WEBVTT - S04 Episode 17: Appearing is Being (Pt. 1 of 2) 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:13.680 The night air was still, save for the ghostly clanking 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:16.480 of the boats in the harbor as they bobbed gently 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:20.040 up and down in the ice cold water. Up above, 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:24.720 thick dark clouds swelled as a ceaseless barrage of snow 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:30.560 fell steadily onto everything in sight. Just then a door 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:34.159 swung open, rupturing for a moment the silence of the 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:38.640 sleepy Icelandic fishing town with a blast of ecstatic rock music. 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:43.280 Two young men stumbled out of the doorway onto the 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:47.400 snow covered pavement as the door whipped shut behind them, 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:53.240 muffling once more the music from inside. Laughing together, one 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:57.000 of the men, eighteen year old good munda Insen, took 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.600 a swig from a bottle of brandy, while the other 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:03.080 up a cigarette and gazed out across the harbor for 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:06.440 a moment, before the pair then headed off into the 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:11.800 snow elsewhere. In the early hours of that Sunday of 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:16.760 January nineteen seventy four, in half naft Jordia, a quiet 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:21.280 port town ten kilometers south of Reikyevik, eighteen year old 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:27.240 Urdla Boladotte was returning home. Urdler had been out with 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:32.000 friends at Kluberin, a popular nightclub in Reikyovik, before getting 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:36.240 bored and deciding to head back to her apartment. Urdler 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:39.440 shared the flat with her boyfriend's Civar, but since he 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.520 wasn't home at the time and also had their only key, 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:46.400 she made her way to the basement window, prized it open, 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:52.080 and squeezed inside. Finally in, Urdler stumbled toward her bed 0:01:52.720 --> 0:02:01.200 and collapsed exhausted. It was sometimes time later when Urdler 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.400 was stirred from sleep by the sound of voices speaking 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:10.079 in hushed tones right outside her apartment. Alone in the darkness, 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.680 an anxious Urdler strained to hear what they were saying, 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:19.280 Though she couldn't be sure, it sounded like Christian, Albert 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:24.280 and Trigvey, friends of her boyfriend Cyber. From what little 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:27.200 snippets she could make out, they seemed to be talking 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:30.960 about Urdler, speculating whether she might be in or not. 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:37.400 Urdler froze in fear. Though she knew them well enough, 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:41.240 she'd never spent time with them without Cyber, who told 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:44.800 her in the past to be wary of them. Unsure 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.639 what on earth they might be doing there, Urdler could 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:51.120 only listen in terror as she heard the men's footsteps 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:56.960 edging closer to the apartment. Just then, Urdler bolted up, 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:01.280 gasped for air in the dark and silent, her hair 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:05.360 thickly matted with sweat, She scoured the flat for any 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:09.040 sign of intruders as her eyes slowly adjusted to the darkness. 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:13.040 It was only then that she realized with relief it 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:16.600 had just been a bad dream. There had been no 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:22.240 voices outside her apartment. Then she noticed the damp warmth 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:26.280 under her bed covers and realized with horror that she'd 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:32.240 soiled herself. In shame and embarrassment, Urdler quickly cleaned herself 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:37.000 up and stripped the bed, checking that the coast was clear. 