Crackling fire engulfed the 1982 Sob 900, melting the car's plastic pieces and scorching its metal shell.

The flames fed off the fuel that the car provided, roaring and warming up the cold early

hours of the morning. It was December 10, 1982, and the town of Thornton, New Hampshire was cold and quiet.

The hissing of the fire, the only sound breaking the small town winter silence.

The car had tumbled off of Route 175 into a shallow ditch, but the crash did not awaken

Roland Gooch or John Spreling, both of whom lived nearby. It was the sound of the

fire and smell of the burning that drew their attention.

When Roland and John arrived at the scene, the car was fully ablaze,

though the physical damage from the crash was minimal.

Roland described it as an inferno, and the two men struggled to see if anyone was

in the car.

The flames obscured the passengers inside.

Janet Dow and her son, Stephen Dow, were inside that burning car just 500 feet

away from their own home.

They were deceased, but the cause of their deaths, whether from the seemingly gentle car crash, the wild flames, or something else, was not clear.

What was clear to both John and Roland was that there must be more

to what they'd witnessed. Over the next 40 years and across multiple

investigations, whether the truth of the suspicious deaths of Janet and Stephen Dow was ever uncovered

is still uncertain to some and a closed case to others.

I'm Kylie Lowe and this is the case of the mysterious deaths of Janet

and Stephen Dow on Dark Down East. Before the The area now known as New Hampshire was inhabited by Abenaki tribes.

In 1763, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Matthew Thornton, founded

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