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Speaker 1: You're listening to unexplained. Season four, episode seventeen, appearing is
Speaker 1: being part two of two. The night was still safe
Speaker 1: for the ghostly clanking of the boats in the harbor
Speaker 1: as they bulbed gent up and down in the ice
Speaker 1: cold water. Up above, thick dark clouds swirled as a
Speaker 1: ceaseless barrage of snow fell steadily onto everything in sight.
Speaker 1: From opposite the harbor, the doors of the half naf
Speaker 1: Chudda town hall swung open, rupturing for a moment the
Speaker 1: silence of the sleepy Icelandic fishing town with a blast
Speaker 1: of ecstatic rock music. Eighteen year old Guthmunda Insen and
Speaker 1: his friend stumbled out of the doorway into the snow
Speaker 1: as the door whipped shut behind them, muffling the music
Speaker 1: from inside. Laughing together, Kuthmunda took a swig from a
Speaker 1: bottle of brandy while his friend lit up a cigarette
Speaker 1: and gazed out across the harbor for a moment before
Speaker 1: the pair of them disappeared into the snow elsewhere and
Speaker 1: half Nafudda. That night, just around the corner from the harbor,
Speaker 1: Urtler was returning to her flat since her boyfriend Cyvar,
Speaker 1: who had the only key, wasn't in. Ergler made her
Speaker 1: way to the basement window, prized it open, and carefully
Speaker 1: squeezed herself into the apartment. Stumbling toward her bed, she
Speaker 1: collapsed on to it, exhausted. Some time later, Ergler was
Speaker 1: awoken by the sound of voices in the apartment. Getting
Speaker 1: up to investigate, she traced them to the storage room,
Speaker 1: where she discovered Civar, his friend Christian, and another man
Speaker 1: carrying something heavy in a fetid sheet. She watched as
Speaker 1: they placed it on the floor, and Civar and Christian
Speaker 1: tied each end into a knot. Though she couldn't see
Speaker 1: what was in it, She had the horrible sense that
Speaker 1: it was a body. It was only then that Christian
Speaker 1: saw Urgler standing in the doorway. Angered by her presence,
Speaker 1: he ordered the others to pick up the bundle, and
Speaker 1: together they bashed past Ergler and disappeared out of the apartment.
Speaker 1: Civar returned moments later and told Ergler, under no uncertain terms,
Speaker 1: never to breathe a word of what she had just
Speaker 1: seen to anyone, and then left again. Confused and scared,
Speaker 1: Ergler went back to bed and eventually fell asleep. The
Speaker 1: next morning, she noticed a bedsheet at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the rubbish been outside that was covered in fieces Ergla
Speaker 1: sat back and waited for a response from the three
Speaker 1: men sat opposite her, investigating Magistrate orn Hoskuldsen, Detective Sigibune Eggertson,
Speaker 1: and Detective Eggart Janissen, but it was already clear from
Speaker 1: the look on their faces that this answer had been
Speaker 1: far more satisfactory. Over the next six hours, as the
Speaker 1: detectives dug into the specifics, suggesting other possibilities to Urdler,
Speaker 1: they finally had a statement they were happy with. After
Speaker 1: thanking the young woman for contributing to justice. Os Gooldsen
Speaker 1: told her she was now free to go, vowing that
Speaker 1: she would no doubt sleep peacefully, knowing the real truth
Speaker 1: was now out. That afternoon, Urdler was released and returned
Speaker 1: home to her baby Julia, But the real nightmare had
Speaker 1: only just begun, and Urdler would not be awakening from
Speaker 1: this one anytime soon. Having been placed back in solitary confinement,
Speaker 1: Urdler had laid down on the thin mattress and gazed
Speaker 1: up at the ceiling as the light slowly ebbed away.
Speaker 1: Alone in the pitch black, Urdler thought hard about that night,
Speaker 1: trying desperately to make solid any of the half formed
Speaker 1: images that were swirling about in the stuttering zeotrope of
Speaker 1: her mind. She had read once before that trauma could
Speaker 1: affect memory. Maybe she really had suppressed what actually took place.
