Dark Downeast sheds new light on Massachusetts mystery
TYNGSBOROUGH, Mass. — In her latest investigative episode of Dark Downeast, journalist and host Kylie Low uncovers new details in the suspicious death of 20-year-old Christina Lunceford, whose body was found wrapped in a comforter along the Merrimack River in Tyngsborough just months after she vanished from her Nashua apartment.
The 2004 case remains unsolved to this day. Using nearly 250 pages of unreleased police case files, Low retraces Lunceford’s final days and the troubling investigation that followed. The episode includes exclusive interviews with Lunceford’s mother, Michelle, who reveals painful memories and unanswered questions about what really happened to her daughter.
“She didn’t move out,” Michelle said in the episode. “Those photo albums police found in that apartment — she would not go anywhere without those. That was her whole life from the time she was three until she was 20.”
Despite multiple investigations across state lines and decades of silence from key witnesses, Lunceford’s death remains unsolved. Low’s reporting exposes new connections, inconsistencies in earlier police work and a renewed call to action for a case that’s been stagnant for nearly 21 years.
“This isn’t just about an unsolved case,” said Low. “It’s about a young woman whose story fell through the cracks and a mother who refuses to stop searching for the truth.”
The full episode, “The Suspicious Death of Christina Lunceford,” is now streaming on all major podcast platforms.


