It seemed to be a typical November morning.

Chilly and somewhat gray get peaceful as New England autumn morning so often are.

It was around 8 a.m. New England autumn mornings so often are.

It was around 8 a.m. Betty Blanchette brewed a pot of coffee and shuffled over to the kitchen

table, a yawn escaping as she sat down. She scanned the day's paper and took a bite of toast

before movement just outside the window caught her eye. Betty glanced up to a

familiar scene. Eight-year-old Tammy Lynn Balanger came to the street

corner, looked both ways, and was on her way, skipping across the street headed to

school. Betty watched for a moment feeling the calm of their quiet

small town the feeling of knowing your neighbors by name and most of their family.

Exeter New Hampshire in 19 and most of their family.

Exeter, New Hampshire in 1984 was home to roughly 13,000 people, a close-knit community built on the banks of the Exeter River.

It was an ideal spot for families looking for comfort, shared values,

and the assurance that their kids could safely walk alone to school. But what Betty didn't know that morning, what no one in the

sleepy sea coast town could know, was that there was someone among them who

threatened that very sense of safety they took for granted.

I'm Kylie Lowe and this is the still unsolved disappearance of Tammy Lynn Belanger on Dark Down East. Tammy is described by those who knew her as a typical 8 year old. She loved

school and was doing well in the third grade getting A's and B's. She is very punctual, her dad, Nelson Belanger said in a 1984

Boston Globe article. Quote, she gets up early and has breakfast and goes to school right when she should at 8."

Tammy had been taking the same route to school since the first grade and her schedule was predictable by that point.

So on the afternoon of November 13th, 1984, when Tammy didn't arrive home by 330 her usual time her parents Nelson and Patricia were somewhat

worried. Patricia called Lincoln Street School to see if her daughter

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