For almost fifty years, the murders of two people in the tiny northern Vermont village of Hardwick have gone unsolved. The rumors in town ran almost as rampant as the fear, but whether any of the chatter about what happened to the victims is true remains to be seen nearly five decades later. 

• If you have information relating to the 1977 homicides of Joan Gray Rogers or Bernard Ewen, please contact the Vermont State Police. You can text VTIPS to 274637 or submit a tip via the form linked in the description of this episode.
   

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Over 30 years have gone by without answers for the violent death of David Pickett on a quiet New England beach. When an investigation by police failed to get justice, David’s sister decided to seek justice on her own terms… Even if the suspect was her own blood.

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For over 20 years, the Smolinski Family has been searching for their son and brother, Billy, who one afternoon in August of 2004 asked his neighbor to watch his dog and then was never seen again. The case is not without leads or suspects, but the biggest question of all has yet to be answered: Where is Billy? 

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40 years have passed since 14-year-old Terry Duran left her home in Gorham, Maine for some fun on one of the last weekends of summer before she started high school. She told her parents she’d be home Sunday night, but Terry never returned. When her body was discovered weeks later, there was no doubt her death was a homicide, but who would kill this teenage girl and why? 

This case has seen two arrests and one trial. And yet, after four decades, her murder is still unsolved. 

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Investigators who first worked the 1971 homicide case of Natalie Scheublin in Bedford, Massachusetts considered every possible theory for her death – kidnapping for ransom, burglary gone wrong, a random attack in an otherwise quiet community – and yet nothing led police to the truth. For years, Natalie’s family waited for answers until decades later, forensic technology finally identified a suspect.

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When friends Cynthia Kane-Clark and Dawn Shippee both turned up the victims of homicide, one after the other, in the same two month span, investigators were faced with a complex investigation. It’s now been over 20 years since the two women were killed in neighboring Rhode Island towns and police are still looking for answers. 

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When a teenager disappeared from Brattleboro, Vermont, hours before the wind, rain, and damaging floods of a major natural disaster devastated the state, it took days before he was finally reported missing and initial search efforts were hindered by ongoing storm recovery. Now as the case approaches another anniversary in 2024, loved ones are still waiting for the information that could lead them to answers. 

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From the location of her car, to the condition of her body, to the timeline of disappearance until discovery, Krystal Lee Higgins’ sister feels that so much of the case doesn't quite add up to an accidental death. So, we’re peeling back the layers of this case even further with the help of experts. 

If you haven’t already, go back and listen to Part 1 of this story.

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It’s been 20 years since 17-year old Krystal Lee Higgins disappeared from her downeast Maine town only to be found dead a week later. Her death was ruled an accident, but her sister has questioned that ruling since day one. 

This is Part 1 of Krystal's story. Part 2 will be out next week on Dark Downeast.

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During the late 80s and early 90s, multiple women from Hartford, Connecticut were found dead in remote areas of the city and surrounding towns. After identifying a suspect in one of the cases and bringing it all the way to trial, police thought they might have a serial killer on their hands. But all the suspicion in the world was proven false when years later advanced DNA analysis challenged what investigators thought they knew.

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In the last episode of Dark Downeast, you heard the story of Denise Hart and her still unsolved homicide in Vermont. I mentioned in that episode the case of another woman who grew up in the same city and around the same people as Denise. So, that’s the story I’m going to tell you today – the story of a young mother who walked out the door and got into a waiting vehicle with someone she and her family thought they knew, only to have her life end in his hands.

• Check out The Deck episode, Linda "Lulu Ree" Ceasar (9 of Spades, Connecticut), to hear more about Lulu's case. 
   

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