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Women aged under 27 who spoke English, French and German. Up to 100 women potentially in 1970.
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Anneliese Meindl in Norway from February
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Ingeborg Weber - aka Liane Lindner born Chemnitz, E Germany 1926 was a spy - tracked as Lanze by 3 agents.
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Links:
suitcase contents: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HavB8NzWyRaFp79NIdmC0_ARxOE1ZvQ_CcSgkQHpJaU/edit?usp=sharing https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p060ms2h/episodes/downloads
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isdal_Woman https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lbl-qrH6F6TfKry0898CJyXnz7QcnxHP1XrFxyfqlTo/edit?usp=sharing -
Coded Log 11th to 16th March
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17th to 19th March log
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20th to 23rd March from coded log
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Hotel booking card says arrived 19/3 in Norway. Worked as secretary (secretaire in French) name Genevieve Lancier, DOB 28/7/45. passport 8870/l25. Travelling from Brussels to Oslo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Royal_Christiania she buys breakfast on the 22nd seen with a man/ "According to the police report from Hotel Viking, the Dutch hotel maid said "she believed the woman spoke proper French, and she thought the woman was from France". -
Claudia Tielt
DOB 11/7/45.
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The unidentified woman was present in Bergen from 24.03 to 01.04.70. The 25th MBS was in Bergen around 24.03.70, in Stavanger around 29.10.70 and 09.11.70.
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suggested via FB group
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Claudia Tielt, antique dealer, DOB 11/7/43. Travelling Brussels.
Address claim Rue de la madeleine Brussels https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rue_de_la_Madeleine_(Bruxelles) She moved from Bristol on Wednesday before Maundy Thursday possibly because the hotel was closed for Easter, and spent the weekend at Hotell Skandia. -
26th to 31st - from coded log
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she went to the tourist office at noon on sunday Mars 29th and asked for a bus connection to Rjukan. Since it was 1st day of Easter and everything was closed, they couldn’t help her, but sent her to the railroad station for more information. She didn’t tell them, when she wanted to go there. They also said she had a lisp and spoke both English and German badly.
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She was sat next to student Jon and Audun Nilsen. Jon was a student in Bergen and he believed the journey must have been to Bergen from his parents. But the record shows them travelling to Stavanger.
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continental ticket from Stavanger, via Kristiansand to Hirtshals in Denmark (ferry), then train through Hamburg terminating in Basel in Switzerland.
IW bought a train ticket (under the name of Tielt; ticket number 150242) from Stavanger to Basel on 1 April (dep: 13:35). -
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from coded log.
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from coded log
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The squadron party at FAUSKE In yesterday's discussion of the TKB squadron party at Fauske Hotetl, where officers and privates are hosts
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from coded log
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from coded log - assuming in German.
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JFV reported missing in August but left Venice 1/6/70 - not seen again or reported about. see: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_ko95sgs=/
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from coded log
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from coded log
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from coded log
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from coded log and
podcast group - They found a perfume bottle named Brigand from Jacques Esterel,Paris ,in one of her suitcases.it was 1/4 full
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from coded log
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from coded log
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from coded log
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from coded log
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Newspaper article shows Trimboli in Bodo around 10th to 11th August 1970. But others show July.
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Gisela drowns
Hans tries to save but fails
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To see child born 13/8
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Last seen 1/6/1970 in Venice.
Description similar to IW - but 3 inches taller. See: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_ko95sgs=/ -
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love and peace concert - hendrix etc
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After a dramatic downhill drive in Stjørdalselva in Meråker Friday noon, an elderly couple from Stockholm and a German woman were rescued from a car roof,
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Trimboli in Copenhagen airport with wife and family.
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Trimboli also accused of rape during this visit?
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flies to Stockholm
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seen by his business partner
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in the afternoon. This is the date the police/sheriff says he saw them in Oppdal - based on sketch in newspaper 12/12/1970.
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Staying with Italian photographer - reported in book by Aske. Or Oslo?
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Gunter Fischer in Oslo with his GDR band. He wrote music to film Solo Sunny 1980 - for GDR spymaster's brother 'Wolf'.
