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Dark Downeast

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Dark Downeast: Maine and New England's True Crime Podcast digs into the decades-old and modern day cases that prickle the history of Vacationland and beyond – the unsolved homicides, undetermined deaths, unexplained disappearances and other dark stories of New England. Investigative journalist and storyteller Kylie Low gets 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. This is heart-centered, ethical true…

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Dark Downeast examines the 2006 murder of Michelle Gardner-Quinn, a Vermont college student who was killed after asking a stranger to borrow a phone. The episode frames this as more than a solved-case recap, positioning the narrative around systemic failures: the perpetrator had a documented history of violent red…

Worth it if you prefer true crime that honors victims through legacy and accountability rather than sensationalism, and you value environmental causes.

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