Speaker 1: Maybe the men really had been in her apartment, as
Speaker 1: her scoldson suggested, and maybe it was them who put
Speaker 1: the sheet in the bin and not her. In the end,
Speaker 1: Urdler had decided just to give them what they wanted,
Speaker 1: a plausible version of a truth, anything to see her
Speaker 1: three month old baby again. Later that afternoon, a bleary
Speaker 1: eyed Cyvar was dragged from his cell and taken to
Speaker 1: the corner interview room. Having been re arrested a few
Speaker 1: days before, he'd been questioned numerous times about the post
Speaker 1: office scam, denying everything before the officers shifted their focus
Speaker 1: on to GUTHMUNDA. Ineson's disappearance, but Civar had been utterly bamboozled,
Speaker 1: telling them that he had absolutely nothing to do with it.
Speaker 1: Oskoldsen threw some papers towards Cyvar and told him to
Speaker 1: read them. Civar seemed confused, so Hoskoldsen saved him the
Speaker 1: trouble and detailed to him exactly what Erdler had told
Speaker 1: them only hours before. Cyvar was dumb struck. It just
Speaker 1: wasn't true, he insisted, But as the officers explained just
Speaker 1: how bad this looked for him, his own partner, placing
Speaker 1: him not only at the scene of the crime, but
Speaker 1: as perhaps one of its main instigators. How did he
Speaker 1: think the courts might see it? Did he really expect
Speaker 1: them to side with the drug dealing, feckless young man
Speaker 1: who'd spent time growing up in care or the young
Speaker 1: woman whose only focus in life was to protect and
Speaker 1: look after the child that he barely even acknowledged, not
Speaker 1: that they were in any rush to get to the
Speaker 1: bottom of it. After all, they'd already had a court
Speaker 1: order to keep him in solitary confinement for the next
Speaker 1: forty days, and it wouldn't be difficult to ask for
Speaker 1: a few more. And soon Civar was beginning to question
Speaker 1: his memories of that night too. After another six hour interrogation,
Speaker 1: as plumes of thick cigarette smoke swirled about the room,
Speaker 1: Civar shifted uncomfortably in his seat and began to talk.
Speaker 1: It had been late in the evening when he returned
Speaker 1: to the apartment in harn Afterda, having just got back
Speaker 1: from a trip abroad to buy hash. He remembered his
Speaker 1: friends Christian Vdersen and Trigg v Leeson came over to
Speaker 1: see him, and that the three of them had hung
Speaker 1: out for a short while. At some point, though he
Speaker 1: didn't know who invited him, Gudmunda Ineson had joined them too.
Speaker 1: That had been a discussion about buying alcohol, and it
Speaker 1: was decided that Gudmunda should pay for it, but when
Speaker 1: he refused to, a fight broke out. The next thing
Speaker 1: they knew, good Wunda was dead. Though it had been
Speaker 1: an accident, He Christian and Triggviy decided in fear to
Speaker 1: dispose of the body and try their best to cover
Speaker 1: it up. Since they didn't have a car, Civar called
Speaker 1: his friend Albert Scaffson to pick them up. When he
Speaker 1: arrived soon after, they placed the body in the boot
Speaker 1: of his car and dumped it down a crevasse somewhere
Speaker 1: in the lava fields just south of half an Alford,
Speaker 1: and that was everything he could remember. Later that afternoon,
Speaker 1: having returned to her mother's home, Hurdler broke down in
Speaker 1: tears at the sight of her baby, taking her into
Speaker 1: her arms for the first time in over a week.
Speaker 1: At night, she will lie awake, replaying the days earlier
Speaker 1: events and over in her head as strange and confused
Speaker 1: flashbacks from the night of Guthmunder's disappearance echoed throughout her mind.
