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Isdal Woman: The mystery death haunting Norway for 46 years

It was an international case, he said, and it would never be solved. And recorded live in Bergen, presenters Marit Higraff and Neil McCarthy will be answering questions from the audience. Clue four: The hotel forms It emerges that the woman had stayed in several hotels in Norway - using different aliases. We pass white, wooden houses, bridges and rock, and slowly the scenery becomes filled with snow and ice. It is an investigation into the identity of a woman whose body was discovered in Isdalen Valley Ice Valley in 1970.

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Image copyright Bergen State Archives Image copyright Bergen State Archives Police also find the remains of a pair of rubber boots and nylon stockings. There weren't too many foreign tourists in Bergen then - and the fact the woman seemed wealthy, and well-travelled, sparked a lot of speculation. But that doesn't mean it wasn't her. Join David as he works to understand why the initial. Even now, the memory of his reaction makes her emotional. But it is the positioning of the objects that leaves the strongest impression on Tormod Bønes, one of the forensic investigators.

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Everyone in town knew her name, and now everyone in town is a suspect. Now listeners have found more. Image copyright Stephen Missal It's a mystery that has intrigued Norway for nearly 50 years. Additional reporting by Amelia Butterly and Anna Doble. In the hills above Bergen surrounded by tall pine trees, large icicles hanging from the branches, we are back on the trail of the Isdal Woman. The documents in the box turned out to be copies of police documents.

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The way it had been buried made him think it had been hidden deliberately. Fenella Lorch wasn't her real name. All of them, he says were wearing clothes more suited to a visit to town, rather than the outdoors. He'd previously taken his detector to other areas nearby but not found anything. And since most hotels required guests to show a passport and fill in a check-in form, this means she would have had several fake passports.

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Even the prescription sticker on the eczema cream, which would have shown the name of the doctor and the patient, has been scraped off. Was the woman monitoring top secret trials of the Norwegian Penguin missile, which took place from the late 1960s? Adding to the mystery is the fact that the production labels have been cut off her clothes and rubbed off the bottles at the scene. But it's only a theory. The boots he sold her appear to match the boots found on the body in the Isdalen valley. He will speak with us off the record, but otherwise he asks his daughter to tell this uncomfortable family story.

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We know that Cecilie's grandfather worked in the Bergen Police and, although not central to the investigation himself, was close friends with one of the main investigators on the case. Her death is likely to have been a painful one. Instead, it appears to be a record of the places the woman visited. None of the department stores can find a match. That was in 1970 and the mystery was never solved. Police believe that the umbrella found near the body was also bought from the store.

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He also recalls a strong smell emanating from the woman - which, later, he thinks may have been garlic. Season 1: When Elizabeth Andes was found murdered in her Ohio apartment in 1978, police and prosecutors decided within hours it was an open-and-shut case. Image copyright Paul S Amundsen A woman's badly burnt body is found in a remote spot, Ice Valley, near Bergen in Norway. I think she died at the place where the fire was. The beeping is insistent and the quality of the sound tells him what kind of metal may be hidden underground.

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He has a story to tell. It turned out that his uncle had looked into the case many years ago as a journalist. There are so many strange details. They were friends already but now they meet up with a purpose: to try to solve the case of the Isdal Woman. Additional research by Johanna Keskitalo All pictures copyright. Image copyright Kripos Clue six: The autopsy Meanwhile, investigators complete an examination of the woman's body.

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The Death in Ice Valley team then took it to the police. And she smelled quite strongly of garlic. The autopsy also finds that the woman had never been pregnant or had a child. Help us with the ongoing investigation at: www. They didn't look Norwegian, I was thinking southern Europe. Some of them we can't resist but follow up, though they don't always lead anywhere. This is the cold and remote location at the centre of a mystery which has puzzled Norway for half a century.

Isdal Woman: The mystery death haunting Norway for 46 years

Some people were coming up the mountain. The story has been made famous around the world in , which shone a light on the work of amateur genetic genealogist Barbara Rae-Venter. . The excitement in the laboratory dissipated. Maria, a student in Bergen, wants to know how we decide which leads to investigate. Marit and Neil investigate new clues which have come from you.