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.240 She ran to the outside beIN and threw away the 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:45.360 bed sheets before returning to her apartment. As all about 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:57.160 the snow continued to fall. By the following day, Monday, 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:01.400 January twenty eighth, good Munda had yet returned to his 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:05.560 home on the eastern fringes of Raikyevik. Having not heard 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:09.400 from his son since Saturday night, Guthmund's father called his 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:11.400 friends to see if they might know where he was, 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:15.880 but each of them gave the same dispiriting answer they 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:21.360 hadn't heard from him either. The next day, guthmund Ineson 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:27.279 was declared missing. Over the next few days, police worked 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:31.040 hard to retrace the young man's steps. Some friends had 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.720 seen him leaving the club with another man who they 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:37.400 didn't know. That pair had then later been seen by 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.200 two young women who were driving back to Raykyevik at 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:43.440 the time. The women had pulled over to give the 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.000 men a lift, but having seen how drunk they were 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:50.040 in the end, decided to head off without them. A 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:53.719 few hours later, guthmund was seen again, this time on 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:57.240 his own, walking unsteadily along the main road out of 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:02.320 Harnaftjorda in the direction of ray Yevik, much as it 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:06.240 is now. Back in the nineteen seventies, Iceland, with a 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:09.760 population of roughly two hundred thousand people and with one 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:14.039 of the most equitable societies in the contemporary world, also 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.800 had one of the world's lowest rates for violent crime, 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:22.200 with murder being virtually non existent. With it also having 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:26.279 been snowing and below freezing the night Gudmunda disappeared, the 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:29.240 police had good reason to assume that he'd simply got 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:33.560 lost on his way home, somewhere between hannaf Giorda and Raikyevik, 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.440 though there was a main road joining them, Officers turned 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:41.560 their attention to the lava fields that surrounded the small 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:46.000 fishing town, a perilous, other worldly stretch of moss covered 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:50.760 crags and deep fishes hidden under the snow. For the 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:55.160 next week, over two hundred people, marshaled by Gudmunder's brother, 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.440 joined the police in their search for the young man's body, 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:03.800 aided by a number of Coastguard helicopters. However, with over 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:07.039 sixty centimeters of snow being dumped in the area since 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:12.760 Gudmunda had disappeared, it was effectively hopeless. By the following week, 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:22.440 the search was called off. It was a few days 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:27.719 later in February that Ertler's boyfriend, Cyver Sizelski, arrived home 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.520 from a trip abroad, only to be confronted by the 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:34.799 burly figure of Christian Peterson, head of customs at Iceland's 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:40.599 Kevlevik Airport. Peterson seemed to be unusually fixated with the 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:43.520 eighteen year old Cyvre, who he believed was a key 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:46.320 figure in what he considered to be a rapidly expanding 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:51.040 drug problem in Iceland. Just a few months before, Peterson 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:54.480 had stopped both Cyber and Ertler on their return home 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.680 from a joint trip to the US. Both had been 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.800 strip searched as a result, with Ertler being allowed to 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:06.400 go home straight after but Cyver being kept behind. It 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:09.760 wouldn't be until a week later that Urtler saw him again. 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:15.160 As Cyver later explained, Peterson had accused him of smuggling morphine, 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.240 but when he couldn't find anything, had taken him to 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:22.160 Siddhamuli Prison, a holding prison in the center of Reikyevik. 