Speaker 1: She'd given the detectives what they wanted, making up the
Speaker 1: first version that seemed to make sense, But now when
Speaker 1: she thought hard about it, with so many versions of
Speaker 1: the story in her mind, she was no longer quite
Speaker 1: sure what she had made up and what she hadn't.
Speaker 1: At least, she thought all they had was a story
Speaker 1: without a body or any other evidence, surely they would
Speaker 1: have no choice but to let Civar go. For a start,
Speaker 1: with their apartment block being as small as it was,
Speaker 1: there was no way a fight could have broken out
Speaker 1: that night without the neighbors having heard it. But the
Speaker 1: police never spoke to the neighbors to find out. Instead,
Speaker 1: armed with what they believed to be two solid confessions
Speaker 1: born Hoskuldson's team moved fast. Within days had Christian, Triggvie,
Speaker 1: and Albert all under arrest and placed in solitary confinement.
Speaker 1: Twenty year old Christian, who was brought over from another
Speaker 1: prison where he was already serving time for theft. He'd
Speaker 1: known good munder back from when they were both at
Speaker 1: school together, but as he repeatedly insisted to the frustrated
Speaker 1: police officers, contrary to Ertler and Cyvar's statement, he had
Speaker 1: nothing to do with his disappearance. After hours of interrogation,
Speaker 1: he remained resolute, eventually refusing to answer any more questions
Speaker 1: without a lawyer present in response, while Scoldson presented Earler
Speaker 1: and Cyvar's signed statements to the nation's High Court and
Speaker 1: successfully argued to have Christian remanded in solitary confinement for
Speaker 1: another ninety days. Next up was twenty four year old
Speaker 1: triggvi Like Civar and Christian, Triggvie had been in and
Speaker 1: out to prison for various petty crimes and was well
Speaker 1: versed in the mechanations of the law. Like Christian, he
Speaker 1: too maintained that he hadn't been at Urdin's flat on
Speaker 1: the night in question. He too was remanded in custody
Speaker 1: and placed in solitary confinement for a minimum of ninety days,
Speaker 1: in the hope that he might better remember the events
Speaker 1: of that night. Albert was the last to be picked up.
Speaker 1: He was different from the others, having come from a
Speaker 1: more academic background, his father being a member of the
Speaker 1: Icelandic Symphony Orchestra. A big weed smoker, Albert had been
Speaker 1: smoking for some time when the police arrived at his
Speaker 1: apartment to arrest him. Unused to interrogation procedures and with
Speaker 1: no lawyer present, it wasn't long before the insistent investigators
Speaker 1: began to get under his skin as they pressed harder
Speaker 1: and harder, telling him how they knew he was involved
Speaker 1: and what he'd done that night, making it very clear
Speaker 1: how much trouble he was in and how much worse
Speaker 1: it might get should he not comply. Finally, Albert began
Speaker 1: to talk, confirming Civar's statement that he'd received his call
Speaker 1: late that night. He recounted how he pulled up to
Speaker 1: Saivar and Erdler's apartment in his dad's yellow Toyota and
Speaker 1: sat in the dim sodium glow of a nearby streetlight,
Speaker 1: watching through the rear view mirror as Civar, Christian and
Speaker 1: Trygvey placed something heavy in the boot of his car.
Speaker 1: They then ordered him to drive out to the lava fields,
Speaker 1: where he assumed they dumped the body. Thirty minutes later,
Speaker 1: Albert was driven out to the Raikivik Peninsula and to
Speaker 1: the lava fields just south of Half Naftyuda in the
Speaker 1: hope that he might be able to recollect exactly where
Speaker 1: they'd stopped that night. However, forty five minutes Albert had
Speaker 1: seen nothing that he recognized. He was taken immediately back
Speaker 1: to Siddamuli Prison and remanded in custody for another forty
Speaker 1: five days. At night, alone in their cells, it was
Speaker 1: a constant battle to get to sleep, as each endless
Speaker 1: minute dissolved into the next with the sound of distant
Speaker 1: waves crashing against rocks. On the shoreline their only sense
Speaker 1: of the outside world. All notions of reality were fast
Speaker 1: becoming unstable. Perhaps they really had been there, they thought,
Speaker 1: suddenly confronted with the uncertainty of their own paths. But no,
Speaker 1: they would keep telling themselves they knew they hadn't done it. Angered,
Speaker 1: scared and confused, most of them would go days without
Speaker 1: any rest at all, sometimes being kept up deliberately by
Speaker 1: the guards under instruction to keep them on their toes.
