# The Murders of Gloria Gough & Evelyn "Penny" Deans (Maine and South Carolina)

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Podcast: [Dark Downeast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dark-downeast-1318293)
Published: 2026-09-17T07:00:00+00:00
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In August of 1972, 44-year-old Gloria Gough left her home in Gardiner, Maine after a late-night phone call and vanished. Two days later, more than a thousand miles away in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, 52-year-old Evelyn “Penny” Deans was shot to death inside her home. Then police looked in Penny’s driveway. Sitting there was Gloria’s car. Inside were blood-soaked towels, clothing, and a map pointing toward yet another state. What followed was a multistate investigation, a murder case built largely on circumstantial evidence, and a second murder case that never reached trial – not because investigators walked away, but because the family asked for something different from the justice system.

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