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:27.200 Once there, Cyber claimed he was routinely beaten up and 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:31.120 kept in solitary confinement, until finally being released a week 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:35.600 later when the police couldn't keep him any longer. Though 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:39.040 this arrest of Cyber had undoubtedly been heavy handed and 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:46.760 without justification, Peterson's suspicions weren't entirely unfounded. Crime related to alcohol, 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:50.280 which was heavily regulated by the government, and other drugs, 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.520 had been increasing in recent years as a result of 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:58.280 the expanding communication and tourism industries, which were exposing more 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:01.360 people than ever to other ultures and ways of life. 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:06.000 Just as beer, of which any with an alcohol content 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.000 higher than two point twenty five percent was banned by 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:13.080 the government, was becoming more popular so too were people 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:18.720 becoming interested in fashionable drugs like LSD and cannabis. Though 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:22.440 Cyver didn't drink or take other drugs himself, he had 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:26.440 dabbled in selling stolen alcohol, which in his capacity as 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:30.440 a customs officer, had first brought Cyver to Peterson's attention. 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:35.679 He also often traveled abroad to buy cannabis to sell 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:40.880 back in Iceland. However, when Peterson picked Cyver up that February, 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:44.240 it wasn't for either of these things, but rather for 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.520 a recent jewelry heist that he was convinced Cyver had 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:52.880 been involved with, just as before. Having denied all involvement, 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:57.680 Cyver was once again taken to Siddamuli Prison, only this 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:01.240 time he was kept in solitary confiman for a month, 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:05.760 only being allowed to leave when he gave police incriminating 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:15.720 details about a friend of his. Civa and Ergler had 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:19.000 first met in the early seventies when Civar was going 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:22.880 out with a friend of Ergler's called Hulda, not thinking 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.840 much about him at the time, The pair later became 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.760 close when Hulda pulled out of a trip that she 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.880 and Urdler had planned to take to America and Civar 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:36.200 took the ticket instead. Though the pair had separate plans 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:40.160 to visit people in the US, Civar eventually followed Urtler 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:43.800 to Washington, d C. It was there at a party 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:48.800 one night that Ergla's drink was spiked with LSD. Feeling 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:52.840 suddenly anxious, Urdler stumbled into a dark room in the 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:56.160 hope of finding somewhere to lie down when she tripped 0:09:56.160 --> 0:10:01.640 over somebody's legs. It was Cyvar, who had also inadvertently 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:05.760 drunk some of the l s D. After suggesting that 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.280 he and Urdler try and ride the trip out together, 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:11.480 the pair spent the rest of the evening lying next 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.520 to each other as they proceeded to recount the story 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:19.360 of their lives. Erdler would never again see Cyvar in 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:25.160 the same light. That night, the cocky, seemingly self assured 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:29.160 Saivar told Erdler all about his time growing up the 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.640 only family in his neighborhood that owned a t V 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.360 and how all the kids in the street used to 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:38.560 come and crowd around it, about those happy days when 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:40.920 as a young boy he used to play act and 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:44.880 mess about with his siblings, and about his Polish American 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.960 father who used to beat him mercilessly with a belt 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:53.440 whenever he stepped out of line. At school, Civar, who 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:57.800 had Jewish routes and had inherited his father's Eastern European looks, 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.719 was bullied for being different, and before long he was 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:08.000 skipping school. After befriending Albert Scarfteson and Chris jan Vedersen, 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:10.760 a tall boy