Speaker 1: Some nights, voices could be heard coming from the cells
Speaker 1: as the prisoners talk to themselves, and all were given
Speaker 1: numerous drugs to help calm them down. As nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: six dawned, though they had some fairly incriminating statements, Ornhoskoldsen's
Speaker 1: team were yet to find any concrete evidence linking any
Speaker 1: of their suspects to Gudmunda's murder, and as each suspect
Speaker 1: was confronted and reconfronted with each other's supposed version of events,
Speaker 1: soon the accounts of what actually took place that night
Speaker 1: began to morph and mutate. A new account by Ciba
Speaker 1: had him as an innocent bystander caught up in Christian
Speaker 1: and triggvi's nefarious schemes, with Christian delivering the fatal blow
Speaker 1: to Gudmunda and Albert later arriving in a Volkswagen not
Speaker 1: at Toyota. When told this new account by investigators, Christian
Speaker 1: finally appeared to crack, telling the officers he had been
Speaker 1: there after, but in fact it was him who was
Speaker 1: the innocent bystander, too stoned out of his mind to
Speaker 1: have done anything with Civar and trigg V killing Guthmunda
Speaker 1: in a vicious fight. After twenty two hours of questioning,
Speaker 1: trig V two appeared to crack, only in his version
Speaker 1: it was Christian and Civar who'd beaten Guthmunda to death,
Speaker 1: though he had no recollection of where exactly it had
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Speaker 1: slash Unexplained Podcast. Back at Earthless Mother's house, Earthler was
Speaker 1: puzzled as to why Civar and his friends had not
Speaker 1: yet been released. A few days later, detective Sigibu and
Speaker 1: Eggerson called at the property to let her know that
Speaker 1: she had nothing more to worry about. The others had
Speaker 1: confessed to the murder. Urgler sat dumfounded for a moment,
Speaker 1: trying to take it in. So it hadn't been a
Speaker 1: dream after all. She thought they really had been there,
Speaker 1: but Urgler was at a loss to explain it. Over
Speaker 1: the next few weeks, Detective Eggutson would make a number
Speaker 1: of visits to Ergler's mother's house to check up on Urdler, who,
Speaker 1: with Civar in custody and few friends to call on,
Speaker 1: was thankful for his support. At one point, Ergler asked
Speaker 1: if Eggutsson would escort her to get some clothes from
Speaker 1: her apartment in Hanaf Judah, the place having been sealed
Speaker 1: off as a crime scene ever since her arrest. Eggertsson
Speaker 1: was happy to oblige and offered to take her there
Speaker 1: himself while she gathered what she needed. Eggertson surprised her
Speaker 1: with an unexpected question. Had she ever heard of geffener Inesen,
Speaker 1: he asked, the man who disappeared mysteriously back in November
Speaker 1: of the previous year, Yes, she said, Like many people,
Speaker 1: she'd watched the reports about it on the news. Then
Speaker 1: Eggittson asked her, was there any chance that Cyvar had
Speaker 1: something to do with his disappearance? Taken aback, Burgler thought
Speaker 1: for a moment, trying to remember that night that she
Speaker 1: and Cyber had heard about it on the news, and
Speaker 1: how blase he'd seemed about it. The question seemed innocent enough,
Speaker 1: and Eggertson had been so kind to her that she
Speaker 1: thought it at least worth, mentioning what Cyva had said
Speaker 1: that night, that Geffener had obviously said something out of
Speaker 1: line and be murdered for it. Later, when Detective Eggertson
Speaker 1: dropped her back at her mother's, Urdler insisted that Cyva
Speaker 1: hadn't meant anything by the comment and asked if they
Speaker 1: could keep it between the two of them as friends.
