For almost 50 years, the murder of two people in the tiny Northern Vermont

village of Hardwick have gone unsolved. The rumors in town ran almost as rampant as the fear, but whether any of the chatter

about what happened to the victims is true remains to be seen nearly five

decades later. I'm Kylie Lowe and these are the cases of

Joan Gray Rogers and Bernard Ewen on Dark Down East. down east. Archie Parkhurst had been waiting hours to catch a glimpse of his best friend 64-year-old Bernard

Ewen.

It was almost 3 in the afternoon on Saturday, July 16, 1977, and Bernard should have left his downstairs

apartment hours ago. Bernard was retired, but there was nothing about him that

enjoyed an idle weekend.

He was a constant figure in the small town of Hardwick, Vermont, walking everywhere and

anywhere, usually with his beloved radio in one hand and a walking stick in the other.

If you ever found yourself in a conversation with Bernard, clear your schedule because he

loved to talk, and many said you couldn't get a word in edge-wise with him.

But that was part of his charm, always friendly, always social. That was Bernard Ewen.

According to reporting by Jean Novagradsky for the Rutland Daily Herald,

Archie lived across the hall from Bernard in the Beamus Block on Main Street in Hardwick.

The three-story weathered gray building was home to about 20

apartments that sat above a few commercial units on the first floor, a general

store, a dress shop, a discount shop, and it made up a large part of the village center.

The building had been the target of several break-ins over the previous few months,

anywhere from four or five, all the way up to 20, depending on where you got your data from at the time.

In January of that year there was even a bomb threat at the building, though a bomb was never

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