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Dec 2024
33m 59s

The Murder of Howard Hoxie (Massachusett...

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He was an 80-year-old fruit farmer who had resurrected a local apple orchard for the enjoyment of his entire community, but in the late fall of 1999, the farmstead became the unexpected epicenter of a terrible tragedy that remains unsolved today.

  • If you have information relating to the unsolved 1999 murder of Howard Hoxie in Whately, Massachusetts, please call the Whately Police Department’s non-emergency dispatch phone line at (413) 625-8200 or text ‘MSPTIPS’ to the Massachusetts State Police tip line at 226787.
     

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

 

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

 

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