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Season four, episode seventeen, appearing is 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:56.120 being part two of two. The night was still safe 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:58.520 for the ghostly clanking of the boats in the harbor 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.520 as they bulbed gent up and down in the ice 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:07.240 cold water. Up above, thick dark clouds swirled as a 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:11.400 ceaseless barrage of snow fell steadily onto everything in sight. 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:15.400 From opposite the harbor, the doors of the half naf 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:20.240 Chudda town hall swung open, rupturing for a moment the 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:24.360 silence of the sleepy Icelandic fishing town with a blast 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:29.520 of ecstatic rock music. Eighteen year old Guthmunda Insen and 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:32.760 his friend stumbled out of the doorway into the snow 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.639 as the door whipped shut behind them, muffling the music 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:42.440 from inside. Laughing together, Kuthmunda took a swig from a 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.640 bottle of brandy while his friend lit up a cigarette 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:49.120 and gazed out across the harbor for a moment before 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:54.880 the pair of them disappeared into the snow elsewhere and 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:58.920 half Nafudda. That night, just around the corner from the harbor, 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:03.960 Urtler was returning to her flat since her boyfriend Cyvar, 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:07.880 who had the only key, wasn't in. Ergler made her 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:11.840 way to the basement window, prized it open, and carefully 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:16.760 squeezed herself into the apartment. Stumbling toward her bed, she 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:23.079 collapsed on to it, exhausted. Some time later, Ergler was 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:27.000 awoken by the sound of voices in the apartment. Getting 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:30.079 up to investigate, she traced them to the storage room, 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:34.440 where she discovered Civar, his friend Christian, and another man 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:39.160 carrying something heavy in a fetid sheet. She watched as 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:42.240 they placed it on the floor, and Civar and Christian 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:46.160 tied each end into a knot. Though she couldn't see 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.120 what was in it, She had the horrible sense that 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:53.200 it was a body. It was only then that Christian 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:57.200 saw Urgler standing in the doorway. Angered by her presence, 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:00.200 he ordered the others to pick up the bundle, and 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:04.440 together they bashed past Ergler and disappeared out of the apartment. 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:10.880 Civar returned moments later and told Ergler, under no uncertain terms, 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:13.200 never to breathe a word of what she had just 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:19.200 seen to anyone, and then left again. Confused and scared, 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:24.920 Ergler went back to bed and eventually fell asleep. The 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.239 next morning, she noticed a bedsheet at the bottom of 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:34.280 the rubbish been outside that was covered in fieces Ergla 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.520 sat back and waited for a response from the three 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:44.560 men sat opposite her, investigating Magistrate orn Hoskuldsen, Detective Sigibune Eggertson, 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:49.040 and Detective Eggart Janissen, but it was already clear from 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:52.080 the look on their faces that this answer had been 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:56.800 far more satisfactory. Over the next six hours, as the 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:01.200 detectives dug into the specifics, suggesting other possibilities to Urdler, 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:05.520 they finally had a statement they were happy with. After 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:09.400 thanking the young woman for contributing to justice. Os Gooldsen 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:12.600 told her she was now free to go, vowing that 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.800 she would no doubt sleep peacefully, knowing the real truth 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:21.920 was now out. That afternoon, Urdler was released and returned 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.560 home to her baby Julia, But the real nightmare had 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:29.360 only just begun, and Urdler would not be awakening from 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:41.200 this one anytime soon. Having been placed back in solitary confinement, 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:45.520 Urdler had laid down on the thin mattress and gazed 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:49.279 up at the ceiling as the light slowly ebbed away. 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:53.960 Alone in the pitch black, Urdler thought hard about that night, 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:57.880 trying desperately to make solid any of the half formed 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:01.720 images that were swirling about in the stuttering zeotrope of 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:06.039 her mind. She had read once before that trauma could 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:10.839 affect memory. Maybe she really had suppressed what actually took place. 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.719 Maybe the men really had been in her apartment, as 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:18.400 her scoldson suggested, and maybe it was them who put 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:22.839 the sheet in the bin and not her. In the end, 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.239 Urdler had decided just to give them what they wanted, 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:30.200 a plausible version of a truth, anything to see her 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:35.800 three month old baby again. Later that afternoon, a bleary 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:39.240 eyed Cyvar was dragged from his cell and taken to 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:43.440 the corner interview room. Having been re arrested a few 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:47.159 days before, he'd been questioned numerous times about the post 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:52.000 office scam, denying everything before the officers shifted their focus 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:57.640 on to GUTHMUNDA. Ineson's disappearance, but Civar had been utterly bamboozled, 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:01.120 telling them that he had absolutely nothing to do with it. 