Dark Downeast: Maine and New England's True Crime Podcast
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It's a cold hard fact: crime does not leave any region untouched. Not even the postcard landscape of New England. Dark Down East digs into the decades-old and modern-day cases that prickle the history of vacation land and beyond.

The unsolved homicides, undetermined deaths, unexplained disappearances, and other dark stories of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.

I'm Kylie Lowe, an investigative journalist by education, a storyteller by nature, and a born and raised Mainer. I've got bean boots sitting by the front door year-round, my grandfather was a lobster fisherman, and local vernacular still creeps into my conversations. I'm wicked proud of where I'm from, and I created Dark Down East to tell local stories in a way that only a local can tell them.

I get straight to the story with a mix of narrated episodes and documentary-style production featuring interviews with surviving family and friends, and insight on the investigations from detectives and sources who know these cases best. The confetti was thrown at the wedding reception. We feel that it connects scenes together and suspects together. Let's find a reason to get a search warrant, you know, and search the basement. It's quite possible that's where she is.

This is heart-centered, ethical, true crime, bringing light to stories you're not hearing on other podcasts. It's my mission to honor the legacy of the humans at the heart of each story and bring new attention to the cases still awaiting justice. I just want to know what happened. I just want to know. I just want to know, like, after 15 years of imagining all these horrific things, I just, I just want to know truth. That's it.

My dad didn't deserve his death and he doesn't deserve for his case to go unsolved. He was a good person. I mean, I wanted him to be able to be at peace. I will never give up. As long as I'm breathing, I will never give up trying to find him. Something I've learned growing up in Maine. You don't have to be from New England to have a connection to this place.

So whether you're a local or from away, as we say, follow and listen to Dark Down East wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Kylie Lowe, and this is Dark Down East.