The first email I received from Kennebunk Police Detective Steve Borst was brief.

Quote, I have a cold case, missing child case from 1964 would appreciate the chance to talk to you about it

the year and the town got my attention.

I've been wanting to cover a specific Kennebunk case from 1964 since I started this podcast.

If my assumption was correct, the detective was writing to me about that very same case, the oldest one on the main state police unsolved missing persons list.

I emailed back, would this be the... missing persons list.

I emailed back, would this be the Robert Desmond case by chance?

He responded promptly, quote,

it would be the Desmond case, end quote.

Detective Steve Borsse of the Kennebunk Police Department

is reigniting the decades-old investigation

for a little boy nearly forgotten.

11 year old Robert Bobby Desmond went missing in 1964,

and he is still missing to this day.

Through interviews with surviving family members, limited archival news sources, and other investigative

resources, Detective Borsd is learning more about the life of Bobby

Desmond and what could have happened to him all those years ago.

He hopes that by sharing Bobby's story, someone somewhere, will come forward with the one piece of information that inches this case closer to closure than it's ever been.

I'm Kylie Lowe and this is the case of Robert Bobby Desmond on Dark Down East. dark down east.

This episode contains descriptions of child abuse. Please listen with care.

At the time of this episode's original release date in September of 2022,

no one has been charged or convicted of any crimes

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