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Louis H. F. Wagner [1] (also spelled Lewis Wagner; [2] died June 25, 1875) was a German-born fisherman who arrived in the United States around 1865. Eight years later he was accused of the axe murders of two Norwegian women, Anethe Matea Christensen and Karen Christensen, on Smuttynose Island in the Isles of Shoals of Maine and New Hampshire.
Smuttynose Island (formerly "Smutty-nose") is a 27-acre island [1] in the Isles of Shoals, a group of small islands and tidal ledges located 6 miles (10 km) off the coast of New Hampshire and 7 miles (11 km) off the coast of Maine, United States.
The Weight of Water is a 1997 novel by Anita Shreve.Half of the novel is historical fiction based on the Smuttynose Island murders, which took place in 1873.. The book was adapted for a film of the same name, directed by Kathryn Bigelow and released in 2000.
Louis Wagner, who briefly boarded in Maren's house and once tried to seduce her, is convicted of the murders and executed. In the present, newspaper photographer Jean Janes begins researching the murders, and travels to Smuttynose with her husband Thomas, an award-winning poet.
A few years after Smuttynose Brewing Co. christened a new $24 million brewery, a contingent of Wachusett Brewing Co.’s brass drove up to Hampton, New Hampshire, to scrutinize the gleaming campus.
Smuttynose Brewing Co. is celebrating its 30th anniversary by re-releasing two of its most popular beers, Big A Double IPA and Shoals Pale Ale.
Smuttynose Island, at 25 acres (10 ha), is the third-largest island. It is allegedly the site of Blackbeard's honeymoon, [13] later for the shipwreck of the Spanish ship Sagunto in 1813, and then for the notorious 1873 murders of two young women.
“The Murdaugh Murders, Money and Mystery: Unsolved South Carolina” — This podcast, produced by WCIV ABC News 4 in Charleston, looks at cold cases and true crime stories in South Carolina ...