E01: MURDER - Smuttynose Island

Fresh Hell Podcast

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True Crime, History

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Years before Lizzie Borden took an axe, another terrible axe murder shocked the New England coast. This is the story that inspired the book The Weight of Water, by Anita Shreve, and the film that followed. Join us as we tell you the harrowing true tale of murder, greed, and survival, and the devastating, brutal crime on a small, isolated island in the Atlantic Ocean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Fresh Hell Podcast. This podcast contains material of
0:16.9	disturbing and often graphic nature. Listener discretion is strongly
0:21.5	advised. Please don't let your kids listen to this or they might turn out like us
0:26.6	Hello and welcome to the Fresh Hell podcast. I'm Annie and with me as always is
0:32.8	Johanna? Hello. Hi. Today I have a old-timey murder for you.
0:40.1	Oh, and I'm a sows. I like, you know why I really like the old timey murders I think is is that everyone
0:46.8	involved is is gone and there's not that like can we say say that? Can we talk about it?
0:54.0	Yeah, it's too soon.
0:57.0	And then also from a purely selfish point of view,
1:00.0	any potential murderers that are maybe listening to our podcast?
1:06.4	Especially with some of the unsolved stuff. It's like, don't come say hi. No, don't. Just don't.
1:11.7	It's fine. Send us an email.
1:13.4	That's good.
1:14.5	So I had found out about this murder.
1:18.0	Well, I read about this murder
1:19.8	in a fictionalized book quite a long time ago,
1:22.1	and then I realized I didn't actually
1:24.3	know that much about what really happened and so today I'm going to tell you
1:27.7	about the terrible axe murders on Smutty Nose Island.
1:33.2	It starts with John Hontvet,
1:37.3	who was a Norwegian immigrant.
1:39.6	So he came over from Norway
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