182: Foreign Fatalities: The Isdal Woman
Corpus Delicti
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4.4 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Sources:
BBC World Service - Death in Ice Valley - The Isdal woman's many identities
Norway makes international appeal to solve 46-year-old mystery (thelocal.no)
If You've Never Heard Of The Case Of The Isdal Woman, It's One Of The Most Odd Cases You'll Ever See (buzzfeed.com)
Death in Ice Valley: New clues in Isdal Woman mystery - BBC News
Do you remember this woman? – NRK Dokumentar
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's Jen. |
| 0:24.8 | And this is Lindsay. |
| 0:26.0 | And this is Corpus Delicti. |
| 0:27.4 | Welcome back to our foreign fatality episode series. |
| 0:31.7 | This series, we talk about mysteries and deaths abroad. |
| 0:37.0 | So this week, we are going to go to a place where we have not been |
| 0:41.9 | yet. I think I've said that every time now, but every time it's true. So this time we are going to |
| 0:47.9 | Bergen, Norway. And this story is about the Istel woman, and this case has yet to be solved. |
| 0:55.7 | This was not planned, but in the news, what, yesterday or today, a person from Noray shot somebody, |
| 1:04.7 | did a mass shooting with a bow and arrow. Was that in Norway? That was in Norway. I saw that. That is, yeah, that's wild. |
| 1:14.0 | So crazy things happen in Norway and this will not be an exception. So November 29th, |
| 1:21.2 | 1970, a man and his two young daughters. Now, they were just hiking along the foothills of the North Face Mountain |
| 1:29.1 | in Norway. This is actually known as Ice Valley, I guess because of the glaciers in that area, |
| 1:35.7 | but it's more commonly known to the locals as Death Valley. Now, it got this nickname because |
| 1:41.7 | it was a very popular spot for people to commit suicide |
| 1:44.9 | in and around the Middle Ages, but skipped forward to the 1960s, and also a group of hikers |
| 1:52.8 | fell to their death from the high cliffs there. |
| 1:56.0 | So where our story takes us is at the bottom of those really tall cliffs. Now, while hiking, this |
| 2:04.1 | small hiking group, this family noticed the smell of burnt flesh. And it was actually one of the |
| 2:10.0 | daughters who came across a woman whose remains were charred. They hurried back to the town in |
| 2:16.5 | Bergen and immediately notified the police. |
| 2:19.3 | So right off the bat, this is interesting because it's Ice Valley, but then there's a charred |
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