Smuttynose Island, Maine
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In 1873 on the bucolic New England Smuttynose Island, two Norwegian woman were struck with a hatchet and killed by German Louis Wagner. A third woman escaped and was able to identify him to the police. No motive was ever determined and Wagner maintained his innocence to the grave and even broke out of jail, despite all evidence certifying him as the culprit.