Isdal Woman: The mystery death haunting Norway for 46 years - Sensationalist Headlines

[quote] It's a mystery that has intrigued Norway for nearly 50 years. In November 1970, the badly burnt body of a woman was found in a remote spot in Norway's Isdalen valley. Someone had cut the labels off her clothes, and scraped distinctive marks off her belongings - as if to stop her from being identified. And as police started investigating her death, they uncovered a trail of coded messages, disguises, and fake identities - but never cracked the case. Forty-six years later, Norwegian police and NRK journalists have decided to reopen the investigation. This is the story of the Isdal Woman - and the perplexing trail of clues she left behind. On the morning of 29 November 1970, a man and his two young daughters see a body in Isdalen Valley. The corpse is sprawled across some rocks - with its arms extended in a "boxer" position, typical of bodies that have been burnt. Isdalen is known to some locals as "Death Valley" - it was a site where people committed suicide in medieval times, and, in the 1960s, some hikers had fallen to their deaths while trekking in the fog. But the woman does not appear to be a normal hiker. On the morning of 29 November 1970, a man and his two young daughters see a body in Isdalen Valley. The corpse is sprawled across some rocks - with its arms extended in a "boxer" position, typical of bodies that have been burnt. Isdalen is known to some locals as "Death Valley" - it was a site where people committed suicide in medieval times, and, in the 1960s, some hikers had fallen to their deaths while trekking in the fog. But the woman does not appear to be a normal hiker. "The body was burned all over the front," including "the face and most of her hair", he says - but strangely it was not burnt on the back. "It looked like she had thrown herself back" from a fire, he says, adding that she was so badly burnt they could not imagine what she originally looked like. The scene is cold by the time Carl arrived, so he cannot tell how long the body has been there for. And how did the woman end up on fire? Clue two: The objects Police find a number of objects at the scene, including jewellery, a watch, a broken umbrella and some bottles. But it is the positioning of the objects that leaves the strongest impression on Tormod Bønes, one of the forensic investigators. The woman is not wearing the watch or her jewellery - instead, they have been placed beside her. "The placement and location of the objects surrounding the body was strange - it looked like there had been some kind of ceremony," he says. Police also find the remains of a pair of rubber boots and nylon stockings. "She had been wearing a lot of clothes - of synthetic materials - and all the clothes had been heavily burned," says Tormod. Adding to the mystery is the fact that the production labels have been cut off her clothes and rubbed off the bottles at the scene. Police find nothing at the scene to indicate who the woman was. Police issue an appeal for eyewitnesses. They say the woman was about 164cm (5ft 4.5 inches) tall, with "long brownish-black hair", a small round face, brown eyes, and small ears. She appeared to be aged between 25 and 40 years, and wore her hair "in a ponytail tied with a blue and white print ribbon" at the time of death. Without a name, the woman becomes known as the Isdal Woman.[/quote] [url]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39369429?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook[/url] The article is really long, and fucking interesting. Its like a sherlock holmes story.

It would be amazing to discover who this woman might've been. Kudos to the police and other experts still at work to determine her identity.

No point in trying to bring charges for it, as after 46 years whoever did it is long gone, but it'd be wonderful to crack the case and figure it all out. Put a name to the headstone, as it were.

[QUOTE=TestECull;52223538]No point in trying to bring charges for it, as after 46 years whoever did it is long gone, but it'd be wonderful to crack the case and figure it all out. Put a name to the headstone, as it were.[/QUOTE] entire thing reeks of cold war espionage even if they find out what happened, they can't charge anyone

From what I'm seeing: She shadowed Germany navy officers, she was capable of speaking accented English and spoke German, and she was carrying a German brand of epilepsy meds. This reeks of Stasi.

[Quote] Tormod Bønes, one of the forensic investigators[/quote] What an oddly fitting name

[QUOTE=Jund;52223770]entire thing reeks of cold war espionage even if they find out what happened, they can't charge anyone[/QUOTE] It probably is. Someone else died just like this in front of a train. Out in fucking nowhere near a missile base, and all tags cut off the clothes, absolutely no id, not reported missing. Only thing they know was that his cigarettes was eastern bloc (he even cut off the part that identified the cigarettes), and that he probably came by hiding in a truck.

[QUOTE=Oscar Lima Echo;52223899]It probably is. Someone else died just like this in front of a train. Out in fucking nowhere near a missile base, and all tags cut off the clothes, absolutely no id, not reported missing. Only thing they know was that his cigarettes was eastern bloc (he even cut off the part that identified the cigarettes), and that he probably came by hiding in a truck.[/QUOTE] they had a bit more to work with in this case they managed to obtain her suitcase containing german, norwegian, belgian, british, and swiss currency. they found the various aliases she used at different hotels, and she appears to be german (or at least had some connection to germany)