It was the morning of April 3, 1990, and Jacqueline Bevins was all smiles, handing out donuts

and chatting with the construction crew as they arrived on site for the day.

Renovations were underway at the property she and her husband had recently purchased.

It was a new entrepreneurial endeavor for the always-enterprising Jack and Jackie Bevins.

The quaint ocean side village of a gunkwit main, new Jackie Bevins' best for her famous

restaurant on Perkins' Cove.

She served on boards and with the Chamber of Commerce, and she was appreciated for her

generous nature, a real figure in the York County community.

Jack Bevins, too, was well-known about town, though he wasn't around as much, always traveling

for work and other activities.

Together they made quite the pair, but it was anything but a happy marriage between

Jack and Jackie.

Just hours after the final breakfast pastry was handed out at the construction site, an

anonymous phone call came into the York police station.

Something bad had happened at the Bevins house.

This case will challenge you.

It will raise questions in your mind about consequence and justice, and what happens

when an individual decides or maybe is forced to take those things into their own hands.

I'm Kylie Lo, and this is the Jack and Jackie Bevins case part one on Dark Down East.

This two-part series contains discussion of domestic abuse and violence.

Please listen with care.

John W. Bevins, called Jack, was born in Waltham, Massachusetts on September 19, 1942,

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