with a reputation as one of the 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:14.640 harder kids at school, Civar, along with the other two, 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:18.480 spent more and more time playing truant and soon began 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:23.240 stealing from local shops, all the while at home, his 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:29.160 parents marriage was falling apart. Cyvar's father, Michael, had originally 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.920 come over from the US and had always felt an 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:37.640 outsider in Iceland. Becoming increasingly depressed and dissatisfied with his work, 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.520 he started to drink more and take his frustrations out 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:47.400 on the family and on Civar, especially. At fourteen, the 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:50.160 young Civar was sent to a boarding home for what 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:54.600 the state considered to be problem children. Many years later, 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.200 that same school would become the center of a horrific 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:02.480 social services scandal involving the physical and sexual abuse of 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:04.600 many of the boys who were forced to stay there. 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:11.240 Saivar told Ertler about all of it. It was while 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:14.240 he was staying at the boarding school that Saivar's father 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:19.160 was killed in a car crash. When the pair returned 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.559 home a few months later, Ertler got her first taste 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.360 of what being in a relationship with Saivar would entail, 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:31.760 being strip searched on arrival. However, despite all of that 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:36.440 and her family's concern at the burgeoning relationship, she'd fallen 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:47.480 completely in love with him after moving in together soon 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.800 after their return from the US. It wasn't long before 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:55.559 Ertler was being drafted in to Saivar's illicit schemes. With 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:59.199 her job at the Icelandic Post and Telephone company, Ertler 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:02.800 took the ounity to help move on or the alcohol 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.680 that Civar and his friends had stolen from the docks 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:10.800 by selling it to her colleagues. Meanwhile, Civar was devoting 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:14.200 more and more time to selling cannabis, often having to 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:19.160 leave Ertler for days on end for the pickups. In July, 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:23.560 Ertler discovered that he'd been cheating on her. When she 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:27.040 told him she was leaving him, he assaulted her, kicking 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:32.280 her in the stomach. Undeterred, Ertler followed through with her decision, 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.560 but before long the young couple were back together, with 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:41.320 the repentant Civar promising to be a better partner. To 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:44.640 that end, he wanted out at the drugs trade, which 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:48.360 had only ever really been just a way to make money. 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.680 His dreams, he explained to Ertler, was to one day 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:55.400 become a filmmaker, but to do that would need a 0:13:55.400 --> 0:14:00.920 lot more money. Having grown increasingly angry since his last arrest, 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:04.080 he also wanted to find a way to get back 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:07.640 at society after all the years of abuse and harassment 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:12.480 he'd suffered at its hands. Before long, he and Ertler 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:18.000 had devised a plan. One evening, after tampering with their 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.360 phone to make it sound as if they were calling 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:24.720 from abroad, the couple contacted the Icelandic Post and Telephone 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:28.960 company and requested half a million krona equivalent to fifty 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:32.280 thousand US dollars in today's money, to be sent to 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:36.480 a depot in Raikovik. A few days later, with a 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:41.160 simple false id, Ertler traveled to the depot and collected 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:45.320 the cash. The pair spent the night in an upmarket 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:50.640 hotel and treated themselves to room service to celebrate Over 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:54.480 the next few days, Sivar spent three hundred thousand krona 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:59.040 on film equipment, and Urtler bought a car. 