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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.
J. Dennis Robinson recounted the crime and the evidence against Louis Wagner in his 2019 book Mystery on the Isles of Shoals: Closing the Case on the Smuttynose Ax Murders of 1873, in which he concluded that there was overwhelming proof the correct person had been executed for the murders. Among other evidence, Robinson pointed out that Maren ...
The first recorded landfall of an Englishman was that of explorer Captain Christopher Levett, whose 300 fishermen in six ships discovered that the Isles of Shoals were largely abandoned in 1623. [3] "The first place I set my foot upon in New England was the Isle of Shoals, being islands in the sea about two leagues from the main," Levett wrote ...
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Rumours continue to swirl around body-camera footage recorded on the night four University of Idaho students were brutally murdered - despite police confirming days ago that the video was ...
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.
Attorneys for alleged Gilgo Beach murders suspect Rex Heuermann have insisted on their client’s innocence. Criminal defence attorney Michael J Brown described 59-year-old Mr Heuermann as a ...