Dark Downeast

INTRODUCING: Chameleon

Face Plant: The Woman With 1,000 Boyfriends — What's it like to have your image used as the bait in thousands of online romance scams? This is what happened to Janessa Brazil—a cam girl whose image has been hijacked and used to con hundreds, maybe thousands, of lonely people out of hard-earned cash. This is a story of love, lies, and the faces behind a billion-dollar underground industry. Chameleon is a production of Campside Media and Audiochuck. Follow Chameleon on Instagram @chameleonpod [https://www.instagram.com/chameleonpod/?hl=en] 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 Debra Stone (Rhode Island)

For more than forty years, Debra Stone’s murder lingered in the uneasy space between knowing and proving.  An informant came forward early on with a story that, in hindsight, mapped almost every detail of what happened to her, yet the case drifted through the decades. Weighed down by doubt, fear, and a single failed polygraph that stalled momentum.  When investigators finally reopened the file in the 21st century, it wasn’t modern DNA science that brought clarity. The evidence had already been there. What the case needed was the will to look again and confront the truth that should have been acted on long ago. View source material and photos for this episode at: darkdowneast.com/debrastone [https://darkdowneast.com/debrastone]   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] 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.

STILL UNSOLVED: The Murder of John Evers Robinson (Connecticut)

In December of 2024, I shared an episode about a 24-year-old musician whose life was cut short in New Haven, Connecticut in 1990. More than three decades later, the murder of John Evers Robinson remains unsolved and the questions surrounding what happened to him have only grown more complicated with time. I’m bringing this story back because it needs your attention and action in a new way. Here’s John’s sister, Jocelyn Jackson. “It’s been 35 years since a family member picked me up from high school and told me as we drove to the airport that my brother John was dead. I immediately went silent and started crying. When we got to the airport, it was to hug my mom through tears before she got on a plane to fly to New Haven. All I could think was that my big brother wasn’t in the world anymore. That moment left an indelible mark on my perception of the world. That moment was the beginning of my instinct to never stop seeking for justice, to never let the people who did this think they got away with murder.  Those feelings I felt on that day with my family are the eternal repository of energy that I pull from each year as I continue to invite accountability for my brother's brutal unsolved murder. Unfortunately, a lot of families know this feeling. The feeling of decades passing, sometimes even knowing who’s responsible, but never enough evidence to get resolution.  Every year I actively continue the momentum of his case by sharing his story in a new way. This year it’s by starting a petition on change.org to increase the reward money for new leads from witnesses. We know a lot of time has passed, but over the last few years as we’ve talked to John’s friends and visited New Haven, we have experienced how fresh people’s memories are still of John, and of the time that he went missing, and then was found dead.  We believe that there are people out there who know more and can share more than they ever have before. Please come forward and share what you know. The smallest detail combined with other new leads can be what either links all the other information together or alternatively, finally destabilizes the code of silence amongst the co-conspirators that’s been kept for all these years.  Thank you for taking the time to sign this petition. Thank you for helping us keep the momentum strong. It’s heartbreaking to think how much more harm has been caused in these last 35 years by the same people who killed my brother. We believe my brother knew his killers. We finally want to know them, too.” * If you have information regarding the 1990 murder of John Evers Robinson in New Haven, Connecticut, please contact the Connecticut Cold Case Unit at 1 (866) 623-8058 or the New Haven Police Department at 1 (866) 888-8477. * You can sign the petition to increase the reward for new leads in the 1990 unsolved murder of John Evers Robinson here [https://www.change.org/p/increase-the-award-for-new-leads-to-the-1990-unsolved-murder-of-john-evers-robinson]. View source material and photos for this episode at: darkdowneast.com/stillmissing-johneversrobinson [https://darkdowneast.com/stillmissing-johneversrobinson ]   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] 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 Mark Knapp (Vermont)

When Mark Knapp’s routine commute home from work one February night in 1984 ended with his car abandoned and his body at the bottom of an old marble quarry, the shock rippled far beyond one family. What followed was not a straight line from crime to justice. Suspects were quickly identified and charged in connection with Mark’s death, but shifting narratives and fragile witnesses fractured the entire foundation of the case just as the truth came into view. View source material and photos for this episode at: darkdowneast.com/markknapp [https://darkdowneast.com/markknapp]   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] 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 Suspicious Death of Cam Lyman (Rhode Island)

Cam Lyman vanished in the summer of 1987, leaving behind a forty-acre estate, dozens of prizewinning dogs, and a silence that would stretch on for more than a decade.  Friends and family disagreed on whether Cam had walked away or been taken or worse. Meanwhile, millions of dollars in trusts and assets seemed to evaporate. When Cam was finally found, hidden beneath the very ground no one had searched, the mystery didn’t end. It compounded.  While police spoke in hints about suspects, the only charge ever filed had nothing to do with murder. In this case, every lead seems to circle back to the same question: if you follow the money, will it reveal what happened to Cam, or just uncover another carefully buried secret? * If you have information relating to the unsolved case of Cam Lyman, please contact the Hopkinton Police Department at (401) 377-7750. View source material and photos for this episode at: darkdowneast.com/camlyman [https://darkdowneast.com/camlyman]   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] 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.