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On November nineteenth, nineteen seventy four, in Kevlevic, 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:24.840 fifty kilometers southwest of Raikyevik, Thorda Ingamarsen arrived at the 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:28.400 home of his friend Geffener Ineson with the intention of 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:32.520 taking him out to watch a film. However, by the 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.920 time Thorda had made it to Geffner's house, his friend's 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:40.440 plans had changed, explaining vaguely that he wouldn't be able 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:43.040 to go now because he'd just been summoned to an 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:48.000 impromptu meeting at a cafe in Keflevik Harbor. Geffner apologized 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:53.680 for wasting his friend's time. Alarmingly, Geffner wouldn't say exactly 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.360 who he was meeting, only that he'd been asked to 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:59.800 come alone and on foot, and that he wasn't allowed 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:04.760 to tell anyone about it. Confused and concerned for his friend, 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:08.879 Thorda offered to drive Geffenner close to the cafe to 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:13.080 make sure nothing bad was about to happen. Having dropped 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:17.600 him off and satisfied that all was okay, Thorda returned home. 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:22.880 Moments later. The cafe's owner watched as Geffner entered the building, 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:26.280 clearly annoyed that whoever he was there to meet was 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:30.480 not there. Also, after buying a pack of cigarettes, he 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:35.600 promptly left. Fifteen minutes later, the owner watched as a 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:38.760 second man entered her cafe and asked to use the 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:42.080 pay phone. When the owner pointed out the phone at 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:44.920 the back of the room, the man duie headed over 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:48.919 to it and proceeded to make a phone call. Around 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:53.280 the same time, Geffener, now back at home, was overheard 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:56.120 by his wife and son taking a phone call from 0:17:56.119 --> 0:18:01.760 someone they didn't know. In the ensuing conversation, Geffener's wife, Goodney, 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.720 later stated that she heard him say something about already 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:09.760 having been there before. He relented, saying he will go again, 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:15.440 hanging up the phone without any explanation to Goodney, Geffenner 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.840 collected his car keys and drove off into the night. 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:24.840 The following day, Geffenner's abandoned red Ford quartina was found 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:28.040 parked two hundred meters from the Harbor Cafe with the 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:32.760 keys still in the ignition, but Geffner was never seen again. 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:44.040 A week later, Urdler and Civar were watching TV when 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:48.240 the story of Geffenner's disappearance came on the news. Civar 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:52.440 was unimpressed. Clearly, he said the man had just said 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.320 something he shouldn't have and had been bumped off because 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:59.119 of it. Urdler hadn't thought anything of it at the time, 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:02.600 since Ivar often liked to sound as if he had 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:06.800 first hand knowledge of such things. The couple had been 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.520 laying low for the last few weeks, waiting for any 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:13.400 heat from their crime to blow over. However, with Ertler's 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.760 connection to the post and telephone company, it hadn't taken 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:19.720 the police long to figure out who might have been involved. 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:24.280 A few days later, Erdler discovered that a warrant had 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:28.600 been issued for her and Civar's arrest. Knowing it would 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:31.200 only be a matter of time before they were pulled in, 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:35.520 Civar made the drastic suggestion that they flee immediately to 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:39.440 Copenhagen to stay with friends until the whole thing died down, 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:43.720 packing what few bits they had and changing what was 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:47.800 left of the money. In December, the couple, traveling separately 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:51.200 so as not to arouse suspicion, made their way to Denmark. 