Ivan and Matthew flew to the tender and rowed furiously to Smuttynose. They landed at the same time as John and the three raced to the house. Ivan pushed open the door and entered the kitchen. There, lying on the floor, her long gold hair matted in a pool of dried blood, was his adored lover. Covering his face he pushed his way out the door and collapsed senseless in the snow. John and Matthew viewed the full contents of the destroyed home, then sailed the Clara Bella to Appledore. Later that afternoon John and others carried Maren’s tale of terror to the authorities in Portsmouth.

Karen! Karen! What’s wrong?” Maren shouted as she jumped out of bed and tugged at the door. Karen struggled to her feet as Wagner dealt another crushing blow. Battered and bleeding, she was thrown against the bedroom door. freeing the latch, and fell at Maren’s feet. Wagner rushed again, swinging and hitting both women, but Maren somehow managed to drag her sister out of his reach. She closed and barricaded the door as Louis tried to force his way in. She sent the friend videos of the pair having sex edited to appear as rape but the prosecution say the original footage showed it was consensual sex. Despite the strong parallels between the two cases, Detective Mortimer was hesitant to link them prematurely. There was no solid evidence that the two crimes had been committed by the same perpetrator. However, connected or not, the press would later dub the two cases the “Beauty School Murders”. Advancements in DNA After a long, severe winter, spring was finally in the air and the sun rose steadily in the clear sky as John, Matthew, and Ivan set sail on the morning of March 5, 1873. When the trawl lines were in they planned to sell the catch in Portsmouth and buy bait arriving on the early train from Boston. At sea they met a neighbor and asked him to stop at Smuttynose and tell the women the winds had changed in favor of sailing directly to the mainland, so they wouldn’t be stopping to leave one of the men on the island, as was their custom. They’d be home later that evening.Sweeney said he is "unable to confirm anything as to what happened and who is responsible" and called his wife Kassandra "the most amazing, caring, sweetest all around good person that anyone could ever meet...," while adding that she loved their children very much. Benjamin Michael was only 4 years old. He enjoyed learning about dinosaurs, making crafts, and loved movie nights with his parents and little brother Mason.

It was almost eight the next morning before Maren dared leave hiding. Unable to gain the attention of workmen on a neighboring island she staggered on frozen feet across the breakwater connecting Smuttynose and Malaga and waved her arms to the children of Jorge Ingerbredsen who were playing outside their home on Appledore. Once alerted, Jorge rowed the quarter mile to Maren’s rescue. He returned her to the care of his wife then gathered men with guns to search Smuttynose. When the party landed on the small island they discovered Wagner’s deed horribly documented. Every other customer is coming in saying something about the gun and who did it," Barbara Moulton, who works at a local convenience store, told NBC10 Boston. It is not uncommon for witnesses to realize that they have information that may be relevant after an arrest is made,” Formella noted, urging anyone with information to call Concord police at 603-225-8600. The last person to see Mr Schallamach alive, "by his own admission", was Kenneth Regan, police said.Police Commission William Mortimer, the first of the lead detectives on her case, did not get to see her killer finally named, having passed away in 2019 at the age of 95. At his retirement party in 2002, he expressed his confidence in those who came after him and his faith that the perpetrator would not outrun the rapid growth in forensic science. Justice for Tammy Little Police found the bodies of Kassandra Sweeney and her two young sons in their Wethersfield Drive home on the morning of Aug. 3, 2022, while responding to a 911 call. Each died of a single gunshot wound and their deaths were ruled homicides, autopsies found. It is our job now to keep their memories alive..Kassandra Rae Sweeney Benjamin Michael Sweeney Mason Lee Sweeney They will be forever loved and missed and forever in my heart I hope that goes for each and every other person who reads my ramblings. Thanks again to everyone the love and support I have gotten from you has truly been what has kept me going I know I havent answered many of you but I am seeing it and I am very grateful." Neighbors express concern Investigators would continue to obtain comparison DNA samples and eliminate hundreds of persons of interest over the next decade. Getting the DNA Match In 1987, Ronney was convicted of a burglary and sexual assault in Keene, NH, a college town in the western part of the state. A young woman who was home at the time of the robbery woke around 3:30AM to find someone touching her. She opened her eyes to see Ronney standing over her and screamed, waking her roommate. He fled, taking with him a number of items he had stolen from the house, including cash and jewelry. Ronney was arrested and charged with both the theft and the assault. He was sentenced to three years in prison, from 1987-1990.

He named Ronney James Lee publicly, for the first time, as her killer. His office was convinced, beyond a reasonable doubt, that he had broken into her apartment that morning with the intention of robbing Laura, sexually assaulting her, or both. The AG explained that if Ronney had lived, he would have been 63 years old, and would be facing charges of first-degree murder, aggravated sexual assault, battery, and robbery. Unfortunately, justice had come too late. Concord Police Chief Bradley Osgood, during a press conference on Friday, described the case as a “tragedy.” In 2019, the violent crime rate in New Hampshire was at around 152.5 per 100,000 people, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2019 Uniform Crime Report (UCR). In summary, violent crime, which includes assault, rape, burglary, and homicide, in New Hampshire in 2019 harmed around 152 people per 100,000 population. According to the same data, the homicide rate in New Hampshire was approximately 2.4 per 100,000 people in 2019. So, in New Hampshire, around 2 people per 100,000 were killed in 2019. He made a second call when an appeal was made to help catch the killers on BBC's Crimewatch, but refused to meet detectives. After getting off of work, she went home, relaxed for a bit, and then got ready to go out again. Around 9:00PM, her friend Karen Weise arrived at her apartment. After catching up and perhaps sharing a drink, the two young women hit the town.The investigation into the killing of a mother and her two young sons in Northfield, New Hampshire had officers searching off I-93 Wednesday. We have no specific information that would lead us to believe that the public in general is at any risk,” Ward told reporters. “That being said, be vigilant. Take your normal daily precautions. The Concord police will continue to be vigilant with patrols in those areas and in areas where there’s public outdoor recreation spaces.” The attorney general's office said in the days after the killings that Sean Sweeney, the children's father, was "cooperative and helpful" in their investigation. Prosecutors have charged 26-year-old Logan Clegg with murder in the April deaths of a Concord couple.