I just re-listened to all 12 Death in Ice Valley podcast episodes on Youtube to see if I missed anything pertinent. The one thing that still bothers me is why was she burned alive?
Even if she was drugged she was still breathing. This to me is more of a sadistic, cold blooded act by someone with no empathy. I don't see any of the Cold War era spy agencies doing this. Not even the KGB,East German Stasi, Israeli Mossad etc. There are 1,000 more efficient ways to eliminate someone in 1970 than luring them up into a forrest and setting them on fire. Maybe a terrorist group, or organized crime. Medical examiner evidence points to her being burned twice too. First attempt only burned her lower half, the second burned her face off so she was unrecognizable. I actually like the podcast's former KGB spy's theory that she was more of a courier, so she would have been disposable to whoever she was working for. I feel someone locally, who knew the Isdal Valley well is also involved. I'd be curious to know what possible local Neo Nazi type groups could of been in Bergen, also any PLO, Fedayeen etc? The PLO had just been kicked out of Jordan a few months earlier, and some scattered into Europe and Scandinavia.
So what do we know so far based on all the tests done up to this date done on her tissue, and teeth? As well as her personal items found around her body, and in her luggage?
1. Born in the Nuremberg area of early Nazi Germany around 1930 + - 4 years (age 40-45 at death)
2. Haplogroup H24 maternal line ancestors came from (Romance language countries of Spain,France,Germany, *Romani people of Spain) also Ireland,Scotland, and England
Described as looking exotic, dark hair, dark eyes (Southern European) *Romani WWII refugee?
3. She moved to Western Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium by her teens (why?)
learned to write in a French speaking school (where?)
4. Teeth had numerous gold fillings (exclusive to Germany, Eastern Europe, South America)
5. Had a religious picture of The Madonna in her luggage (presumed Catholic *Romani?
Is this why they gave her a Catholic funeral in Bergen?
6. Her watch, earrings, and ring were not valuable, and left near the corpse. The watch has been erroneously reported as being set to common "10:10" time. The watch examiner did that after he examined the semi burned watch. I believe it stopped at 12:45
7. Empty bottle of Norwegian specialty St.Hallvard herbal based potato vodka (80 proof) near the corpse, along with some kind of local Bergen bakery mini cake. I read maybe something called Mandalkake? not 100% sure. The actual Bergen police report in Norwegian is very hard to get ahold of to confirm any of this btw.
8. No containers for anything that could hold something flammable to set her on fire. Both water jugs contained only water. I thought about the vodka being used, but the alcohol would burn off way to fast to do that kind of damage to her skin. There were matches at the scene too. But they appeared to have been used to burn her plastic passport holder, and some other papers. The only thing close to an actual highly flammable substance was smelled on her cossack style fur hat which according to the report was found underneath her? Which does not make a lot of sense to me unless she was laid on top of it by her killer/s
9. The only really unusual things found in her luggage were a scalpel, an Austrian made common spoon, a few wigs, fake prescription glasses (with her thumb print) a box of German made matches from a well know erotic shop in Berlin (could have picked up at any restaurant, bar etc. Many West German sailors were in Bergen in the time) several pairs of "nice" underwear (not the erotic kind) scarves, sweaters, shoes, shirts, a sowing kit from a stay at a Swiss hotel, 100 Deutsche Marks, 135 Norwegian Kroner, Betnovat Norwegian prescription eczema cream (label destroyed), cosmetics (unknown retail) various Belgian, British and Swiss Coins, a few maps with her writing, and her notebook with the shorthand itinerary of her travels and stays.
10. 50-70 Fenemal brand sleeping pills in her body at autopsy, and another 12 found next to her body.
(pink colored not sold in Norway, but UK and some other countries *unconfirmed)
11. Stylish rubber seilerstøvel "sailor" boots found near her confirmed to have been the same bought in a Stavanger shop days earlier.
12. Described as speaking broken English, and an Eastern European/Balkan dialect
13. *Used the word "Kreisleitung" for a Belgian address on one of her hotel registrations. *confirmed this word was not used anywhere other than East Germany (GDR) in 1970 connected to East German Stasi? before that only in Nazi occupied zones of WWII
14. Only stayed in specific Catholic/Christian hotels in Norway with very strict religious rules (no drinking etc) *She would NOT stay in any of these if she was a prostitute. So I think we can drop that theory safely
15. The Bergen police were abruptly shut down from further investigation after just three weeks. This has led many to postulate that they were blocked by a higher authority in the Norwegian government for still unknown reasons. But the logical connection would be international matter.
As some experts including myself have theorized the country of Israel was involved. One of the spy experts on the podcast (Professor Dorrell?) said that a likely candidate would be Mossad, because they were known to 1. Be in Norway in 1970 keeping tabs on the Fedayeen groups like the PLO, and still hunting down former Nazis and other war criminals abroad. 2. They were one of the few intelligence agencies to hire a lot of women (Sylvia Raphael Lillehammer Affair 1973)
3. They used faked, stolen, forged passports for operations. My only real problem with her connection to Mossad would be that I suspect she was sent from the GDR (East Germany) that would put her on the other team against Israel and the West (NATO), but certainly anything is possible. The coincidence of the Norwegian NATO Penguin missile tests to her visits is just too easy in my opinion. She was not a Cold War era spy, a courier passing info maybe. But it still does not answer my original question, why would she be burned alive? Which group discussed would have done something like that?
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