Mystery Location No. 58: July 2, 2017

These are the Jorgensen murder sites at 236 Lakeside Drive (where Svend, the shooter, and his wife were found dead), and 46 Montgomery Road (where their son Eric was found), in Boothbay Harbor, Maine.

Svend Jorgensen, 71, was originally from Denmark. He had worked as an engineer at Bath Iron Works until he retired. Eric, 41, was a teacher, who had just moved into the house on Montgomery Road that had belonged to his grandmother, Gladys Pratt.

The bodies were found on Saturday, the 4th of July 2015. It was believed the deaths occurred on either July 1st or 2nd. Carol, 75, was found dead in bed; Eric was on the kitchen floor of his home; and Svend shot himself in the basement. He left a note concerning financial matters and real estate holdings, but didn’t explain why he killed his family and himself.

These murders were big news throughout Maine. We don’t have many murders and what we do have are almost always cases of domestic violence, like these were.

Maine is the end of the Appalachian Trail.

Jul 9, 2017 23:22:28 GMT -5 pat said:

The house at 236 Lakeside Drive is cold and lifeless. I've always heard that houses reflect the personalities of those who live in them. There was something wrong with the person who decided on that huge open space without grass or trees. I could understand it in the desert where water is in short supply, but not in Maine.

I agree. Also, the owners didn't bother to landscape their property, like the Dermonds who were murdered in Georgia.