# The Murder of Debra Stone (Rhode Island)

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Podcast: [Dark Downeast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dark-downeast-1318293)
Published: 2026-02-12T08:00:00+00:00
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For more than forty years, Debra Stone’s murder lingered in the uneasy space between knowing and proving. An informant came forward early on with a story that, in hindsight, mapped almost every detail of what happened to her, yet the case drifted through the decades, weighed down by doubt, fear, and a single failed polygraph that stalled momentum. When investigators finally reopened the file in the 21st century, it wasn’t modern DNA science that brought clarity. The evidence had already been there. What the case needed was the will to look again and confront the truth that should have been acted on long ago.

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