Speaker 1: The next day, there was a knock at the door.
Speaker 1: Urdler opened it to find Detective Eggittson standing there next
Speaker 1: to another man she recognized all too well, Investigative Magistrate
Speaker 1: Orn Hoskoldsen. Referring to what Urtler had told Eggotson only
Speaker 1: the day before, Hoskoldsen explained that he had reason to
Speaker 1: believe that she had experienced another trauma regarding Geffner Einesen,
Speaker 1: and once again he wanted to help her to remember.
Speaker 1: For whatever reason, Orn Hooskoldsen's team had come to regard
Speaker 1: Civar as the focal point of their investigation. Head of
Speaker 1: Customs Christian Petersen, who'd long had his own suspicions about him,
Speaker 1: had also been pushing his theories about Civar. It was
Speaker 1: his belief that Geffner Einesen's disappearance had in some way
Speaker 1: been connected to an alcohol smuggling ring that he had
Speaker 1: reason to believe Civar might have been involved with. Two
Speaker 1: Petersen had also been running checks on any individuals who
Speaker 1: left the country around the time of Geffner's disappearance. It
Speaker 1: just so happened that only days after Geffenner was last
Speaker 1: seen at the Harbor Cafe in Kevlovich, Cyvar and Erler
Speaker 1: fled to Denmark. In late January nineteen seventy six, a
Speaker 1: wholly disorientated Cyvar was pulled out a solitary confinement and
Speaker 1: asked if he knew Geffenner Einesen like everyone else. He
Speaker 1: explained he'd heard about him on the news, but nothing more.
Speaker 1: Then Hoskoldsen slipped a piece of paper in front of him.
Speaker 1: It seemed innocuous at first, a story from Erdler recounting
Speaker 1: how her half brother Einar had orchestrated a pyramid scheme
Speaker 1: that resulted in him and his friends receiving numerous free
Speaker 1: bottles of whisky to the police. However, it was a
Speaker 1: vital thread. Einar a friend of Voldemir Olsen's brother of
Speaker 1: Erla's friend Holder, who was in turn a friend of
Speaker 1: Magnus Leah Poldsen, the manager of Klubrin nightclub in Reikyovik,
Speaker 1: the man who some police suspected of making the corps
Speaker 1: that had summoned Geffner Esen to the Harbor Cafe and
Speaker 1: Kevlovich before he disappeared. Ainah had always been suspicious and
Speaker 1: dismissive of Civar. At one point early in his and
Speaker 1: Erdler's relationship, Einah had even convinced his father to sell
Speaker 1: his apartment in half Nafjorda, where Erdler lived, in an
Speaker 1: attempt to disrupt the relationship. So when Herskoldson presented Civar
Speaker 1: with this new story, he saw an opportunity to get
Speaker 1: his revenge. He had been with geffenner Essen that night
Speaker 1: he disappeared, after all, he told the police, and Aina
Speaker 1: had been there too that afternoon. He went on to
Speaker 1: recount how on the night of Geffner's disappearance, Aina Bolason,
Speaker 1: Magnus Leopoldsen and Voldemir Olsen had picked him up from
Speaker 1: his mother's house and taken him to Kevlevik, where soon
Speaker 1: after they met up with Geffner. While Magnus and Voldemar
Speaker 1: accompanied Geffner out onto the water to retrieve a shipment
Speaker 1: of alcohol. Einer and Civar were told to wait for them.
Speaker 1: After driving round Kevlevik for an hour, they returned to
Speaker 1: the harbor to find only Magnus and Voldemar waiting for them.
Speaker 1: Looking distressed, Geffner had somehow fallen overboard and drowned. Oskoldsen
Speaker 1: ordered the officers to bring Urtler back in for questioning immediately.
