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The Murders of Luella Blakeslee and Debra Lee Horn (New Hampshire)

Dark Downeast

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

NH COLD CASES, 1969: Are the cases of Susan Randall, Luella Blakeslee and Debra Lee Horn connected? This episode examines the cases of Luella Blakeslee of Hooksett and Debra Lee Horn of Allenstown. If you haven't listened to The Case of Susan Randall on Dark Downeast, start there.

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0:00.0

As of this episode's original air date, no one has been charged or convicted of any crimes related to the murder of Luella Blakesley and Deborah Lee Horn.

0:10.0

It was early in the evening on July 4th 1969.

0:18.0

The town of Hookset, New Hampshire was amping up for patriotic celebrations, and Luella Maria Blakesley was getting ready for a date.

0:28.2

Luella had been in an on-again, off-again relationship with her boyfriend of three years.

0:34.3

That's who she told her father she was going to see on that pleasantly warm

0:39.2

4th of July night.

0:40.8

George Blakesley wished his daughter well on her way out the door and

0:45.4

she waved goodbye. Luella Blakesley would never return.

0:52.7

But she wasn't the only missing person in the small towns just outside of Manchester, New Hampshire,

0:58.1

in 1969.

1:00.4

Just a few miles down the street from the Blakesley home,

1:03.0

a family was going on six months of searching for their 11-year-old daughter.

1:11.0

What happened to Luella Blakesley and to Deborah Lee Horn?

1:15.0

Could their cases share one critical connection to the murder of Susan Randall two years later. I'm Kylie Lowe and these are the stories of

1:26.7

Luella Blakesley and Deborah Lee Horn on Dark Down East. 29 year old Luella Blakesley moved from Massachusetts to Hookset

1:47.9

New Hampshire to live with her father after her mother passed away.

1:52.1

Luella was intelligent and beautiful.

1:55.8

Her academic career was decorated.

1:58.2

She was valedictorian of her high school.

2:00.6

She studied at Tufts University and at the Sorbonne in Paris.

2:05.0

When she moved to New Hampshire, she got a job as a French teacher at Dairy Field, a private

2:10.2

school in town.

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