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Dark Downeast

SOLVED: Janet Brochu & Geraldine Ann Finn (Maine)

Dark Downeast

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

MURDER & COLD CASE ARREST: You’ve heard pieces of Geraldine Ann Finn’s story on Dark Downeast before. Her case seemed undoubtedly linked to an over 3-decades old cold case that I covered on the show in January of this year. It’s time to tell Geraldine's whole story. Plus, in a special interview with Lt. Jeffery Love, commanding officer of the Maine State Police Major Crimes Unit, you’ll hear an update on the case of Janet Brochu, and I ask why it took 34 years to arrest Gerald Goodale for her murderView source material and photos for this episode at darkdowneast.comFollow @darkdowneast on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTokTo suggest a case, email [email protected] Dark Downeast on Buy Me a CoffeeShop Dark Downeast merch at darkdowneast.com/shop

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She should have been home by now.

0:05.0

Sarah Finn's daughter Geraldine Ann Finn was 23 years old, an adult woman with her own life, but she always came back when she said she

0:16.8

would. Geraldine always called her mother, sometimes twice a night, even if she was working or going out, but it was getting later and later,

0:28.0

and Geraldine hadn't called, and she still wasn't home.

0:33.0

You've heard pieces of Geraldine Ann Finn's story on Dark Down East before.

0:39.0

Her case seemed undoubtedly linked to an over three decades old cold case that I covered on the show

0:45.8

in January of this year. Well, it was a cold case. And it turns out my hunch about the connection was right. In May

0:57.6

2021, Maine State Police announced they'd made an arrest in the 1987 murder of Janet Broshoo.

1:05.0

And the man they charged with her killing was already serving time for the murder of Geraldine and Finn.

1:12.0

Two women from Central Maine, both in their 20s, both lives

1:18.3

stolen, with all signs pointing back to the very same suspect.

1:26.0

It's time to tell Geraldine Ann Finn's whole story.

1:30.6

Plus, in a special interview with Lieutenant Jeffrey Love, commanding officer of the main state

1:36.2

police major crimes unit, you'll hear an update on the case of Janet Broshoo.

1:42.3

And I ask him, why it took 34 years to arrest Gerald Goodale

1:48.1

for her murder. I'm Kylie Lowe and this is Dark Down East. Geraldine Finn came from a big, big family. She was one of 11 kids. Her parents, William and Sarah, along with

2:17.2

several of the Finn children moved to Scowhegan, Maine from Massachusetts in

2:22.0

1987.

2:23.6

They settled into Maine life on the quiet dead end St. James Street.

2:28.6

Scowhegan is a small Somerset County town, not quite Western Maine, but smack dab in the middle of the

2:37.1

Central Maine region I grew up in. The land was first inhabited by the indigenous Abenaki people who gave the area its name, meaning watching place for fish.

2:48.0

The Skauhegan falls on the Kennebeck River before they were replaced by the Weston Dam provided an abundance

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