Speaker 1: At first, she insisted she had no knowledge of where
Speaker 1: Civar had apparently been that night, But slowly she began
Speaker 1: to open up to the officers, and soon the story
Speaker 1: was morphing again. Yes, Civa had been there, she said,
Speaker 1: but so had she. In fact, it was her who'd
Speaker 1: accompanied Cyvar and Magnus Leopoldsen to Kevlevich, not Einar and Voldemar,
Speaker 1: and christ Jan had been there too, waiting at the
Speaker 1: harbor when they arrived, alongside Aina and Geffena. The last
Speaker 1: thing she remembered was seeing a fight break out and
Speaker 1: running away, scared to hide in a derelict building nearby.
Speaker 1: Next christ Jan was pulled out a solitary and told
Speaker 1: to explain his whereabouts that night. So Weary and scrambled
Speaker 1: by sleeping pills and anxiety suppressants, he was barely able
Speaker 1: to string a sentence together. However, despite first denying any involvement,
Speaker 1: by the end of the interview, Christian had placed himself
Speaker 1: at the scene with a vague account of large boats
Speaker 1: silhouetted in a dimly lit dock and the cases of
Speaker 1: people that may or may not have been there. Irritated
Speaker 1: by his incomprehensible statement, the police sent him back to
Speaker 1: his cell to think a little harder about that night
Speaker 1: and turned their attentions to Einar Magnus and Voldemar. Thankfully,
Speaker 1: for Triggviy, he had a cast iron alibi for the
Speaker 1: knight of Geffenner's disappearance, and so for the next few
Speaker 1: months was more or less forgotten about, left to stew
Speaker 1: alone in his cell while hos Gooldsen's team concentrated on
Speaker 1: the Geffener case. Sadly, for them, despite the apparent witness
Speaker 1: statements from Earler, Saivar and Christian, neither Eina Magnus of
Speaker 1: Voldemar were so easily swayed. Each denied emphatically that they'd
Speaker 1: been anywhere near Kevlevik harbor on the night in question.
Speaker 1: Much less were involved in Geffener's disappearance. All had strong
Speaker 1: alibis too, Regardless, Thus Goldson's team once again convinced the
Speaker 1: courts to keep them in custody and were all duly
Speaker 1: placed in solitary confinement. Since the turn of the new year,
Speaker 1: news of the investigation had been steadily drip fed to
Speaker 1: the media, and by March the nation was gripped. For
Speaker 1: a country not used to reading about violent crimes on
Speaker 1: its own doorstep, the fact that good Munder's and Geffener's
Speaker 1: disappearances might not only be the result of murder but
Speaker 1: could also be linked was especially thrilling. That a small
Speaker 1: group of what were effectively kids might be involved was
Speaker 1: all the more titillating. Focus inevitably turned to Urdler and
Speaker 1: Civar's relationship, with many reporters keen to portray Saivar as
Speaker 1: Iceland's own version of Charles Manson, with Erdler his ever
Speaker 1: faithful disciple. In March, born Hos Goodsen held a press
Speaker 1: conference detailing his team's latest findings. Civar, Christian Tryg v
Speaker 1: Albert Einar Magnus Voldemar, and Erdler were all implicated in
Speaker 1: the supposed murder of either Guthmunda or Gefferson, and in
Speaker 1: some cases both. Over the next few months, the police,
Speaker 1: having begun to suspect that Geffener's body had also been
Speaker 1: dumped somewhere in the lava fields, scoured every inch of
Speaker 1: the area for any sign of that or Guthmunder's body,
Speaker 1: but found nothing, nor did they find anything in Erdler
Speaker 1: and Civar's flat to incriminate any of the suspects. Becoming
Speaker 1: increasingly desperate, they continued to bring each of the suspects
Speaker 1: out to the apparent scene of the crime in the
Speaker 1: hope of jogging their memory as to where the bodies were.