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:06.039 Oskoldsen threw some papers towards Cyvar and told him to 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:11.120 read them. Civar seemed confused, so Hoskoldsen saved him the 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.680 trouble and detailed to him exactly what Erdler had told 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:20.520 them only hours before. Cyvar was dumb struck. It just 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:25.040 wasn't true, he insisted, But as the officers explained just 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:28.440 how bad this looked for him, his own partner, placing 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:31.080 him not only at the scene of the crime, but 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.479 as perhaps one of its main instigators. How did he 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:38.000 think the courts might see it? Did he really expect 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:40.800 them to side with the drug dealing, feckless young man 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:44.560 who'd spent time growing up in care or the young 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:48.039 woman whose only focus in life was to protect and 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:52.560 look after the child that he barely even acknowledged, not 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:54.599 that they were in any rush to get to the 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:58.320 bottom of it. After all, they'd already had a court 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:01.320 order to keep him in solitary confinement for the next 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.960 forty days, and it wouldn't be difficult to ask for 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:10.440 a few more. And soon Civar was beginning to question 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:15.840 his memories of that night too. After another six hour interrogation, 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:20.600 as plumes of thick cigarette smoke swirled about the room, 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:24.720 Civar shifted uncomfortably in his seat and began to talk. 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:28.840 It had been late in the evening when he returned 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:32.120 to the apartment in harn Afterda, having just got back 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:36.000 from a trip abroad to buy hash. He remembered his 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:39.680 friends Christian Vdersen and Trigg v Leeson came over to 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:42.080 see him, and that the three of them had hung 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:46.040 out for a short while. At some point, though he 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:51.360 didn't know who invited him, Gudmunda Ineson had joined them too. 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:54.560 That had been a discussion about buying alcohol, and it 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.760 was decided that Gudmunda should pay for it, but when 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:01.960 he refused to, a fight broke out. The next thing 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:07.440 they knew, good Wunda was dead. Though it had been 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:11.560 an accident, He Christian and Triggviy decided in fear to 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:14.320 dispose of the body and try their best to cover 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:18.960 it up. Since they didn't have a car, Civar called 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:22.680 his friend Albert Scaffson to pick them up. When he 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.880 arrived soon after, they placed the body in the boot 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:29.440 of his car and dumped it down a crevasse somewhere 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.360 in the lava fields just south of half an Alford, 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:43.840 and that was everything he could remember. Later that afternoon, 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.720 having returned to her mother's home, Hurdler broke down in 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.760 tears at the sight of her baby, taking her into 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.240 her arms for the first time in over a week. 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:58.800 At night, she will lie awake, replaying the days earlier 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:03.319 events and over in her head as strange and confused 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:08.160 flashbacks from the night of Guthmunder's disappearance echoed throughout her mind. 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:12.720 She'd given the detectives what they wanted, making up the 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:16.080 first version that seemed to make sense, But now when 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:18.920 she thought hard about it, with so many versions of 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.680 the story in her mind, she was no longer quite 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.480 sure what she had made up and what she hadn't. 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.520 At least, she thought all they had was a story 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.960 without a body or any other evidence, surely they would 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:36.880 have no choice but to let Civar go. For a start, 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.720 with their apartment block being as small as it was, 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.200 there was no way a fight could have broken out 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:46.080 that night without the neighbors having heard it. But the 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:50.559 police never spoke to the neighbors to find out. Instead, 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:54.280 armed with what they believed to be two solid confessions 0:09:54.880 --> 0:10:01.480 born Hoskuldson's team moved fast. Within days had Christian, Triggvie, 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:05.960 and Albert all under arrest and placed in solitary confinement. 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.880 Twenty year old Christian, who was brought over from another 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:15.079 prison where he was already serving time for theft. He'd 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.440 known good munder back from when they were both at 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:21.640 school together, but as he repeatedly insisted to the frustrated 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:26.319 police officers, contrary to Ertler and Cyvar's statement, he had 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:31.480 nothing to do with his disappearance. After hours of interrogation, 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:36.240 he remained resolute, eventually refusing to answer any more questions 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:41.720 without a lawyer present in response, while Scoldson presented Earler 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:45.360 and Cyvar's signed statements to the nation's High Court and 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:50.000 successfully argued to have Christian remanded in solitary confinement for 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:55.000 another ninety days. Next up was twenty four year old 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:59.720 triggvi Like Civar and Christian, Triggvie had been in and 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.959 out to prison for various petty crimes and was well 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:07.160 versed in the mechanations of the law. Like Christian, he 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:10.040 too maintained that he hadn't been at Urdin's flat on 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:13.920 the night in question. He too was remanded in custody 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:17.679 and placed in solitary confinement for a minimum of ninety days, 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.920 in the hope that he might better remember the events 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:30.839 of that night. Albert was the last to be picked up. 