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The Suspicious Deaths of Janet & Stephen Dow (New Hampshire)

2023/5/1
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叙述者：1982年12月10日，Janet Dow和她的儿子Stephen Dow在自家附近发生车祸，车辆起火，两人死亡。现场目击者Roland Gooch和John Sperling发现火势很大，但车损轻微，怀疑案情蹊跷。此后40年间，案件经历多次调查，真相扑朔迷离。Janet Dow曾是邮递员，有过两次婚姻，Stephen Dow是她的第一个儿子，热爱汽车，与继父Richard Dow关系紧张，与母亲和生父关系良好。 Richard Dow曾是新罕布什尔州警，后成为镇上的警察局长，他提供的证词是最初调查的主要依据。他声称Janet和Stephen因为Stephen的汽车和上学问题发生争吵，车后座放有汽油桶和水泥块，争吵中Janet失控撞车，水泥块和汽油桶导致起火。警方采纳了这一说法，认定这是一起意外事故，没有进行尸检，车辆也被销毁。 11年后，Richard Dow的前女友Karen Safian向警方提供了信息，称Richard Dow曾向她承认杀害了Janet和Stephen Dow，并伪造了车祸现场。Karen Safian的指控引发了第二次调查，但进展缓慢，她认为警方试图掩盖真相。 事故专家Thomas Bohan对车祸进行了重演，结果表明车祸不太可能导致起火。尽管有新的证据，但案件仍然没有进展，警方表示没有足够的证据起诉Richard Dow。 家属和立法者要求重新调查此案，Rennie Cushing议员还提出了一项法案，取消了与谋杀相关的罪行的追诉时效。但案件最终仍然没有新的结论。Richard Dow于2012年去世，真相可能永远无法揭晓。 Kylie Lowe: 本集讲述Janet和Stephen Dow神秘死亡的案件，案件疑点重重，真相至今未明。

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The car accident involving Janet and Stephen Dow in 1982 was initially believed to be an accident, but witnesses and subsequent investigations raised suspicions of foul play.

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NEW HAMPSHIRE, 1982: On December 10, 1982, a car sat in a ditch engulfed in a furious blaze. Janet Dow and her son, Stephen Dow, were inside that vehicle that appeared to have skidded off the road just 500 feet from their own home. They were deceased, but the cause of their deaths – whether from the seemingly gentle car crash, the wild flames, or something else – was not clear. What was clear to the first witnesses on the scene was that there must be more to what they were seeing.

Over the next forty years and across multiple investigations, the truth of the suspicious deaths of Janet and Stephen Dow was hotly debated. Was it truly an accident or was the fire hiding evidence of a double homicide?

 

View source material and photos for this episode at darkdowneast.com/janetstephendow)

 

Dark Downeast is an audiochuck and Kylie Media production hosted by Kylie Low.