What Happened In The Guttenberg Woods
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Episode 97 is another story of a honeymoon trip gone awry, but it was a marriage likely doomed from the start. For one thing, Mina Muller and Martin Kettler -- if that’s his real name -- were both already married. With children. But they still visit the minister and, well, you know it’s not gonna end well.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:04.0 | Married then murdered, what happened in the Gutenberg Woods. |
| 0:18.0 | On Friday morning, the 13th of May, 1881, a German whose purpose was to gather green leaves to sell to florists in New York City, |
| 0:30.0 | entered the path leading from Bergen Avenue in the district known as Bulls Ferry, north of Weehawken. |
| 0:40.5 | He had followed it eastward toward the river about a hundred feet and had turned aside to the right about 20 feet when he was appalled by almost |
| 0:47.0 | stepping upon the dead body of a woman. He hurried away to inform the police. |
| 1:01.8 | Early in the afternoon, Coroner Wiggins of Hoboken visited the spot and made a careful examination. |
| 1:06.1 | He judged that the woman had not been over 25 years old. |
| 1:13.1 | At the top of her head on the left side was a deep gash, and beneath it the skull was fractured. |
| 1:16.3 | There was another gash over the right eye. |
| 1:21.4 | Both of these gashes were apparently made with the edge of a stone. |
| 1:24.6 | The nose was broken in the middle. |
| 1:29.3 | The right side of the head had apparently been crushed by a stone. The left ear was injured as if an earring had been torn from it. Search was made for the missing |
| 1:37.0 | earring, but it was not found. Her face had become blackened by the sun, which shone upon the spot where the body lay. |
| 1:47.0 | The features were small and symmetrical. |
| 1:50.4 | She wore number one or number two buttoned shoes. |
| 1:54.8 | An investigation was at once begun by the coroner, but without much success. |
| 2:00.8 | On the 18th, the young woman was completely identified |
| 2:03.9 | as Mrs. Philomena Mueller, the wife of Simon Mueller, a tobacconist at 502 West 30th Street, New York. |
| 2:13.7 | Mr. Mueller called the morgue at 3 o'clock on the afternoon of May 18th, in company with a lady whom he described as Miss Maria Schmidt, his wife's sister. He said they desired to look at the body. They were led into the damp vault, and at the side of the body Miss Schmidt was overcome, and she retired to the adjoining |
| 2:35.1 | basement. Mr. Mueller gazed upon the body calmly. The jewelry and clothing of the dead |
| 2:42.2 | woman were shown to him, and he positively identified them as property of his wife. He said |
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