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Dark Downeast

The Disappearance of Kitty Wardwell (Maine)

Dark Downeast

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

DEDHAM, MAINE 1983: For nearly three decades, the family of Kitty Collins Wardwell hoped that the whereabouts of their daughter, sister, and mother would be revealed and the secret of what happened to the smart, beautiful Kitty would come out into the light. But they wouldn’t learn the truth about Kitty until someone else passed away 28 years later. You won’t find her name on the Maine State Police Unsolved case list anymore, as cases like Kitty’s are excluded when there is evidence establishing beyond a reasonable doubt that the person responsible is dead, but the death of a key individual is not a true resolution for Kitty Wardwell. Is someone out there, still walking the streets of Maine, holding onto information that could uncover the secret of why Kitty disappeared and the person, or persons, responsible?

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The more I am left speechless that the more I am left speechless that the secrets kept hidden.

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Secrets that span decades and generations, and the lengths that some people

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will go to keep them locked away.

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For nearly three decades, the family of Kitty Collins Wardwell hoped that the whereabouts of their daughter, sister, and mother would be revealed, and the secret of what happened to the smart beautiful kitty would come out into the

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light. But they wouldn't learn the truth about kitty until someone else passed away unexpectedly 28 years later.

0:46.5

You won't find her name on the main state police unsolved case list anymore, as cases like

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kitties are excluded when there is evidence establishing beyond a reasonable

0:56.0

doubt that the person responsible is dead.

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But the death of a key individual is not a true resolution for Kitty Wardwell.

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Is someone out there still walking the streets of Maine, holding on to information that could

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uncover the secret of why Kitty disappeared? on I'm Kylie Lowe and this is the case of Kitty Wardwell on Dark Down East. K Kitty Collins was born to her parents, Forest Collins Senior, and Ruby Collins Dowdy in

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Bangor, Maine on July 1st, 1953. She grew up in Dedham, Maine, a small town

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east of Bangor, historically well known for the 1961 crash of a Cold War airplane on Bald Mountain within town limits.

2:07.0

The fuselage remains on the mountainside, a shredded metal memorial to the two men whose lives were lost in the accident.

2:17.4

Or maybe you're familiar with Lucerne and Maine, a village within the town of Dedham, referred to as a beauty spot of America on the town

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website. It sits on the shores of Phillips Lake, a favorite summer spot for locals and tourists alike.

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Growing up in a small town like Dettum, Maine, no one missed Kitty's undeniable beauty. Beauty in cosmetotyl Beauty was a passion of hers. After graduating from Brewer High School in

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1971, Kitty attended the Finishing Touch Model modeling school in Massachusetts.

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I've seen what appear to be modeling photos of Kitty, posing against a vintage floral wallpaper backdrop in a woman's suit with a jacket slung over her shoulder.

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Her dark hair blown out in that perfect 70s way.

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In the midst of pursuing her modeling dreams, Kitty Collins was married, becoming Kitty Wardwell, and had a son.

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She worked as a cosmetologist and at a few retail shops around the Bangor area, sticking close to her hometown and family.

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