The Suspicious Death of Barbara Ann Ripley (Maine)
It was early afternoon of September 29, 1971 and 11-year old Barbara Ann Ripley should’ve been getting off the bus at home in North Yarmouth, Maine like she did every Wednesday. When she didn’t walk t...
18 Jan 202451min
The Disappearance of Nadine Mendonça (Massachusetts)
When 25-year old Nadine Mendonça went to her favorite hang out in downtown Fall River, Massachusetts for a casual night out, neither she nor her family could’ve expected it would end the way it did. T...
11 Jan 202438min
The Murder of Matthew Margolies (Connecticut)
When 13-year old Matthew Margolies didn’t come home for supper on the night of August 31, 1984, police in Greenwich, Connecticut launched a full scale search scouring the Pemberwick woods and waters o...
4 Jan 202441min
The Murder of Jon Pownall (Maine)
MAINE, 1973: Just months into production of a new and exciting project, film director Jon Pownall was found dead at his Monument Square office in Portland, Maine. Why would anyone want to kill him? As...
25 Sep 202359min
UPDATE: The Murders of David Nixon & Steven Ray Johnson (Maine)
A special update to this week’s episode, Murder on Goose Rocks Beach, covering the cases of David J. Nixon and Steven Ray Johnson. View source material and photos for this episode at darkdowneast.com/...
23 Sep 20232min
The Murders of David Nixon & Steven Ray Johnson (Maine)
MAINE, 1987: On the night of June 8, 1987, David Nixon had just hung up the phone with his father. He called back home to let his folks know that he was staying over at their family beach house in Ken...
18 Sep 202338min
The Murder of Jimmy Stone (Connecticut)
CONNECTICUT, 2018: On the night of May 18, 2018, 36-year old James “Jimmy” Stone Jr. was loading up his belongings from the trailer where he once lived on the Golden Hill Paugussett Reservation in Col...
11 Sep 202333min
The Murder of Patricia Moreno (Massachusetts)
MASSACHUSETTS, 1991: On July 20th, 1991, 17-year-old Patricia Moreno sat on the fire escape at her foster family’s apartment building. She often used the fire escape for solace – the apartment was cro...
28 Aug 202333min
