On May 20th, 1951, 24-year-old Shirley Kuhlin retrieved a sheet of her favorite stationary.

It was the paper with a red rose embossed in the corner, and she began to write what she hoped would be the message

that would bring her childhood sweetheart her ex-husband back into her life.

The note contained a request.

I want you to come down this weekend, she wrote,

Saturday night around 1030.

Saturday night would be May 26, 1951.

She couldn't have known that when she penned the letter that Saturday night

would become the last night anyone saw her alive. The letter she wrote and

mailed to her ex-husband was a key piece of evidence in the earliest days of the investigation,

but before you jump to conclusions, this isn't a simple case of the husband did it.

In fact, none of these four cases are simple.

This is the beginning of the complex, dark, interwoven stories of Shirley Kulan, Donakimi,

Zinnovia Clegg, and Patricia Wing. I'm Kylie Lowe and this is Dark Down East. Shirley Kuhnnn called Brunswick Maine home and the sprightly attractive friendly woman worked as a waitress at the Bowden Hotel restaurant.

She was also a mom to a little girl named Doreen.

She had gotten pregnant when she was just 17 years old and she had the baby the baby two months after she married the child's father.

He was a Brunswick Air-based repairman named George Dowdswell.

Their marriage did not last, but Shirley always had eyes

for someone else.

When Shirley's childhood sweetheart Guy Fletcher Kuhlin returned from his service overseas,

the romance from their younger days rekindled,

and on January 24, 1945, they were married.

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