When the daughter of wealthy real estate developer John Chocolace walked into her father's

Connecticut home one morning in December of 2013, it's set into motion a long-term investigation of not one but two suspicious deaths in the same family within a three-year span

Investigators had a prime suspect for the murder of John Chocolus from the beginning,

but it wasn't until another member of the family disappeared under mysterious circumstances that the identity of that suspect was revealed.

I started looking into this story a few weeks ago.

I actually had no plans to cover it. I just found myself skimming articles and learning about the key events in the case like I tend to do with active and ongoing investigations in New England.

But I found myself spending more and more time reading articles

and seeking out original source material and digging deeper into the lives of

the humans at the center of the case.

I couldn't stop because around every corner was a new detail that only made me want to know

more. I'm Kylie Lowe and this is a deep dive into the unsolved

of John Chocolis and the suspicious death of Linda Carmen, part one on Dark Down East. It was the morning of December 20th, 2013, when Elaine Chocolis pulled into the driveway of the modest single-story home on Overlook Drive in Windsor, Connecticut.

It had been a trying few weeks for the chocolaces.

Elaine's mother, Rita, passed away from a battle with cancer in November,

and everyone was navigating their new reality without the matriarch of their family.

Rita and her husband, 87 year old John Chocolis, were quite the fixtures in their local community,

both in Windsor and in West. were quite the fixtures in their local community,

both in Windsor and in Westchesterfield, New Hampshire,

where they'd built a massive three-story home

of over 15,000 square feet

on 88 sprawling acres.

Everyone who crossed paths with a couple knew two things about John and Rita,

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