From the location of her car to the condition of her body to the timeline of

disappearance until discovery, Crystal Lee Higgins' sister feels that so much of the case doesn't add up to an accidental death.

So we're peeling back the layers of this case even further, with the help of experts.

If you haven't already, go back and listen to part one of this story.

I'm Kylie Lowe, and this is the case of Crystal Lee Higgins, part two, on Dark Down East. For years after her big sister, 17-year-old Crystal Lee Higgins died, Jessica struggled to accept the final ruling in the case. The autopsy found that

Crystal had no significant trauma to her body and no signs of foul play.

With her vehicle and body having been recovered from the Pleasant River just off the boat

launch in Addison, Maine, the totality of the circumstances led investigators to rule Crystal's

cause of death as drowning and the manner of death

accidental, not suicide, not homicide, or undetermined. It was all a tragic accident, they said.

Crystal must have fallen asleep in her car as it rolled into the water and managed to escape

the car as it sank, but then struggled to safely reach the shore and drown.

How she would have sat at the landing with a foot on the brick for a couple of hours.

She left that house around midnight shortly after midnight and then her phone

starts randomly calling numbers at around 330. So she sat there at the landing from, say, 1230 to 3.30 in the morning, with a foot just

sitting on the break. Like that alone doesn't make sense to me. The whole theory

didn't make sense to me. The whole theory didn't make sense to me. Jessica mostly kept her doubts to herself

without any proof or evidence to back them up. Several years later, when she was around

19 years old,

Jessica found a box of stuff at her dad's house,

documents upon documents relating to Crystal's case.

The autopsy report, police records,

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