In the spring of 2002, several urgent 911 calls came into the Stonington, Connecticut

Police Department from the same caller just two days apart. First, there was a report of a violent

kidnapping, and then the untimely death of the very same victim.

When investigators arrived at the scene of Leslie Buck's suspicious death,

fresh off the arrest of the person who kidnapped her,

the circumstances didn't quite add up.

In the days ahead, questions about what happened to Leslie would grow more complex and far more unsettling.

What began as a shocking crime would soon spiral into a mystery with far more questions than answers.

I'm Kylie Lowe and this is the case of Leslie Buck on Dark Down East.

When Charles Buck walked into his home at 77 Mason's Island Road in Mystic, Connecticut,

on the night of May 2nd, 2002,

he expected to find his wife, 57-year-old Leslie Buck,

home already.

According to court records,

Leslie was at an Alpha Delta Kappa meeting earlier in the night,

which was an honorary sorority for teachers.

Leslie was a long-time second grade teacher at Deans Mill School in Stonington.

The meeting was supposed to end at 8.15, and Charles, who I'm going to call Charlie from

here on out, he knew that Leslie planned to stop into her mother's house on the way home

to drop off a piece of cake she'd saved from the meeting.

But it was almost 10.30 p.m. and Leslie still wasn't back. The first call Charlie made that night

was to his mother-in-law to see if Leslie was still at her house. Not finding her there, he called a

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