Matching gravestones in South Cemetery mark Karen Christensen and Anethe Christensen, two women murdered on Smuttynose Island in 1873. A third woman escaped and accused Louis Wagner, who was later executed for the killings, though debate over the case persisted. The graves provide a mainland stop tied directly to one of the Isles of Shoals' darkest stories.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: Atlas Obscura