The Life and Death of Amy Lynn Drake Revisited

Murder, She Told

Kristen Seavey

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

2006 - Skowhegan, ME. Amy Drake was only 18-years-old when her body was found by hunters in 2006 in the woods of Norridgewock, Maine, just a few miles from the Skowhegan town line. She’d been missing for a little over a month. Since then, there have been few answers as to what happened to Amy, and her case, although still open 15 years later, sits on a list of 100+ other cold cases in the state of Maine. But this story isn't about a murder. It’s about friendship, nostalgia, and legacy. The things that were, and a butterfly effect of the things that could have been. This is a revisit of the life and death of Amy Lynn Drake. This episode originally aired December 2020. If you have any information on the murder of Amy Drake, please reach out to the Maine Major Crimes Unit Central at (207)624-7076 x9 or ⁠leave a tip⁠. If you or someone you know is struggling with substance abuse, it’s not too late to get help. Call the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Hotline at 1-800-662-HELP or visit ⁠⁠findtreatment.gov⁠⁠ for additional resources. Episode sources and photos: ⁠https://www.murdershetold.com/episodes/amy-lynn-drake⁠ Support the show: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.murdershetold.com/support⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@murdershetoldpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@murdershetold⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠/mstpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠murdershetold.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. This is Kristen and thank you for tuning into Murder She Told.
0:06.0	You are probably wondering why I sound like this and if you have been following along on Instagram
0:12.3	at Murder She Told podcast, you know that I just got COVID. And at the point that I got COVID,
0:18.4	I hadn't recorded this week's episode yet. And here I am with the deepest, strangest voice,
0:25.6	which luckily I have a voice because for a couple days I didn't. So this is a good sign that
0:30.3	it's coming back. But I don't think that I could do the story and the victim and the family that
0:37.0	I've worked with justice by recording an episode sounding like this. So I have decided instead of
0:43.8	skipping a week, which thank you for your patience. This is just the cherry on top of a very busy
0:50.0	and odd month for me. So I really appreciate you. I thought that I would release an episode
0:56.0	that I'll tell you why I'm picking this one. Amy Drake's story still sticks with me.
1:02.0	This episode came out in December of 2020. It was the third episode that I did.
1:07.8	In this case, didn't really have a lot of information available publicly. And then I connected
1:13.9	with her friend Jason and his interview just changed everything for me. For the first time,
1:20.0	I really saw the power of interviewing people close to the victims. In all the articles that I read
1:26.2	about Amy, it was all about her drug use. And I knew that there was more to her than that. And when
1:31.7	I talked to Jason, it just confirmed that for me. And hearing him talk tapped into my own personal
1:37.6	nostalgia and made me connect with Amy in a way that reading the articles didn't and telling her
1:43.8	story just from the articles didn't. Also, this episode last summer was down for a couple of
1:48.6	months and I didn't realize it until someone asked me about it. This is the only episode that has
1:53.3	an original song. And if you heard this episode in December of 2020, it didn't have this song
1:59.9	in it. It had something different. So the song that's in it now is new. And Amy's story deserves
2:06.7	to be heard. So I am releasing one of my personal picks for this week so that I can recover a little
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