Justice Served: The Murder of Dorothea Burke

Murder, She Told

Kristen Seavey

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Stockton Springs, Maine. 1984. On February 11th, 2022, Kirt Damon Sr, stood before a judge at the Waldo County Courthouse facing charges for the 1984 murder of Dorothea Burke. After celebrating her 63rd birthday at her favorite local dive bar, Dorothea Burke went missing. Five days later, her body was found on the side of the road. She'd been bludgeoned to death. Dot's case sat on the Maine Cold Case list for almost 4 decades waiting for this moment her killer would finally be brought to justice. Her case is the most recent success for the Maine State Police Unsolved Homicide Unit, and stands as hope to other families still awaiting their day in court. This is an important update episode, and the story of the road to justice in the case of Dorothea Burke. Episode sources and photos: https://www.murdershetold.com/episodes/dorothea-burke Support the show: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.murdershetold.com/support⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@murdershetoldpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@murdershetold⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠/mstpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠murdershetold.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Murder She Told, true crime stories from Maine, New England, and small town USA.
0:19.4	I'm Kristen Zeevy.
0:21.6	You can connect with me at murdershetold.com or on Instagram at MurderShe Told podcast.
0:30.0	Dorothea Burke was looking forward to the golden years of retirement when her longtime husband,
0:43.9	John Burke, left her out of the blue for another woman.
0:47.6	This just about broke Dorothea, who friends and family called Dott.
0:52.2	Her niece-in-law, Anna, told me previously that to help cope, she sought comfort from friends,
0:58.0	family, and her social life.
1:00.2	Dott was a social woman and loved to have a beer and a cigarette over a good game of cards or cribbage.
1:06.8	Dott liked to have a good time.
1:09.1	Her need for community only doubled when her relationship shattered, forcing her to pick up the pieces and start a new.
1:16.4	She moved in with her sister Pearl to help ease the financial burden of living alone.
1:21.3	Plus, she felt safer living with family.
1:25.2	On June 23, 1984, 63-year-old Dorothea Burke went to two well-loved dive bars in Bucksport, Maine.
1:33.3	Captain Jacks, and Priscilla's, it was her birthday, and she'd spent the day at a family wedding in nearby prospect Maine.
1:41.2	But the night called for her own celebration, and with confetti still in her hair and a pack of bright 100 cigarettes in her purse,
1:49.0	she made an appearance at her favorite watering holes.
1:52.3	Five days later, her body was found at the intersection of muskrat and meadow roads in Stockton Springs,
1:58.8	discarded in a grass ditch, littered with beer cans and cigarette butts.
2:04.5	Dott had been bludgeoned to death.
2:07.2	I covered what little I knew of Dott's story in an episode from June 2021, called Cold Case Arrest,
2:14.0	the 1984 murder of Dorothea Burke.
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