The chilled windy air of the Atlantic Ocean surrounded the ship past midnight on

July 14, 1886. Bells wrung out across the deck every half hour with consistency.

Two bells signaled that it was one hour past midnight, four bells that it was two.

With every four bells, a change in the shift aboard the Herbert Fuller began.

Nine days into its voyage between Boston, Massachusetts and Rosario Argentina, all was well aboard the ship, which carried 12 passengers and a boatload of lumber for trade.

Just past four bells, however, a single shriek rang out through the back cabin where the officers of the ship resided, the afterhouse.

Silent to all but its victims, yet impactful to many beyond those who died, and acts repeatedly fell.

With the exception of the wind, silence returned to the Herbert Fuller.

Lester Hawthorne Monks, a young man on leave from Harvard University, hesitated in his cabin,

unsure of the source of the scream.

When he finally left his room, he found the bodies of Charles Nash, the captain of the ship, his wife Laura, and the second mate of the ship, August Blomberg.

The next week on the Herbert Fuller was tense, full of suspicion.

As the remaining crew returned to the closest port in Halifax, Nova Scotia, little was

solved. Accusations flew, but many questions were difficult to answer.

Who murdered Charles, Laura, and August, and why?

I'm Kylie Lowe and this is the historic case of the murders aboard the Herbert Fuller on Dark Down East. The Industrial Revolution had begun two decades.

The year 1896 in the United States

was a time of immense change. The Industrial Revolution had begun two decades

earlier and was having a tremendous impact on life in America. The United States

was finding its place in the world and trade was especially important since the country was not self-sufficient.

While technology had begun to take over in many ways, ships remained the primary means of transportation for cargo that needed to be sent across the ocean.

For those who owned and captained ships, the sea represented a tremendous opportunity.

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