Isdal Woman

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Okay so, I'm making this blog post because this case has wormed its way into my heart, so therefore, I wanna talk about it here and share it with other people. I'm not going to divulge on all the details, I just wanna give you a taste and share some personal thoughts. Plus the more people who know about this the more brains that'll come together to solve this mystery?

So, a still unnamed woman is found dead in November 1970 in Bergen Norway's Isdalen valley, who's cause of death is a mixture of ingesting 50 to 70 sleeping pills from a brand called Fenemal and carbon monoxide poisoning due to a fire that burnt only the front half of her body. However, leaving her body and face hard to identify. The only flammable liquid found at the crime scene was a little bit of petrol inside the woman's fur hat underneath her body. They reported the objects around her were placed almost ceremonially. These items were: jewelry and a watch, both were placed on a rock to the side of the body. The watch still had the store bought hand positions. A broken umbrella and some burnt plastic bottles containing water. A pair of rubber boots and nylon stockings. Noticeably, all production labels had been cut off her clothes and rubbed off the bottles at the scene. There was also reported to be a ring holder for passports, where the paper had been burned off.

Three days later, the police are told by attendants at Bergen's railway station of two suitcases that had been left there. One of the two contained prescription-free glasses and a fingerprint on one of the pairs matches the woman's. They also contained clothes, wigs, money from multiple countries, and more. But again, all labels were removed. There was also a journal, but only the first page was used. They'd later find out that she used code to note the location and dates of the hotels she stayed at under at least 8 different fake identities. There still are parts left of that note still unsolved. A bag inside a suitcase led them to a shoe shop also in Norway where they heard a first hand account of the woman who could speak multiple languages, and whom smelled like garlic take her sweet time to buy shoes. The employees of the hotels she stayed at told stories of the men she would interact with and her strange habit of moving furniture. Along side a few others that saw her more or less going about her "business". The times she had traveled to Norway that year matched up with the practices Norway was preforming with their "Penguin" missiles. And she had been spotted near and interacting with Norway navel officers. Supposedly the police investigation was shut down some weeks after it started, there are accounts of the frustration the police felt over this. The case was closed, her death being ruled a suicide, and the woman is buried in February 1971 in an unmarked grave. Her funeral was attended by members of the police force... It wasn't until 2002, however, that the Norwegian secret police admitted to investigating the case and to having its own file on the woman. The case was reopened around 2016 and the jaw and tissue samples they had saved gave them the information the woman could have been born in Germany and grew up in France, supported by comparing her handwriting to the handwriting in regions of the world and more specifically, France.

So I think I covered it for the most part. There's not a whole lot you can do with this case 50 years later, and their one big hope is that someone will match with her DNA samples. But it's up to the Norwegian government with what can be done with the samples and the whole "comparing it with a DNA collecting business" is a legally tricky task. Maybe someday in the future, the right person will be found within their limited DNA pool and it'll be a match for her. Looking into it with these links: