Hey Dark Down Easters, it's Kiley. I'm popping on to the podcast today for a special mini episode. Every now and then when I start researching cold cases I run into a brick wall

whether it's lack of evidence, limited archived media coverage, scarce public info,

emails and messages to sources with no reply.

Even after hours of digging into a case, sometimes there just isn't enough information out there for a full episode.

But that doesn't mean these cases aren't worth covering.

I actually find it to be the total opposite. If information is limited, that makes it all the more critical to shine a light on the names and the stories of these victims.

So I've decided that when I do encounter these cases,

I will bring them to Dark Down East as short special release episodes.

This is the first.

February 16, 2021, marks 30 years since two beloved figures of the Portsmouth New Hampshire community were found dead.

Victims of an attack in their own home.

This is the case of Stella Bolton and James J.J. Moore. more.

68 year old Stella Bolton moved to the United States from Trinidad where she was born. Reports say she was known as everyone's grandmother.

Stella loved to make cookies for the kids in her neighborhood.

She played bingo and spent lots of time cooking at her home, a small four-bedroom bungalow at 74 Rock Hill

Avenue in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, a community known at the time as Mariner's Village. Stella lived with her longtime roommate, 73-year-old James J.J.

was retired from Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and was a veteran of Three Wars.

In his retirement, he was known to sit out on the front porch of that bungalow, crack a beer,

and relax.

He had a thing for cars, too. His neighbors told reporters he bought a new car almost every year.

According to everything I read, Stella and J.J. were nothing more than roommates and friends.

They had a relationship built on looking out for one another.

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