When friends Cynthia Kane, Clark, and Don Shippy both turned up the victims of homicide, one after the other in the same two months span.

Investigators were faced with a complex investigation.

It's now been over 20 years since the two women were killed in neighboring

Rhode Island towns, and police are still looking for answers.

I'm Kylie Lowe, and these are the cases of Cynthia Kane Clark

and Don Shippy, on Dark Down East. In the fall of 2002, 27-year-old Cynthia Kane Clark, who went by Cindy was getting back on her feet.

According to reporting by Megan Wims for the Providence Journal,

Cindy's friend said she was a good-hearted giving person,

but she also had a rough life. Her childhood was spent between foster homes

and as an adult her marriage ended in a difficult divorce. Substance use

disorder had played a recurring role in her day to day, but she had recently sought treatment in a rehabilitation program.

When she completed the program, Cindy found a new apartment for herself, where her kids could stay too.

The apartment building sat at the corner of Washington and Nolan streets in the Arctic

area of West Warwick, Rhode Island.

The building had three floors plus a walkout basement level where

Cindy's unit was located. One of the basement level doors led out to the large parking area behind the building.

News reports indicate that this parking lot was often the scene of parties, people

hanging out well into the early hours of the morning kind of thing.

West Warwick police records show that for the roughly six month period that

Cindy lived there, officers occasionally responded to the address to break up a crowd or to

tell people to keep the noise down.

However, on the morning of Saturday, November 9, 2002,

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