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Cold Case Files
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4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
The Prosecutors is a true crime podcast with a different point of view. Every week, Alice and Brett bring their unique perspective as prosecutors to the most famous cold case mysteries of all time. Murder, mayhem, disappearances, you name it. If it's true crime, they're on the case.
This episode is one of the greatest mysteries in true crime. A woman is found dead on a Norwegian hillside, her body badly burned. But how she died is only the beginning. Coded documents, multiple identities, and mysterious meetings have left us to wonder -- who is the Isdal woman? Listen to a new episode of the Prosecutors every Tuesday.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Brett and I'm Alice and we are the prosecutors. |
| 0:11.1 | Today on the prosecutors, it's one of true crimes greatest mysteries. |
| 0:27.9 | A woman's charred remains are located in a remote valley just outside of Bergen, Norway. |
| 0:33.9 | In a twisty investigation, clues about her identity unfold like a series of riddles. |
| 0:39.8 | Over 50 years later, we ask, who is the Isdale Woman? |
| 1:04.5 | Music Hello everybody and welcome to this episode of the prosecutors. |
| 1:13.6 | I'm Brett, and I'm joined as always by my bedorinde, or bedorinde, I think is actually how you pronounce it. |
| 1:15.5 | Co-host, Alice. |
| 1:17.3 | That was really good. |
| 1:19.8 | Whatever language that was, I felt like you nailed it. |
| 1:20.9 | Well, that's Norwegian. |
| 1:27.1 | Literally, apparently, in Norwegian, it means to stress the or, but... |
| 1:28.0 | No, I think it means, I think that's how you pronounce it. |
| 1:32.0 | Oh, oh, I see. |
| 1:34.3 | Oh, I thought it's like if you're rowing, you put stress on the oar. |
| 1:38.0 | You are so sick. |
| 1:38.4 | I don't know that you should be recording right now. |
| 1:41.1 | Well, it literally means charming or adorable. |
| 1:44.1 | And you are charming and adorable. Or |
| 1:45.4 | and or. What was that? Or and or. Well, they're like Vikings over in Norway. So, you know, |
| 1:51.7 | they like boats. Well, how on point? Because we're talking about Norway today. So well done. |
| 1:57.0 | I don't think I knew any Norwegian words before tonight, but now I know Benderda. |
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