{"podcast":{"title":"Dark Downeast","slug":"dark-downeast-1318293","podcast_index_feed_id":1318293,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/LqfhW4oK","website_url":"simplecast.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/7d68c467-d3d7-41c3-b7c0-92218b530432/fff54d98-91fb-42da-8847-75e4ee6c7579/3000x3000/dark-downeast-show-art-3000px-1.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Audiochuck","episode_count":291,"summary":"Dark Downeast: Maine and New England's True Crime Podcast digs into the decades-old and modern day cases that prickle the history of Vacationland and beyond – the unsolved homicides, undetermined deaths, unexplained disappearances and other dark stories of New England. Investigative journalist and storyteller Kylie Low gets straight to the story with a mix of narrated episodes and documentary style production featuring interviews with surviving family and friends and insight on the investigations from detectives and sources who know these cases best. This is heart-centered, ethical true crime, bringing light to stories you’re not hearing on other podcasts. It is Dark Downeast's mission to honor the legacy of the humans at the heart of each story and bring new attention to the cases still awaiting justice.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-18T14:24:58.556943+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dark-downeast-1318293"},"episode":{"title":"The Murder of Valerie Tieman (Maine)","slug":"the-murder-of-valerie-tieman-maine","published_at":"2026-07-09T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dark-downeast-1318293/the-murder-of-valerie-tieman-maine","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dark-downeast-1318293","url":"https://darkdowneast.com/","audio_url":"https://tracking.swap.fm/track/fxUKVg2nSMaPSHLeKNKH/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/rsv.simplecastaudio.com/95911e4a-09d8-4ef5-a9d0-8bbf08341312/episodes/a1d57e14-481d-4eda-9057-2d68a18ef4ec/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=95911e4a-09d8-4ef5-a9d0-8bbf08341312&awEpisodeId=a1d57e14-481d-4eda-9057-2d68a18ef4ec&feed=LqfhW4oK","summary":"In 2016, the disappearance of Valerie Tieman became one of the most talked-about cases in Maine in the last decade. At first, there was room for hope, and maybe even a version of the story where Valerie had simply walked away from a life that had become too painful. Her husband, Luc Tieman, was a wounded military veteran, a man whose service and struggles shaped how people first understood him. But as investigators followed the trail from a parking lot to a wooded property in central Maine, the story Luc told evolved. Each new version raised a darker question: what happened to Valerie, and why were the people who loved her the last to know she was gone?","meta_description":"In 2016, the disappearance of Valerie Tieman became one of the most talked-about cases in Maine in the last decade. At first, there was room for hope, and…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2608,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dark-downeast-1318293/episodes/the-murder-of-valerie-tieman-maine/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dark-downeast-1318293/the-murder-of-valerie-tieman-maine.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}