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according to stillesby
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Name: Vera Schlosseneck
DOB: 21.01.45 -
Name: Vera Schlosseneck
DOB: 21.01.45 -
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Name: Claudia Nielsen
Passport no: LS 3552-12
DOB: 25.4.1945
POB: Gent
Nationality: Belgian
Address: R. Ste Walburge 18
Occupation: Verziererin (decorator?)
Reason for visit: Beruf Verkehr (rush hour/job?)
Room number: 300 The 25th MBS was in Bergen around 24.03.70, in Stavanger around 29.10.70 and 09.11.70. -
a telex from the SAS ticket office in Paris, stating that Vera Schlosseneck had bought a ticket from Paris through Holland (Amsterdam?) to Stavanger - at first for October 27th, later postponed to October 29th ?flight was for Oslo?
15 passengers left in Stavanger, of which one was VS. Vera Schlosseneck. "...I remember that the passenger with a French passport was a woman around 30 years old". -
The 25th MBS was in Bergen around 24.03.70, in Stavanger around
29.10.70 and 09.11.70. She was in Stavanger from 29.10 to 30.10.70 and another time in
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Name: Alexia Zarna-Merchez
Passport no: GS 2553-21
DOB: 27.11.1943
POB: Ljubliana
Nationality: Belgian
Address: 91 R Ste Hildegaarde, Brussels
Occupation: Verziererin (decorator?)
Reason for visit: Handelsverkehr (trade)
Room number: 609, 619, 701 The maid's daughter Mariann murdered https://www.amazon.co.uk/Camouflaged-Murder-David-Morgan-ebook/dp/B09C3VXTHF/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3CBP99ZRAWEUN&keywords=a+camouflaged+murder&qid=1641923395&s=books&sprefix=a+camouflaged+murder%2Cstripbooks%2C54&sr=1-1 -
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suggested via fb group
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Evidence from newspaper archive search Murder Commisssion/Kripos in Bergen.
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His wife died 31/10/1970
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November 6th - 8th November: Staying at Hotel Bristol Room 427 in Trondheim under the name of Vera Jarle. No registration card completed.
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security police in Trondheim guard the airport at Værnes because they know that the two Soviet agents named Rubanov and Popov are on their way. The agents travel on to Sandnessjøen.
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?Or ticket In name of E Welding
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Checked in as Fenella Lorck (Lorch) from Belgium.
In Stavanger 9 to 18 November
Seen by cleaner end of week wearing rubber boots. Took D off bathroom door to make room 615D or did she hide the 6 thinking it was evil? Seen with wine bottles in her bedroom. Apparently drunk. The 25th MBS was in Bergen around 24.03.70, in Stavanger around 29.10.70 and 09.11.70. -
that she traveled further through Oslo to Stavanger on November 9 as L. Selling. 2 bags 25kg on flight.
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Buys rubber boots Oscar Rørtvedt's Footwear Store in Stavanger
DIIV Podcast said 18th.
I amended to 14th to match police evidence in Aske's book. Podcast wasn't clear about this. "14th -Aske, in his own words, states that Officer Thue found a reciept dated that showed the boots were purchased early in the day. This would seem at odds with IW. Statements from staff at the St Svithans hotel state that she was mostly in a dressing gown well into day and in a state of apparent drunkeness" -
IW buys an umbrella from Bjarna Lundt in Stavanger and 'someone' exchanges shoes or boots for cash.
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Meeting Festplassen at 1pm {also birthday of American woman)
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Before the visit of Jane Wallentine?/Normann Laskemoen visits the Isdalen Valley. He says he doesn't normally go there. So why did he? Normann or 'Normy' worked in the Vinmonopolet as a warehouse clerk. Where the alcohol was purchased/'obtained'.
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Ulrike Shubert in the Stern magazine. Picked up by journalist in December.
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Podcast references a mirror being purchased by a man and woman in Bergen. But if purchased 16th most likely not IW as she is in Stavanger.
