The Billionaire's Wife: Kidnapping or Murder?
Red Collar
Catherine Townsend
4.6 • 604 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Halloween morning, October 31st, 2018, in Lurenchog, Norway. |
| 0:10.0 | Let me pause for a moment to say, I know that I'm going to be contacted by Norwegian people telling me my pronunciation is not correct. |
| 0:17.0 | I am doing my best, so please bear with me. |
| 0:20.0 | Lurinshog is a quiet suburb of Oslo. It's the kind of |
| 0:24.5 | place where people feel really safe. Everyone kind of knows their neighbors. It's not the type of place |
| 0:30.5 | that has a lot of violent crime. At a quiet house near the lake, 68-year-old Anne Elizabeth Hogan was getting ready to start her day. |
| 0:40.5 | Her husband, Tom Hogan, had already left for work. He worked at the Futurum Business Park, |
| 0:45.5 | which was about an eight-minute drive from their house. Now, Tom Hogan is one of Norway's |
| 0:50.6 | richest men. He made his money through the company Elcraft, and in 2018, |
| 0:56.6 | the financial magazine Capital estimated his fortune at nearly 1.7 billion Norwegian |
| 1:02.4 | Crohner, which translates to about $200 million. But even though they were extremely wealthy, |
| 1:07.6 | the Huggins were not flashy. They weren't living like some billionaire family in Miami |
| 1:12.7 | or West Palm Beach, in a gated community. They lived in exactly the same house they lived in before |
| 1:18.2 | Tom made his fortune. So there were no fences. There was no big grand estate. And crucially, |
| 1:24.6 | there was no security system. Visitors could actually drive right up to the |
| 1:28.6 | house. Before we go further, I want to pause for a second and talk about this setting. In Norway, |
| 1:34.7 | I've really noticed that people with large family fortunes tend to live much more modestly than |
| 1:40.9 | many of their counterparts here in the U.S. Now, part of that could be because in Norway, |
| 1:45.9 | tax records are public. Everyone knows exactly how much tax everyone else has paid. And so these |
| 1:52.6 | families who are worth a lot of money tend to be a little more low-key than their U.S. counterparts. |
| 1:58.6 | So this can be a good thing because it would make the Hagen seem relatable. On the |
| 2:03.7 | other hand, it also means they didn't have a security system when they most needed it. All someone |
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