The Murder of Holly Jean Cote (Massachusetts)

Dark Downeast

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

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🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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It was a Saturday night, and she’d just clocked out of work to join a group of friends down the street for drinks at a favorite local watering hole. Later, when Holly Jean Cote left that bar in the early hours of March 4, 1984, she was expected to meet at a friend’s house for a nightcap, but Holly never made it. Since the earliest days of her disappearance, investigators have had a leading theory about what happened when she left the bar and who was involved, but proving it beyond a reasonable doubt is a different story. The suspect might not be going anywhere anytime soon, but for those who know and love Holly, they want the person responsible for her death to be held accountable.

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0:00.0	It was a Saturday night, and she'd just clocked out of work to join a group of friends
0:06.7	down the street for drinks at a favorite local watering hole. Later, when Holly Jean Coat left
0:12.3	that bar in the early hours of March 4, 1984, she was expected to meet up at a friend's
0:18.1	house for a nightcap, but Holly never made it. Since the earliest
0:22.9	days of her disappearance, investigators have had a leading theory about what happened when she left
0:28.4	the bar and who was involved, but proving it beyond a reasonable doubt is a different story.
0:34.6	The suspect might not be going anywhere anytime soon, but for those who know and love
0:39.5	Holly, they want the person responsible for her death to be held accountable. I'm Kylie Lowe,
0:46.1	and this is the case of Holly Jean Coat on Dark Down East. dark down east.
1:06.3	As Saturday night, March 3rd, 1984, spilled over into the early hours of Sunday, March 4th,
1:11.3	28-year-old Holly Jean Coat was finishing up a shift waiting tables at the Mahockey restaurant in South Gardner, Massachusetts, and she was ready to unwind with some friends.
1:17.0	Holly had a six-year-old daughter, and she'd been on her feet all night, so a drink and some
1:22.4	socialization was definitely in order. According to reporting by Jason Pfeiffer and Lisa D. Walsh for the
1:28.5	Worcester, Telegram, and Gazette, Holly hopped in her 1969 Pontiac Tempest and drove about a
1:35.1	half mile away from the restaurant to Mr. D's bar on Central Street in Gardner. She parked in a lot
1:41.6	behind the building and headed inside to join the festivities.
1:50.7	When bartenders at Mr. D's announced last call around 2 a.m., Holly wasn't ready to end the night just yet. According to an Associated Press report in the Affle Daily News, Holly's friend Katie
1:57.0	had invited her and one other person over for a nightcap, and Holly said she'd be there.
2:03.0	Katie waited and waited for Holly and the other person to arrive, the early morning hours
2:07.8	creeping closer to sunrise with each tick of the clock, but they never showed up.
2:13.2	I don't know what went through Katie's head that night.
2:15.8	I don't know if she worried about Holly, or dismissed her absence as a simple change in plans.
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