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:57.439 Back in Kevlovik police station, detective Voltire Sigurdson was looking 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:01.879 forward to a long needed break. As the lead investigator 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:06.280 into the disappearance of Geffener, Einesen Voltaire had overseen a 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:09.919 rather stilted operation that had been slow to get on 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:14.919 top of the case. Despite the suspicious circumstances surrounding the 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:18.320 man's disappearance. The team had failed to confirm if the 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:22.080 mysterious call he took shortly before he went missing had 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:26.520 indeed come from the cafe. Other lines of inquiry, such 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:29.119 as men whom Geffener's wife was having an affair with, 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:33.320 were not followed up, and a variety of conflicting eye 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:40.120 witness reports all contributed badly to the clumsy investigation. Relieved 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:42.679 to be taking a break from it all, Sigurdson was 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:45.320 only too happy to hand the reins of the investigation 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:50.960 to his colleague Halker Goodmanson and head of Customs Christian Petersen. 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:55.159 Petersen had been brought in due to his suspicions that 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:58.200 Geffener's disappearance might in some way be linked to the 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:03.680 illegal alcohol trade, which Sigurdson had dismissed. With Sigurdson now 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:07.960 out at the picture, Goodmanson and Peterson decided to pursue 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:13.520 the alcohol angle, following a tip that Geffener had once 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:16.080 been asked to suggest people who might be willing to 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:20.280 smuggle alcohol into the port. The police discovered he'd spent 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:24.800 a night at Kluburn nightclub in Reikyevich. Since he rarely 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:28.440 went out, there was reason to think this a little suspicious. 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:32.840 The link was also significant since one description of the 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:35.360 man who made the phone call from the Harbor cafe 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:39.400 on the night of Geffener's disappearance bore a striking resemblance 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:45.720 to one Magnus Leopoldsen, the manager of Klubrin. This line 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:49.200 of inquiry was quickly snuffed out, however, when it emerged 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:52.520 that the Klubrin building was leased from the ruling political 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:58.040 party at the time. Embarrassed by the connection, the Justice Department, 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:02.680 led by former Prime Minister to Olafur Johannassen, lent on 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:08.159 the Kevlovik police department to leave Kluburn alone. With no 0:22:08.240 --> 0:22:13.080 other major leads, in June nineteen seventy five, the investigation 0:22:13.520 --> 0:22:23.480 was effectively wound down. In Denmark, things had been good 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:26.720 at first for Urdler and Civar, with Urdler enjoying the 0:22:26.760 --> 0:22:31.159 relative sense of freedom the move had afforded. Before long, however, 0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:34.919 their money had run out and Urdler had begun to 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:39.359 suffer regular bouts of sickness. When she missed her next period, 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:44.040 she knew instantly she was pregnant. By March, with no 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:47.159 money to speak of, Urdler had been reduced to stealing 0:22:47.240 --> 0:22:51.160 tomatoes just to keep from starving. Worried for the health 0:22:51.200 --> 0:22:54.680 of the baby, Urgler had little option but to return home, 0:22:55.200 --> 0:23:00.320 whatever the consequences. But when she told Civar of this vision, 0:23:00.600 --> 0:23:04.080 he demanded she stay, having only heard recently that the 0:23:04.119 --> 0:23:08.400 police were still looking to arrest them. When she refused, 0:23:08.720 --> 0:23:11.880 he attacked her again, kicking her hard in the stomach. 0:23:12.720 --> 0:23:16.080 Though she couldn't be sure, Urdler suspected he'd done it 0:23:16.119 --> 0:23:21.560 deliberately to harm the baby. Urdler left the next day 0:23:22.200 --> 0:23:27.080 and moved back in with her mother in Raikiavik. In September, 0:23:27.560 --> 0:23:32.600 Urdler gave birth to a girl, whom she named Julia. 0:23:32.680 --> 0:23:36.200 By then, she and Civar were back together and living 0:23:36.200 --> 0:23:39.800 in a property in copper Vaga, just south of the capitol. 