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Sep 2023
38m 18s

The Murders of David Nixon & Steven Ray ...

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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 Kennebunkport, Maine for one more night. That phone call was the last contact David ever had with his family. Sometime after he put the phone back on the hook, David was killed just steps from the house on Goose Rocks Beach.

The investigation into the murder of David J. Nixon would span the entire eastern seaboard and even extend into Canada before the suspect was finally apprehended. His time on the lam would result in a second violent homicide. 

View source material and photos for this episode at darkdowneast.com/davidjnixon

 

Dark Downeast is an audiochuck and Kylie Media production hosted by Kylie Low.

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