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Jane Wallentine aged 26 born Iowa 15/11/1944 arrives in Stavanger with a large bag (possibly labelled California) and 2 suitcases. One brown with straps and one smaller and lighter in colour. Presumably she arrived by train. She travels on the Vingtnor hydrofoil - 1.30pm on the 19th. Note: names frequently used on Isdal Woman addresses Wal-burgh https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08XZQCT1G/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=isdal+woman&qid=1614887892&s=books&sr=1-3
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Looking at code book perhaps inking out S (Stavanger?) and changing to B (Bergen) - was possibly a change of plan or a simple memory lapse as she was already in Stavanger?
The taxi driver who took her from the Hotel St Svithun to the hydrofoil carried her 'one' suitcase (18.11.70), while she carried a bag. He said she had a sexy body and wide hips and a gap between her teeth and spoke poor english.
Newspaper:
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Name: Elisabeth Leenhouwer
Passport no: ?
DOB: 27.11.45
POB: Ostend On the 18th the maid saw her with a man sitting in the room.
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Jane takes 2 suitcases and a bag from the hostel in Stavanger.For the trip to Bergen by hydrofoil on the 19th at 1.30pm. Buys rubber boots.
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Name: Elisabeth Leenhouwer
Passport no: LG254.138
DOB: 27.11.45
POB: Ostend
Nationality: Belgian
Address: 44a Philipstock Str., Brussels
Occupation: Geschäft Teilhaberin (Business partner)
Reason for visit: Handelsverkehr (trade)
Room number: 407 Staff report that she always came down for porridge breakfast, was elegant, smoked long South State cigarettes and had a strong "spicy" scent. Aske says 407 was not corner room in 1970. -
Seen 3pm in Isdalen valley.
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Th. Olsens eftf goldsmiths at Ole Bulls square in Bergen before 5.30
She wore a brownish or grayish coat with an attached belt. Around her neck, she had a long shawl with a type of chequered pattern in green. She was bareheaded and had brownish hair, perhaps chestnut brown. The woman enquired about two particular silver sets of cutlery, “Kronsølv” and “ Prins Harald”, the woman wanted the sets shipped to Germany -
woman asked someone in bad English about the direction towards VInmonopolet liquor "store". "Elizabeth Leenhouwfr" arrived to the hotel around 15:00 that day
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To bergen
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Israeli woman in Oslo given NRK 2 to catch a bus to the hostel.
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Jane planned to travel to Oslo. She had arranged to meet up with someone she met in the Stavanger hostel but doesn't call him.
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Dagbladet Saturday 21. November 1970, One Picture in the newspaper is a former Miss Norway.
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source FB group.
In episode 11 the sea captain says he saw her on a Sunday before she was killed followed by 2 men in the Floyen. It would have to be the 22nd. Normann Laskemoen often walked the Floyen on a Sunday with his friend Waldemar Hansen. On the 22nd he may have made the trip with Jane Wallentine.He walked from Rundamanen on the 22nd. -
Hiker claims he saw the Isdal woman being followed by two men. On the 22/11/1970 Normann Laskemoen (Vinmonpolet) and his friend Waldemar Hansen (Vesta) walked from Rundamanen they say to another reservoir Langlivatnet.
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between 9 and 10am on the morning of 23 Nov., the IW went to the Bergen Privatbank exchanged Swedish Crowns. Possibly Schulman's Amex.
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Date of death uncertain. She is likely to have been dead before 29/11. Left train station 23/11 after leaving baggage.
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Tore Osland suggests date of discovery 27/11 (in evidence) by train station staff is the date police were informed. https://www.facebook.com/groups/deathinicevalley/?multi_permalinks=677427272627158%2C677358135967405%2C677175059319046%2C676997729336779%2C676771196026099¬if_id=1535022161957828¬if_t=group_activity
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The Laskemoens in Gvarv received a postcard from Linkoping, Sweden from Wallentine. Received 27th postmark hidden. Harald studied at Berkeley in California until 1970 Johan Normann Laskemoen walks up mountains every week until he is over 90. Was he walking the Floyen on the 22nd? He says he was at Rundamanen going to Langlivatnet.
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Source Dagbladet
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Carl: Call received 9/10am.
Notified date of death of so-called Isdal woman.
Found 29. november 1970, kl. 13.00 (or 1.15?)
