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Anne Isabel Kahrn Dowling

Case from New Britain, CT dated Oct 19, 1974

Victim Details

Anne Isabel Kahrn Dowling

Female

White / Caucasian

New Britain

CT

1974-10-19

57

Anne

Isabel Kahrn Dowling

07/02/2026

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On the evening of October 19, 1974, Anne Isabel Kahrn Dowling, a 58-year-old White female, and her husband, Thomas, were customers at the Donna Lee Bakery in New Britain, Connecticut. What should have been a routine stop turned into a scene of unimaginable horror. Along with four other individuals, including the bakery's owner and another customer, the Dowlings became victims in what was at the time the worst mass murder in Connecticut's history.

The victims were all forced into a back ro ...
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