0:23:42.000 --> 0:23:45.960 Two months later, Civar and his friend Gujon were arrested 0:23:46.000 --> 0:23:50.080 and put into custody after attempting to smuggle cannabis from France. 0:23:51.480 --> 0:23:54.320 As the police worked to strengthen their case against them, 0:23:54.600 --> 0:23:59.080 they were given some interesting news. A prisoner currently serving 0:23:59.119 --> 0:24:03.520 time with SI's friend Christian, had learned from Christian that 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:06.960 Sivar and Ertler had been responsible for the theft from 0:24:06.960 --> 0:24:11.680 the post and telephone company. One day in December, while 0:24:11.760 --> 0:24:14.520 Ertler was feeding her baby, there was a knock at 0:24:14.520 --> 0:24:18.359 the front door. She opened it to find two police 0:24:18.400 --> 0:24:22.760 officers with a warrant for her arrest. After arranging for 0:24:22.840 --> 0:24:26.040 her sister to take care of Julia, Ertler was led 0:24:26.080 --> 0:24:28.840 out to the waiting police car and driven the short 0:24:28.880 --> 0:24:34.359 distance to Siddamuli Prison. On arrival, she was led straight 0:24:34.359 --> 0:24:37.679 into the prison interrogation room, a small space at the 0:24:37.840 --> 0:24:41.240 entrance of the prison known to the officers as the Corner. 0:24:42.600 --> 0:24:46.440 The room had been strategically chosen to give arriving interviewees 0:24:46.640 --> 0:24:50.560 a glimpse of the prison beyond a reminder of what 0:24:50.680 --> 0:24:53.199 they could look forward to should they fail to comply, 0:24:54.040 --> 0:24:57.639 but Ertler had no intention of giving them what they needed. 0:25:04.400 --> 0:25:07.439 Over the next few days, but by then, twenty year 0:25:07.480 --> 0:25:11.159 old Urtler was brought in and out of solitary confinement 0:25:11.640 --> 0:25:15.000 and placed in the dull, smoke filled interview room without 0:25:15.040 --> 0:25:19.199 a lawyer, as the police, led by the investigating magistrate 0:25:19.520 --> 0:25:24.920 Born Hoskuldsen, tried desperately to extract a confession. Only after 0:25:25.000 --> 0:25:27.119 drawing on a letter they had found in her and 0:25:27.280 --> 0:25:31.320 Sivar's apartment in which Ertler had detailed her many grievances 0:25:31.359 --> 0:25:34.880 with him, did they begin to get somewhere. Look how 0:25:35.000 --> 0:25:38.480 dangerous Civar was, they insisted, how bad he was for 0:25:38.560 --> 0:25:41.600 her and the baby. Clearly he didn't care about them, 0:25:42.119 --> 0:25:44.680 and what would grown up Julia think about her mother 0:25:44.960 --> 0:25:49.439 refusing to cooperate with the police like this. After spending 0:25:49.480 --> 0:25:53.680 almost a week in solitary confinement undergoing twenty five hours 0:25:53.680 --> 0:25:58.960 of interrogation, Ergler couldn't stand it any longer. Desperate to 0:25:58.960 --> 0:26:02.320 see her baby again, she finally confessed to it all, 0:26:03.080 --> 0:26:07.000 giving the officers a full statement of what happened, with 0:26:07.160 --> 0:26:11.480 Magistrate Hoskuldson smiling at her and congratulating her on doing 0:26:11.520 --> 0:26:14.960 the right thing. Ertler sat back in her chair as 0:26:14.960 --> 0:26:19.280 a wave of relief washed over her. It seemed so easy. 0:26:19.400 --> 0:26:21.840 In the end, all she had had to do was 0:26:21.960 --> 0:26:24.720 tell them exactly what they wanted to hear, and it 0:26:24.760 --> 0:26:29.040 was over. Ertler had just stood up to leave, with 0:26:29.080 --> 0:26:33.200 her thoughts only about seeing her baby again, when Hoskuldsen 0:26:33.359 --> 0:26:37.240 called out to her. Just one more thing, he said. 0:26:38.440 --> 0:26:40.480 Then he pulled a photo from a file on the 0:26:40.560 --> 0:26:45.040 table and showed it to Ertler. You don't happen to 0:26:45.040 --> 0:26:50.560 recognize this man by any chance, he said. Ertler, caught 0:26:50.600 --> 0:26:55.280 a little off guard, looked at the photo. She recognized 0:26:55.320 --> 0:26:59.360 him immediately as good munder Ineson, the eighteen year old 0:26:59.400 --> 0:27:05.439 boy who'd gone missing back in January nineteen seventy four. Urgler, 0:27:05.640 --> 0:27:08.840 as she explained, had met him a few times when 0:27:08.920 --> 0:27:12.680 she was just sixteen. They chatted once or twice on 0:27:12.880 --> 0:27:18.560 nights out, but nothing more than that. Raskoldsen looked at 0:27:18.560 --> 0:27:22.119 his colleagues and motioned for Urtler to sit down again. 0:27:23.760 --> 0:27:27.560 Gripped by a sudden panic, Ertler looked toward the exit 0:27:28.160 --> 0:27:32.560 now firmly closed, and slowly sat back down in the chair. 0:27:34.600 --> 0:27:37.800 What were you doing on the evening of January twenty sixth, 0:27:38.040 --> 0:27:43.080 nineteen seventy four, the night good Munda went missing, asked Oskoldsen. 0:27:44.760 --> 0:27:57.640 Were you with Civar by any chance? Ertler's mind went blank. Then, 0:27:58.200 --> 0:28:01.840 thinking for a moment, she slowly began to remember where 0:28:01.840 --> 0:28:05.360 she'd been that night. It was the night of her 0:28:05.400 --> 0:28:09.320 peculiar dream, being woken up by what she thought was 0:28:09.359 --> 0:28:13.800 the sound of three of Sivar's friends whispering conspiratorially in 0:28:13.880 --> 0:28:18.480 the dark outside her apartment. She proceeded to tell the 0:28:18.520 --> 0:28:22.480 officers everything she'd done that night, how she'd come home 0:28:22.520 --> 0:28:27.439 exhausted from Klubrin nightclub and gone straight to bed. She 0:28:27.520 --> 0:28:30.720 even told them about the nightmare, but not about how 0:28:30.760 --> 0:28:34.520 she soiled the sheets. That she'd been too embarrassed to 0:28:34.520 --> 0:28:38.520 say out loud to the numerous older men crowding expectantly 0:28:38.640 --> 0:28:43.120 around the interview table. Instead, she explained that at some 0:28:43.200 --> 0:28:46.520 point she'd gone outside for some fresh air and found 0:28:46.560 --> 0:28:49.480 herself standing next to the bin where she'd seen a 0:28:49.520 --> 0:28:52.840