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15 May 1998, at 05:24. Date, year and time seated nailed. It was his paper on fire in a residential building. At the time he was 42 years old and police chief, and the only police officer in the office who had not leisure. He came out, and led firefighters. Pretty soon it became clear that a person was missing in the fire. Rasmussen knew very well who it was.

– Marie-Louise Bendiktsen worked in the call center in the municipality, and therefore I was often in contact with her. She lived a quiet, retired life after being widowed four years earlier, says Rasmussen.

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was killed

remains of the 59-year-old woman was found in the burnt part of the house, where there was once two bedrooms and a laundry room. Friday 17th July Rasmussen attended the autopsy of the deceased at the University Hospital of North Norway – basically a clean routine autopsy. But one was the tragic fire so much, much more.

It was a murder – a brutal murder case. Marie-Louise Bendiktsen proved to be killed with several fatal stab wounds. The fire was probably affixed to hide the crime.

– There is no doubt that it is a violent murder. It is exercised significantly more violence, and one can well call bestial murder, says Rasmussen today, 15 years later.

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The deceased was also found biological material, which interpreted that she could have been the victim of a sexual assault. Twelve human hair, which belonged Bendiktsen or some of her most intimate, were also found. It was turned full killings alarm, and a dozen investigative projects were initiated.

One of the projects was to collect hair samples and blood samples of all the men who had stayed in the community when the murder happened. A total of nearly 2,000 men aged 15 to 72 years called.

– only problem was that the DNA evidence we had was so damaged that it was not possible to identify someone with it. It was only suited to rule. In the end we were left with 21 people we could not exclude. But research has shown that we currently do not have any reason to suspect any of these, said the sheriff.

Edge over

Fifteen years have passed since the murder. 650 people questioned in the case. Over four thousand people are registered in person to the police base. Have been received 747 tips. Nevertheless, the perpetrator free.

– Marie-Louise was last seen alive on Monday 13th July evening. The murder happened right in the joint. There were events and festivals, there were itinerant doorstep sellers, it was moved away salangsværinger on a visit to his home town. It was a huge mapping material we were going through. And the perpetrator had several days ahead, sugar Rasmussen.

Several investigators from the Criminal Police, police officers from other parts of the region – at most fifty people worked together with the case. Surveys and interviews in both domestic and international, scrutiny of garbage cans looking for the murder weapon.

There was an extensive, demanding and at times dirty job – but someone had to do it. The question of who killed the 59-year-old widow, was answered.

Mann observed

Rasmussen was himself in Sweden and spoke with Roma, who had been in the area at the time when the murder happened. Another job was to identify the male asylum seekers in Salangen. Several of them were on vacation or went on vacation right after the murder. There were many threads that were unwound in, many of which were spoken with, so the police got so good overview as possible of people and events in the current July days.

– We believe we have an overview of the vast majority of which were in the area during that time. But we still have one male person as we have no control of. On Wednesday 15th July was a man of European appearance seen going from the high school down the Sjøvegan. The man had a brown, short leather jacket and beige trousers, says Rasmussen.

He says that the man had a slightly odd gait. Police have never managed and accounted for that.

Both the sheriff and the old colleague Tordis Sjøseth carries a hope that murder case someday solved.

Photo: Linda Pedersen / NRK

Used clairvoyant

Of all the witnesses are questioned in Sjøvegan-murder case, some more specific than others. At one point in the investigation, the police let the clairvoyant Grete Sandvoll from Målselv be let to fire ruins, hoping that she could “see” something that helped them on.

Sandvoll had at that time participated in the TV program “Sensation of murder,” and impressed television viewers with very much detail other unsolved murder cases.

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– Sandvoll is the daughter of former sheriff Torkild Sandvoll in Målselv. She wanted to help, and after a careful consideration, we let her do it. We had decided that each stone was lifted and checked. She came here and was treated as an ordinary witness, says Rasmussen.

Exactly what Sandvoll so, Rasmussen will not comment, but said she gave a picture of the action and the perpetrator.

– The information she gave us was not of such a nature that we can emphasize that the further the investigation. It was very vague, and there was no name, said the sheriff.

Yet he did not rule out that information to the clairvoyant can come in handy one day.

Thought Run

The unsolved murder mystery has for fifteen years characterized his entire life – both as a cop and family man. 57-year-old, who was born and raised in Lyngseidet, moved to Salangen that newly qualified police officer in 1982. He has a wife and three adult daughters soon. Sjøvegan-killing has been heavy to carry, and mind driving has been troublesome.

– My wife is good at getting me to understand that I have to disconnect and then. But as a police officer sitting in the back row – that serious crimes such as this must be solved. That justice must be a full and. So mind is there all the time, admits sheriff.

Unanswered Questions

murder weapon was never found. Inside Marie-Louise Bendiktsen kitchen was no blades missing. Her house was in a dead end, well below the highway.

The unanswered questions are many: Was she a random victim, or she knew the perpetrator? Was the murder a carefully planned action, or took it on impulse? If it was planned: What was in that case design? Who wanted to kill the pleasant, peaceful grandmother? And if it was an impulsive act, why bar the competent knife? And why this “gone over”, this brutality?

– We conducted interviews with professional experts, with a view to getting a personality analysis of the perpetrator. All the violence makes us think that there is some kind of affect, any aggression. It may be drugs involved. There can be so many things. We obviously the Ad Notam like everything else. We reject pretty much nothing in the case, but note that here we face a murder that certainly can be described as bestial.

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perpetrator

So how did the killer today – Fifteen years after he killed Marie-Louise Bendiktsen? Is he still? Where does he live? And how he manages to keep this terrible secret day after day – year after year? Will he ever to be revealed? His Roar Rasmussen, who today is the sheriff in Salangen, has not lost hope.

– Interest statistically we projected on our site. There are very few murders in Norway that are not resolved sooner or later. But we must be realistic. We came on very late and important information was lost. We are probably addicted to a confession, said the sheriff.

He confirmed that the murder case can now be resumed after it has new information. However, Rasmussen will not go into what the new information is about.

Tordis Sjøseth has fond memories of his colleague Marie-Louise Bendiktsen.

Photo: Linda Pedersen / NRK

The now 78 year old woman knew Marie-Louise Bendiktsen very well. Bendiktsen worked in the call center, Sjøseth on social security.

– We had the windows so that we could open them, so we talked with each other, remember the older lady with a smile.

Four

years before Marie-Louise Bendiktsen was killed, she was a widow. Her husband, Earl, who was the former mayor of Salangen, died in January 1994. Earl Bendiktsen was boss Tordis Sjøseth, and thus their lives were intertwined in many ways.

– Marie and Earl were outstanding people, good people. I was often visiting them and they had a good home. Therefore, it was so horrible what happened, she said.

Fifteen years have passed since the murder of the 59-year-old widow and grandmother, who lived in Police Ground 1 on Sjøvegan. Tordis Sjøseth hope the mystery will be solved.

– It must in that case be if the person who made it, the remorse and reports. That he should do, consider going with a like that should be in as many years. He’s got to have it cruelly hurt. So he has to be able to report, says 78-year-old.

She says that by the time the murder was terrible, and that many were afraid.

– In the first period after we probably suspicious. But now it has gone that long. Society has calmed down, and Salangen is a nice, safe community to live in, both young and older, she said.