by Kylie Low | Apr 5, 2021 | Episode
Young Harold Turnbull pressed his face against the front porch windows of his home, a modest dwelling on the outer boundary of Otter Creek, Maine. It was just after 4 o’clock in the afternoon on August 4, 1916. The front door was locked as he’d left it, though the key...
by Kylie Low | Mar 29, 2021 | Episode
On May 20, 1951, 24-year old Shirley Coolen retrieved a sheet of her favorite stationary, the paper with a red rose embossed in the left corner, and began to write what she hoped would be the message that would bring her childhood sweetheart, her ex-husband, back into...
by Kylie Low | Mar 22, 2021 | Episode
The bloodhound’s nose sniffed at the ground with furious concentration, tracing a path from the Wing’s kitchen and out the back door of their home on Church Street in Oakland, Maine. His handler shuffled hastily behind to keep up with the canine’s fervent pace. But...
by Kylie Low | Mar 15, 2021 | Episode
It was the summer before her senior year at Bryant University and 21-year old Mainer Kayleigh Ballantyne was getting a taste of city life and living on her own terms. She was working at night, had an internship during the day, and living with her best friends in...
by Kylie Low | Mar 8, 2021 | Episode
I created Dark Downeast to tell the true crime cases and mysteries prickling New England’s history that maybe you’ve never heard of, either because they’ve simply faded into time, or maybe they’re kept hush-hush so as not to taint the reputation of a small town. This...
by Kylie Low | Feb 22, 2021 | Episode
On Sunday, August 9, 1970, Mary Catherine Olenchuk was at the beach with her family, just down the street from their summer home on Israel Head Road in Ogunquit, Maine. Mary was 13-years old and the youngest of three girls. Ogunquit is among Maine’s many popular...
