Lita Jameson was 73 years old when her son found her lying in bed without a pulse one morning in March of 1976.

First responders at the scene believed she died of natural causes until they noticed signs of a possible homicide.

Decades later, DNA evidence led to an arrest, and yet someone has still gotten away with

murder. I'm Kylie Lowe and this is the case of Lita Jameson on Dark Down East.

It was snowing.

It was snowing on the morning of Tuesday, March 2nd, 1976 as Wayne Jameson began his work day.

He was the owner of Blanch and Jamison Insurance Agency and a real estate agent in the small

border town of Alburg, Vermont.

So Wayne was gearing up for the busy season when tourists from Canada began scoping out potential

vacation homes on the shores of Lake Champlain.

Almost every week Wayne's name was printed in the Burlington Free Press and other local papers below

ads for secluded cottages and rustic lakeside retreats.

He was well known in Alburg and Greater Vermont for his real estate endeavors, and also for his

earlier political career in the Vermont House of Representatives.

Even without his political titles and business, though, it was hard to remain anonymous

in a town of less than 1300 people.

And with his mother being a steadfast figure of local education? Well, the Jamieson legacy ran deep in Alburg and Grand Isle

County. Wayne's office on North Main Street in Alburg was actually just across the street from the home of his mother,

Lita Jameson. According to reporting by Mike Donahue for the Burlington Free Press,

Lita had made a 40-year career as a school teacher.

She was known to be pretty strict, but at the end of the day she really just expected a lot out of her pupils

when she knew they were capable of it. She'd taught at least two generations of

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