(Report 2/12/70 puts time as 1.20pm)
Unknown woman found death in Isdalen
A hiker and two daughters find the body of a burned woman in a rock over Svartediket in Bergen.
29. november 1970, kl. 14.00
The police arrive at scene
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The forensic investigations continue the day after the discovery. The woman has been lying on the scene during the night with guards who take care that no one destroys any traces. The body is moved to Gade's Department of Autopsy
During the day and transferred to the department of Gade at Haukeland Hospital, where the autopsy will be carried out. The autopsy is done by forensic physicians J. Chr.Giertsen. -
Newspaper says carbon monoxide in blood)
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The first inquiry related to the unknown woman is sent internally to the police in Norway through police officers. It is likely KRIPOS were involved. Speculated they/POT had opened the suitcases before the police.
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Citroen CV 4". clerk in repair shop: His description of the woman has similarities with the IW (160-165 cm, wide hips, dark hair in a pony tail, gold teeth, seemed depressed), but he also says she spoke Norwegian with a French accent, which doesn't quite match.
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The police collect two large suitcases at the left luggage office at Bergen railway station.
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The woman's fingerprints are sent to the Criminal Police Center in Oslo (Kripos) for a check against the police fingerprint register. Unfortunately for investigators, there are no hits in the search.
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The forensic lab send tissue samples for testing. Reported in newspaper 2/12.
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"Amendment to C-1058": "Corpse has been subjected to strong heat, all clothing is completely or partially burnt. Corpse also has significant burn damage. Correction to description: About 30-40 years,
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Blood test:
Weak positive (probable D * type).
Rin Probable Rh genotype: R, r (C + D * - c + e +). Probable K+
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The taxi driver who took her in Stavanger to the hydrofoil sees the sketch and contacts the police and gives a statement.
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There was also another witness, the owner of a tobacco shop in Bergen, who described a woman driving a car with foreign license plates (possible a Citröen). She visited the shop two-three times a week to buy 10-packs of Pall Mall cigarettes. He felt she was "depressed and nervous". He also mentioned her having "crooked fingers". Elisabeth Leenhouwer was described by one witness as having "bony fingers".
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Modified 4/12 as they talk with the taxi driver.
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information about the unknown woman is sent internationally via Interpol. The telex contains information about the appearance, clothing, teeth and objects found on the scene.
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Date is not actual - yet. Will update when known.
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Tests from legal toxicological examinations
The Institute of Public Health has reported that the Isdal woman had 4 milligrams of the sedative Fenemal in the blood. This is not a fatal dose but would have blunted the woman strongly. In addition, she had 12 tablets of Fenemal in the stomach which were not dissolved when she died. -
December 5th, a note by detective Jahrmann mention a separate toxicological analysis that was not performed at Gades Institutt (where the autopsy was done), but by a specialist Lab called "Rettstoksikologisk institutt
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Belgian police have checked the name Finella Lorck, whom the Isdal woman used to be in Stavanger. They find no one with that name in their records.
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Finds unrelated plastic bag and an orange.
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The incident report to the police has been completed. It is established that the woman has been embraced by a brief but intense fire. There were no leftovers after a fire, but the technicians could smell the smell of petroleum from a fur trimmed hat they found under the body.
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Preliminary autopsy.
Bergen police
Forensic department
Bergen, December 7th 1970
Death scene report
Regarding the discovery of a female corpse damaged by fire in Isdalen in Bergen Sunday November 29th 1970.
Prepared by police sergeant O. Kristiansen
The investigation was started at the site on Sunday afternoon 29/11-70 a short time after we received the notice of the discovery. Signed O. Kristiansen. -
Code Block Solution
The police solve the code on the writing pad they found in the Isdal woman's luggage. It turns out to be an extensive itinerary - both in Norway and in Europe. -
The police discover that the Isdal woman had travelled to and from Trondheim with Braathens SAFE (airline). Here, she may have used the names E. Velding and L. Selling, but because she did not have to legitimise on airplanes in 1970, they cannot say that she used the ticket.
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source blog
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see 3/12 for details.
