Young Harold Turnbull pressed his face against the front porch windows of his home, a modest dwelling on the outer boundary of Otter Creek, Maine.

It was just after 4 o'clock in the afternoon on August 4, 1916.

The front door was locked as he'd left it, though the key that he and his seven siblings always kept hidden in a tree was missing.

Without a key, he tested the window, and the sound of wood on wood made him wince as it opened.

Harold clamored through the small opening.

The missing key was just the first warning that something was off.

The scene inside was all the more alarming.

Broken glass from a lamp chimney pebbled the floor. In the center of the kitchen was a saucer-sized pool of what appeared to be blood.

His mother's white apron lay on a chair in a crumpled mess, covered in deep red stains.

Murder will out. That's what they used to say. In this case, the saying was proven true, though not without

a cunning scheme to push the prime suspect to the precipice of confession. I'm Kylie Lowe and this is the case of Emma J. Turnbull on Dark

Down East. Otter Creek is a small village on Mount Desert Island, settled in a valley between Cadillac

Mountain and Door Mountain, today completely surrounded by the famous Acadia National Park.

Passamiquati and Penob Scott people

fished the waters of Otter Cove

and clammed along its shores

long before Samuel Des Champlain

claimed it for himself and settlers to do the exact same thing in the 1600s.

Over a 200-year span, more settlers seized the Wabonaki land we now know as Mount Desert Island, and it became

a fishing town with a bustling, working waterfront in the 1800s. This was also the earliest era of the

early earliest era of rusticators, the folks from away who began to form a community of seasonal

summer residents, many of them wealthy and famous.

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