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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 version of the story where Valerie had simply walked away from a life that had become too painful.  Her husband, Luc Tieman, was a wounded military veteran, a man whose service and struggles shaped how people first understood him. But as investigators followed the trail from a parking lot to a wooded property in central Maine, the story Luc told evolved. Each new version raised a darker question: what happened to Valerie, and why were the people who loved her the last to know she was gone? If you or someone you love is experiencing domestic violence, support is available. Visit the hotline.org [http://hotline.org] or contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline 24/7 at 1-800-799-SAFE. You can also text START to 88788, to speak with someone who can help you make a safe plan. View source material and photos for this episode at: https://darkdowneast.com/valerietieman [https://darkdowneast.com/valerietieman]   Dark Downeast is an Audiochuck and Kylie Media production hosted by Kylie Low. * Follow @darkdowneast on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/darkdowneast/], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/darkdowneast], and TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@darkdowneast] * To suggest a case visit darkdowneast.com/submit-case [http://darkdowneast.com/submit-case] Did you know you can listen to Dark Downeast ad-free? Join the Crime Junkie Fan Club! Visit https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/fanclub/ [https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/fanclub/] to view the current membership options and policies. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com [https://pcm.adswizz.com] for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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 humidity, that wasn’t unusual. Martha knew the water, and in Salem Willows, boats were part of the everyday landscape. There was no reason to think a simple afternoon sail would become anything else. But when Martha didn’t come home that night, the search for her would expose a man whose stories kept changing, a familiar coastline that suddenly felt unknowable, and a truth hidden somewhere beyond the shoreline. View source material and photos for this episode at: https://darkdowneast.com/marthabrailsford [https://darkdowneast.com/marthabrailsford]   Dark Downeast is an Audiochuck and Kylie Media production hosted by Kylie Low. * Follow @darkdowneast on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/darkdowneast/], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/darkdowneast], and TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@darkdowneast] * To suggest a case visit darkdowneast.com/submit-case [http://darkdowneast.com/submit-case] Did you know you can listen to Dark Downeast ad-free? Join the Crime Junkie Fan Club! Visit https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/fanclub/ [https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/fanclub/] to view the current membership options and policies. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com [https://pcm.adswizz.com] for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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 heard her final moments, with evidence that would one day matter more than anyone could have known when it was first collected. But for years, Estella’s case stayed unresolved, folded into a larger city-wide pattern of deadly attacks on women and families left wondering whether anyone was really fighting for them. Then, decades later, science brought the case back to life. But Estella’s family was still left asking whether DNA told the whole story. View source material and photos for this episode at: https://darkdowneast.com/estellabrantley [https://darkdowneast.com/estellabrantley]   Dark Downeast is an Audiochuck and Kylie Media production hosted by Kylie Low. * Follow @darkdowneast on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/darkdowneast/], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/darkdowneast], and TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@darkdowneast] * To suggest a case visit darkdowneast.com/submit-case [http://darkdowneast.com/submit-case] Did you know you can listen to Dark Downeast ad-free? Join the Crime Junkie Fan Club! Visit https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/fanclub/ [https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/fanclub/] to view the current membership options and policies. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com [https://pcm.adswizz.com] for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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 decades to hear.  Grief and justice don’t always move at the same pace. Grief looks for truth, meaning, and someone to answer for what was taken. The justice system looks for proof, and proof has to survive questions, strategy, doubt, and twelve separate minds in a jury room.  This is a case about a woman killed inside the place where she should have been safest, a family fractured by loss and suspicion, and what happens when an answer feels clear to the people who loved her, but the verdict says something else. View source material and photos for this episode at: https://darkdowneast.com/rosemariemoniz [https://darkdowneast.com/rosemariemoniz]   Dark Downeast is an Audiochuck and Kylie Media production hosted by Kylie Low. * Follow @darkdowneast on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/darkdowneast/], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/darkdowneast], and TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@darkdowneast] * To suggest a case visit darkdowneast.com/submit-case [http://darkdowneast.com/submit-case] Did you know you can listen to Dark Downeast ad-free? Join the Crime Junkie Fan Club! Visit https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/fanclub/ [https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/fanclub/] to view the current membership options and policies. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com [https://pcm.adswizz.com] for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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, an 18-year-old woman disappeared. In the days that followed, investigators tried to make sense of what little they had: fragments of sightings, possible suspects, conflicting leads, and tests that seemed to narrow the field. But the case did not move cleanly from suspicion to arrest. Decades later, the same investigation that was first shaped by uncertainty was reopened by science. And this time, the evidence pointed back to someone investigators had once left behind. View source material and photos for this episode at: https://darkdowneast.com/pamelabrown [https://darkdowneast.com/pamelabrown]   Dark Downeast is an Audiochuck and Kylie Media production hosted by Kylie Low. * Follow @darkdowneast on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/darkdowneast/], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/darkdowneast], and TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@darkdowneast] * To suggest a case visit darkdowneast.com/submit-case [http://darkdowneast.com/submit-case] Did you know you can listen to Dark Downeast ad-free? Join the Crime Junkie Fan Club! Visit https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/fanclub/ [https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/fanclub/] to view the current membership options and policies. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com [https://pcm.adswizz.com] for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.