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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 ...
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.
On March 5, 1873, Norwegian immigrants Karen Christenson and her sister-in-law, Anethe Christenson, are brutally murdered on Smuttynose Island, a lonely island among the Isles of Shoals off the New Hampshire coast. Karen's younger sister, Maren Hontvedt, survived the attack.
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A man who murdered a 17-year-old girl and refused to tell her family where her body is has died in prison where he was serving a life sentence.
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A man has been arrested over the leak of graphic crime scene photos taken from the wooded trail where teenage best friends Libby German and Abby Williams were brutally murdered.. In what marks the ...
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.