Speaker 1: Christian was even made to re enact a possible version
Speaker 1: of Geffener's murder, but none of it brought any real
Speaker 1: evidence to light. In May, Ertler was brought back in
Speaker 1: for questioning, and by the following day her story had
Speaker 1: changed again. Not only had she seen Geffera killed, but
Speaker 1: it was her that had killed him, shooting him with
Speaker 1: the rifle that Civer had handed to her on the night.
Speaker 1: A few days later, with the combination of good legal
Speaker 1: representation and their solid alibis, the police were forced to
Speaker 1: let Einar, Voldemar and Magnus go. Each had been kept
Speaker 1: for a hundred and five days in solitary confinement, with
Speaker 1: not one shred of evidence connecting them to either Guthmunda
Speaker 1: or Gefferson's disappearance. Not one of them would fully recover
Speaker 1: from the ordeal, with many thanks to the reports and
Speaker 1: the press continuing to suspect that perhaps they had been
Speaker 1: involved after all. Now without a driver for the narrative
Speaker 1: of how Civar, Ler and Christian had met Geffener at
Speaker 1: Keflevik Harbor, the police swiftly arrested Civar's old drug smuggling companion,
Speaker 1: Gujean Skephardinson, kept under similar circumstances to the other suspects,
Speaker 1: Gudjohn would too, eventually confess to assisting in the murder
Speaker 1: of Geffner Einesen. Throughout the summer of nineteen seventy seven,
Speaker 1: all suspects were brought before the High Court to give
Speaker 1: their testimonies regarding Guthmunder and Gefferson's apparent murders in December,
Speaker 1: despite not having a single piece of evidence to support it,
Speaker 1: save for the various and conflicting confessions, all of which
Speaker 1: each defendant would retract at one point or another. The
Speaker 1: High Court of Iceland found Civar Christian trygv Gujon, Albert
Speaker 1: and Erdler all guilty for being involved in the murder
Speaker 1: of Guthmunder een and Geffenner Einesen, having both spent over
Speaker 1: six hundred and fifty days in solitary confinement. Chris Jane
Speaker 1: and Triggvie were sentenced to sixteen and thirteen years, respectively. Gudjohn,
Speaker 1: having eventually been kept for four hundred and twelve days
Speaker 1: in solitary confinement, was sentenced to twelve years. Albert Scafteson
Speaker 1: was given only twelve months, since it was decided that
Speaker 1: he'd only helped to barry Guthmunder's body. For her part, Earthler,
Speaker 1: having spent two hundred and forty one days in solitary
Speaker 1: confinement being questioned over a hundred times, was sentenced to
Speaker 1: three years for perverting the course of justice. Siva Sizelski,
Speaker 1: the perceived ringleader of the group, would spend almost seven
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty days in solitary confinement and was sentenced
Speaker 1: to seventeen years in prison. Having been young when they
Speaker 1: were convicted or suspect served out their sentences and did
Speaker 1: their best to rejoin society afterwards, and or claimed that
Speaker 1: they had been completely innocent of the crimes. On his release,
Speaker 1: Civar began a very public campaign to have their convictions quashed,
Speaker 1: claiming that they'd all been coerced, in many cases violently
Speaker 1: into confessing. In nineteen ninety seven, the High Court decided
Speaker 1: against reopening the case, claiming there was no new evidence
Speaker 1: to do so. However, many including then Prime Minister David Odson,
Speaker 1: believed grave mistakes had been made and there was good
Speaker 1: reason to believe the convictions had been unsound. In two
Speaker 1: thousand and nine, Trygvey died of cancer. He is said
Speaker 1: to have protested his innocence even on his deathbed. The
Speaker 1: case was once more in the public eye. By then, Civar,
Speaker 1: who despite everything that had happened to him, had retained
Speaker 1: much of the charm and charisma of his younger self,
Speaker 1: had become something of a minor celebrity. However, the years
Speaker 1: of battling for justice had taken their toll. Civar would
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