January 6th, 1983 was a cold Thursday in the small town of Thayette, Maine.

It was just a few days into the new year and Maine's temperatures hovered below freezing.

The 800 residents of the town were slowly beginning their recovery from holiday festivities

with friends and family across Maine and beyond and settling back into their work schedules

after some deserved time off. That evening Ted Flag was returning home to his

wife Judith Flag and their one-year-old son. He had worked a

double shift along 16 hours at one of the mills in the area. Today, most of these

mills are closed, but driving by the river that used to power the cogs of huge

machines, you can still see the bones of the sites remaining.

Working long hours at the mill was part of Ted Flag's typical routine and he looked forward to coming home to his family each night.

But when he returned home on that cold day in January 1983, Ted was not warmly greeted by his wife as usual.

Instead, he found 23-year-old Judith, dead, murdered. Evidence was scattered around the house, bootprints in the

freshly fallen snow. Suspicion was cast and stories perpetuated

throughout the small town of Fayette, but it would take over two decades

to bring this cold case to a close.

I'm Kylie Lowe and this is the case of Judith Flag on Dark Down East. Judith L. Flag, better known as Judy, was born near Fayette, Maine in January of 1960.

In the winter of 1983, she had just turned 23 years old.

Judy spent her childhood, formative years, and all of her young adult life in the area of Fayette, about a half an hour drive west of Augusta, means capital city.

During her teenage years, Judy had attended the local high school, J High School, and had successfully graduated in 1978.

According to Judy's high school yearbook, she was very involved in her high school community.

She participated in multiple clubs and athletic groups during her time in high school,

including the field hockey team, the ski team, and the cheer team.

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