My dad didn't deserve his death and he doesn't deserve for his case to go unsolved.

He was a good person.

And I wanted him to be able to be at peace.

Help us put him to rest.

Jessica Zerniki Holmes left work on the night of September 24th, 2015

to find her phone flooded with missed calls and messages.

When she was finally able to call her family member back,

they delivered shocking news about her father.

58-year-old Kenneth Zernike was found dead inside his burning home in Caribou,

Maine. Two days later, his death was ruled a homicide.

Jess reached out to me because after nearly seven years,

her father's case remains unsolved, with little public information available, even to family members.

She wrote in that first email,

I understand it makes it hard to cover a case with little to no information, but I am hoping

to get this out there as much and as often as possible.

I miss my dad. That is why I started this show. No matter the amount of public information on a case,

these stories need and deserve attention.

I'm Kylie Lowe, and here is Jess Zernicky Holmes

to tell the story of her father, Kenneth Zernickyke on Dark Down East. Kenneth Zernickei was born at Loring Air Force Base in limestone Maine on the ancestral land of the Mick Mac Nation.

Loring is no longer an active base. It closed down in 1994 and was later redeveloped as an industrial and aviation park.

If you know Arustic County though, you undoubtedly know the Loring Base,

whether it be from family members or friends who lived and worked there. the

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