Where is Jón? - 04. Narrowing the Focus

Where is Jón?

RTÉ

Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.5 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

As the first weeks turned into the first months since Jón’s disappearance, his family struggle to come to terms with what’s going on. There were only four possibilities to explain Jón’s disappearance - he took his own life, he was involved in an accident, someone killed him or he intentionally vanished. As we begin to examine each possibility, things start to become a little clearer…

Credits: Where is Jón? / Hvar er Jón? is written, reported and produced by Liam O’Brien and Anna Marsibil Clausen. Original music soundtrack is performed and composed by Úlfur Eldjárn, with special guest Unnur Jónsdóttir on cello. Sound design is by Peadar Carney. Production assistance from Johannes Olafsson, Þorgerður E. Sigurðardóttir and the RTÉ Documentary On One team. Audio Product Support by Nigel Wheatley. Marketing by Amy O’Driscoll, Maria Buckley and Kolbrún Vaka Helgadóttir. Design and creatives by John Kilkenny and Darragh Treacy. Publicity by Jilly McDonough. Sales by Graeme Bailey and Einar Logi Vignisson. Additional online editorial content by Anna Joyce. Episodes released weekly, each Monday.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm sorry.
0:07.0	Hi, I'm herenazzi.
0:09.0	Hello.
0:10.0	Hi, this is Liam.
0:11.0	Erin or Aron.
0:13.0	Ahron?
0:14.0	Yeah. Can you roll your tongue Liam?
0:16.0	Yeah, you can. Wow.
0:18.0	Not everybody can.
0:19.0	No.
0:20.0	Oh, definitely not.
0:21.8	We are back in Janas apartment in Inki-Hatli, outside Reikivik, where Yohn lived before he went missing.
0:29.1	I used to be able to do, like, the triple one.
0:32.2	In our previous episode, we met Yon's two daughters, Helena and Julia.
0:39.9	But Yon was actually a father of four.
0:46.6	I would argue that he is more of a dad than my real dad. So what kind of a dad was he?
0:56.3	The best you could ask for. This is Aron, Janah's youngest son, who was about seven years old when Yohn moved in with his mom, Jana.
1:02.1	And Yon just began raising him and his older brother Thors did as his own children.
1:05.5	Yeah, I just remember him looking like a big teddy bear.
1:12.0	He really enjoyed making little jokes and making sure that us kids were happy.
1:14.1	He loved to make people laugh.
1:16.1	He was kind, caring.
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