Dark Downeast

The Suspicious Death of Nicole Parsons-Bucki (Rhode Island)

On a morning when the country’s attention was fixed on unimaginable tragedy, a Rhode Island family was learning that someone they loved was gone. In the hours before Nic

The Murder of Michael Cochran (Maine)

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The Disappearance of Melanie Melanson (Massachusetts)

In a small New England city, a teenager disappeared after a night in the woods, and almost immediately, the story of what happened fractured.The last people known to be w

The Murder of Judith Whitney (New Hampshire)

There are cases that frustrate you because the evidence is thin. And then there are cases where the warning signs seem to be everywhere, but the system still can’t quite

The Disappearance of Edward Sprenkle Dubbs Jr. (Connecticut)

Some people disappear from a place you can picture right away: a house, a road, a parking lot, a stretch of woods. But in the case of Edward Sprenkle Dubbs Jr., he seems

The Disappearance of Dr. Margaret Kilcoyne (Massachusetts)

Sometimes, on an island, the only witness is the water. In January of 1980, a brilliant Columbia doctor went to her home on Nantucket’s remote east end carrying the weig

UNSOLVED: The Disappearance of Ryan Blagojevic (Maine)

When someone has been missing for more than thirteen years, it can start to feel from the outside like the story has stopped moving. Like whatever answers existed back th

The Murder of Victoria Cushman (Rhode Island)

Victoria Cushman was just 29 years old when she was found murdered inside her Warwick, Rhode Island apartment, just steps from the sporting goods store where she worked.

The Murder of Trish Haynes (New Hampshire)

In the summer of 2018, Trish Haynes disappeared from New Hampshire. Or at least, that’s what the public knew. Investigators searched a rural property, then quietly recove

The Murder of Valerie Tieman (Maine)

In 2016, the disappearance of Valerie Tieman became one of the most talked-about cases in Maine in the last decade. At first, there was room for hope, and maybe even a ve

The Murder of Martha Brailsford (Massachusetts)

On a Friday afternoon in July of 1991, Martha Brailsford told friends she was going sailing. In coastal Massachusetts at what is often the peak of summer heat and humidi

The Murder of Estella Brantley (Connecticut)

Estella Brantley’s murder should have been urgent from the beginning. She was found in one of Bridgeport’s most visible public places, around witnesses who may have hear

The Murder of Rose Marie Moniz (Massachusetts)

Sometimes, a case can have evidence, a suspect, and a theory investigators believe explains what happened yet a family is still left without the ending they waited decade

The Murder of Pamela Brown (Vermont)

On a summer weekend in 1982, Barre, Vermont was crowded with music, traffic, and thousands of people moving through town for an annual festival. Somewhere in that noise,

The Murder of Kathleen Flynn (Connecticut)

For nearly 40 years, Kathleen Flynn’s murder has haunted Norwalk, Connecticut. She was 11 years old, newly in middle school, walking home on a familiar path when she was

INTRODUCING: CounterClock Season 8

In February 2008, six women were held hostage in a women’s clothing store in Tinley Park, Illinois.. Rhoda McFarland, Carrie Hudek Chiuso, Connie Woolfolk, Sarah Szafrans

The Disappearance of Patrick Merrill (New Hampshire)

One spring evening in 1987, a college student got into a green car in Plymouth, New Hampshire and vanished. His friends believed he was coming back. His family knew he w

The Suspicious Death of Phil Williams Jr. (Maine)

For more than 30 years, Pam Williams believed she knew how her brother died. She was told it was a medical event. The kind of tragedy no one could have stopped. She carri

The Murder of Carol Ann Barlow (Rhode Island)

Some cases appear straightforward at first glance. A late-night crash on a quiet road, a damaged car, and a victim who doesn’t survive. It is the kind of situation people

The Murder of Christine Hurlburt (Massachusetts)

It started like so many Saturday nights at Mountain Park – music, crowded dance floors, and teenagers trying to stretch the night a little longer before heading home. But