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Today: #142 in True Crime, Australia on our combined chart.

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Journalist Kylie Low covers unsolved deaths and disappearances in Maine and the rest of New England, usually with interviews from the families and investigators involved.

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Ranking history · Australia

Latest daily rankings: Oct 21. New rankings will appear after the next update.

Position on the True Crime, Australia combined chart over the last 7 days. Toggle platforms to compare their positions. Lower rank numbers are better.

#77#96#115#133#152Chart rankOct 17Oct 19Oct 21#142
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DateCombined RankApple PodcastsCastbox
Oct 21#142#125—
Oct 20#140#130#100
Oct 19#117#99#85
Oct 18#110#93#72
Oct 17#94#75#68
Oct 16#87#66#87

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About the show

Dark Downeast: Maine and New England's True Crime Podcast digs into the decades-old and modern day cases that prickle the history of Vacationland and beyond – the unsolved homicides, undetermined deaths, unexplained disappearances and other dark stories of New England. Investigative journalist and storyteller Kylie Low gets straight to the story with a mix of narrated episodes and documentary style production featuring interviews with surviving family and friends and insight on the investigations from detectives and sources who know these cases best. This is heart-centered, ethical true crime, bringing light to stories you’re not hearing on other podcasts. It is Dark Downeast's mission to honor the legacy of the humans at the heart of each story and bring new attention to the cases still awaiting justice.