For almost fifty years, the murders of two people in the tiny northern Vermont village of Hardwick have gone unsolved.

Over 30 years have gone by without answers for the violent death of David Pickett on a quiet New England beach.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

During the late 80s and early 90s, multiple women from Hartford, Connecticut were found dead in remote areas of the city and surrounding towns.

Previously on Dark Downeast, you heard the story of Denise Hart and her still unsolved homicide in Vermont.

Whenever Denise Lynette Hart was away from her young son, she called home every day, multiple times a day to check on him.