In this thread I will post about some of the more infamous murder cases in Norwegian history, usually in criminal cases here, a lot of information is with held from the public, but I'll do my best to present each one with accurate information and pictures if there are any available.
Murder of Rigmor Johnsen, Oslo 7. desember 1957
Victim: Rigmor Johnsen
7. december 1957 at 01:25, Firemen were called out too Skippergata 6 B, Oslo in response to a fire, at the scene they found the body of 16 year old Rigmor stuffed under a charred sofa, she had been strangled to death, she also had bite marks on her upper chest and light burns on her hands and legs.
Bite mark on Rigmor's left breast
Rigmor's clothes, with visible blood and burn marks
Suspect: Fredrik Fasting Torgersen
23 year old Fredrik Fasting Torgersen had a criminal record and he was the main suspect in the Rigmor case, based on the evidence at the time linking him to the scene he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison(max 21 years) and 10 years of preventive detention for the murder of Rigmor Johnsen, he served 16 and a half years of the sentence and was released in 1974, he insist on his innocence and have requested his case be resumed five times(1958,1973, 1997, 2004 and 2007) all his appeals have been rejected.
Murder of Sigrid Heggheim, Trondheim 11. September 1976
Victim: Sigrid Heggheim
11. september 1976, the body of 20 year old Sigrid Heggheim was found strangled in a farm field. The case remained cold until 1981 when Fritz Moen who was already serving 16 years for murdering another woman in 1977 confessed to the killing.
Bruises on Sigrid Heggheim's face and body
Suspect: Fritz Moen
Fritz Moen was a deaf and mildly retarded man who was coerced and intimidated by the police into confessing to the murder of two women in 1976 and 1977, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for both murders, he was released in 1999 after having served 18 years of his sentence.
In 2000 Moen's attorney requested his case be re-examined, the sentence was overturned based on Police misconduct, a lack of any concrete evidence and he was aquitted for the murders in 2004 and in 2005 another man confessed to the murders on his deathbed, Fritz Moen died in 2007, 67 years old.
Reconstruction of the murder of Sigrid Heggheim as shown by Fritz Moen
Murder of Rigmor Johnsen, Oslo 7. desember 1957
Victim: Rigmor Johnsen
7. december 1957 at 01:25, Firemen were called out too Skippergata 6 B, Oslo in response to a fire, at the scene they found the body of 16 year old Rigmor stuffed under a charred sofa, she had been strangled to death, she also had bite marks on her upper chest and light burns on her hands and legs.
Bite mark on Rigmor's left breast
Rigmor's clothes, with visible blood and burn marks
Suspect: Fredrik Fasting Torgersen
23 year old Fredrik Fasting Torgersen had a criminal record and he was the main suspect in the Rigmor case, based on the evidence at the time linking him to the scene he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison(max 21 years) and 10 years of preventive detention for the murder of Rigmor Johnsen, he served 16 and a half years of the sentence and was released in 1974, he insist on his innocence and have requested his case be resumed five times(1958,1973, 1997, 2004 and 2007) all his appeals have been rejected.
Murder of Sigrid Heggheim, Trondheim 11. September 1976
Victim: Sigrid Heggheim
11. september 1976, the body of 20 year old Sigrid Heggheim was found strangled in a farm field. The case remained cold until 1981 when Fritz Moen who was already serving 16 years for murdering another woman in 1977 confessed to the killing.
Bruises on Sigrid Heggheim's face and body
Suspect: Fritz Moen
Fritz Moen was a deaf and mildly retarded man who was coerced and intimidated by the police into confessing to the murder of two women in 1976 and 1977, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for both murders, he was released in 1999 after having served 18 years of his sentence.
In 2000 Moen's attorney requested his case be re-examined, the sentence was overturned based on Police misconduct, a lack of any concrete evidence and he was aquitted for the murders in 2004 and in 2005 another man confessed to the murders on his deathbed, Fritz Moen died in 2007, 67 years old.
Reconstruction of the murder of Sigrid Heggheim as shown by Fritz Moen
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