In the last episode of Dark Down East, you heard the story of Denise Hart and her still unsolved homicide in Vermont.

I mentioned in that episode the case of another woman who grew up in the same city and around the same people as Denise.

So that's the story I'm going to tell you today, the story of a young mother who walked out the door and got into a

waiting vehicle with someone she and her family thought they knew, only to have

her life end in his hands.

I'm Kylie Lowe and this is the case of Tuesday, August 11th, 2015, when 24-year-old

Tashana Jackson walked out of her mother's apartment on Barber Street in Hartford, Connecticut.

She stopped in for only a few minutes and said she was waiting for a ride.

According to reporting by David Owens and Nicholas Rondinoni for the Hartford Current,

Tashana's mother, Tasha Fitch, didn't see the car Tashana got into that night,

or the person picking her up, but a tell-tale rumble led her to believe it was a guy

named Robert Lee Graham. His truck was recognizably loud when it rolled down Barbara Street.

Where the pair was off to that night, what the plan was for their evening,

the only people who know the truth are Tashana and Robert.

What we do know is that Tashana never returned home.

Tasha was immediately concerned when that Wednesday passed without any sign of her daughter.

Tishana had a five-year-old son, Komari, and she wouldn't be away from him if she didn't have to be,

certainly not without calling.

Her mother waited as long as she could stand it before calling Hartford Police to report Tashana missing.

As Tasha spoke anxiously into the phone, relaying all of the info she could to the officer

on the other end, the man whose car Tashana was last

seen getting into was actually there.

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