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Script analysis connects identities
The scripts at Kripos confirm that the code block found in the suitcase, six of the foreign forms from Norwegian hotels and several of the hotel receipts are all filled out by the same person - Isdalskvinen. -
Confirm that the suitcases are her
Kripos has compared the fingerprints from the body and the impression they found on a pair of sunglasses in the suitcases. It matches. Even though they have been safe, they now get the final proof that the two suitcases belong to the Isdal friend. -
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Secret police request info
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First report on the teeth
Dental professor Gisle Bang suggests in a report that the woman may be from eastern, southern or central europe due to special dental work. wiki: The teeth of the woman were thoroughly checked during autopsy and the way the tooth was performed on the occasion that the woman had been at a dental clinic in South America. Wrong? -
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Fædrelandsvennen article saying US has
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The drawings come in print in today's newspapers, and immediately lead to new inquiries. One of these comes from the police/sheriff in Oppdal. He states that a woman who matched the signal element was seen with an Italian photographer at Oppdal on October 3, 1970.
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The police find another false identity that Isdal's friend has used - Claudia Tielt. Under this name she has stayed at Hotell Skandia in Bergen, and took the "Vingtor" hydrofoil between Stavanger and Bergen. -
Request to identify cosmetic owned by Isdal woman. she also had 1/2 bottle Brigand perfume
https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Jacques-Esterel/Brigand-40187.html
rosemary, plum, pepper, green notes, patchouli, carnation, leather and musk brigand - a member of a gang that ambushes and robs people in forests and mountains. -
all tracked apart from Vera S
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No trace in other police districts
All police forces in southern Norway have searched for who the woman may be or if she has been in their area. The survey does not provide any useful traces. -
source cowhimpering blog
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The laboratory of Kripos has analyzed all the remains of objects from the scene. They manage to isolate a tiny amount of gasoline - a fraction of a drop - telling what drives the fire.
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At the NSB travel office in Stavanger, the police finds a ticket receipt that shows that Isdal woman had travelled by train from Stavanger to Basel the last time she was in Norway.
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The police is holding a press conference at the police house in Bergen. There they say that suicide is the most likely cause of death, and they reject all theories that the Isdal woman was a foreign spy. They say she is likely from Paris. Filmed.
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from a blog.
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BBC/NRK say day after police press conference. But he contacted on the 21st and was interviewed by 1 Stavanger policeman. Not Kripos.
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newspaper shows artistic impression of Isdal woman. This is the 2nd sketch.
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The report from the National Forensic Toxicology Institute is complete and will be sent.
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Interviewed and said he was in Bergen in October 1970 but not November. He did not know how his old travellers cheque was cashed on 23rd November 1970. He said he used old and new ones.
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The cause of death is assumed to be suicide with pills / fire
The final autopsy report on Isdal woman is available. "The cause of death is thought to be a combination of poisoning with Fenemal and carbon monoxide. The damage caused by the fire may have been a contributing cause of death," it says. -
January 16th the police got back information on travellers cheques from the USA via Copenhagen Embassy
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Police Chief Rolf Harry Jahrmann, says he has not yet been sent the details of the case from Copenhagen,
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French police respond to the last request from Norway. They have no people registered with the name Vera Schlosseneck, as the Isdal friend used to stay in Paris. Both the name and address are fake.
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Interpol in Paris has compared the handwriting of Vera Schlosseneck with the hotel forms sent and states that it is identical. The police in Norway have thus been confirmed to be the woman of Isdal.
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The beautiful hymn "Lead, Kindly Light," accompanied by organ and violin, fills the chapel at the Møllendal graveyard in Bergen. Sixteen men and two women are seated on the benches. They are all employees of the Bergen police force. None of them has any idea who the woman in the beautiful white coffin might be.
The woman is buried
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March 30th Kripos started looking into the information on the travellers cheque (Amex) and they ask for more information.
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Trimboli inteviewed - indicates woman given lift to Loen was S African and Kripos follow up and given assurance woman is alive.
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May 25th Kripos is informed about new interviews of Schulman being conducted. Kripos wanted to now of there was any contact between the man and the woman. [??? Suggested by FB group he was in Bergen.]
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June 19th Kripos receives information from the American embassy in Copenhagen(Denmark) that FBI still doesn’t have any more information on Schulman but that investigations are still ongoing.