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.320 He was different from the others, having come from a 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:38.080 more academic background, his father being a member of the 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:43.679 Icelandic Symphony Orchestra. A big weed smoker, Albert had been 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.600 smoking for some time when the police arrived at his 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:52.040 apartment to arrest him. Unused to interrogation procedures and with 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:56.160 no lawyer present, it wasn't long before the insistent investigators 0:11:56.440 --> 0:12:00.160 began to get under his skin as they pressed harder 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:03.080 and harder, telling him how they knew he was involved 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.600 and what he'd done that night, making it very clear 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.160 how much trouble he was in and how much worse 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:14.319 it might get should he not comply. Finally, Albert began 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:19.600 to talk, confirming Civar's statement that he'd received his call 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:22.600 late that night. He recounted how he pulled up to 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:27.000 Saivar and Erdler's apartment in his dad's yellow Toyota and 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.520 sat in the dim sodium glow of a nearby streetlight, 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:34.880 watching through the rear view mirror as Civar, Christian and 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:38.240 Trygvey placed something heavy in the boot of his car. 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.480 They then ordered him to drive out to the lava fields, 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:47.160 where he assumed they dumped the body. Thirty minutes later, 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.600 Albert was driven out to the Raikivik Peninsula and to 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.840 the lava fields just south of Half Naftyuda in the 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.520 hope that he might be able to recollect exactly where 0:12:56.520 --> 0:13:02.199 they'd stopped that night. However, forty five minutes Albert had 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:06.520 seen nothing that he recognized. He was taken immediately back 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:10.560 to Siddamuli Prison and remanded in custody for another forty 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:15.480 five days. At night, alone in their cells, it was 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:19.000 a constant battle to get to sleep, as each endless 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:22.199 minute dissolved into the next with the sound of distant 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:26.160 waves crashing against rocks. On the shoreline their only sense 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:30.280 of the outside world. All notions of reality were fast 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:34.520 becoming unstable. Perhaps they really had been there, they thought, 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:39.200 suddenly confronted with the uncertainty of their own paths. But no, 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:45.560 they would keep telling themselves they knew they hadn't done it. Angered, 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.920 scared and confused, most of them would go days without 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:52.880 any rest at all, sometimes being kept up deliberately by 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:56.120 the guards under instruction to keep them on their toes. 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:01.000 Some nights, voices could be heard coming from the cells 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:05.360 as the prisoners talk to themselves, and all were given 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:10.280 numerous drugs to help calm them down. As nineteen seventy 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:15.640 six dawned, though they had some fairly incriminating statements, Ornhoskoldsen's 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:19.320 team were yet to find any concrete evidence linking any 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:23.200 of their suspects to Gudmunda's murder, and as each suspect 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:28.280 was confronted and reconfronted with each other's supposed version of events, 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.120 soon the accounts of what actually took place that night 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:36.280 began to morph and mutate. A new account by Ciba 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:40.360 had him as an innocent bystander caught up in Christian 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:44.920 and triggvi's nefarious schemes, with Christian delivering the fatal blow 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:49.120 to Gudmunda and Albert later arriving in a Volkswagen not 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:55.000 at Toyota. When told this new account by investigators, Christian 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:59.320 finally appeared to crack, telling the officers he had been 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:02.600 there after, but in fact it was him who was 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.760 the innocent bystander, too stoned out of his mind to 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:10.080 have done anything with Civar and trigg V killing Guthmunda 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:15.720 in a vicious fight. After twenty two hours of questioning, 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.720 trig V two appeared to crack, only in his version 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:23.640 it was Christian and Civar who'd beaten Guthmunda to death, 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:27.640 though he had no recollection of where exactly it had 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:34.640 taken place. 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So it hadn't been a 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:11.520 dream after all. She thought they really had been there, 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:16.880 but Urgler was at a loss to explain it. Over 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:20.240 the next few weeks, Detective Eggutson would make a number 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:24.240 of visits to Ergler's mother's house to check up on Urdler, who, 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:27.399 with Civar in custody and few friends to call on, 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:32.560 was thankful for his support. At one point, Ergler asked 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:35.400 if Eggutsson would escort her to get some clothes from 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:38.919 her apartment in Hanaf Judah, the place having been sealed 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:42.959 off as a crime scene ever since her arrest. Eggertsson 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.840 was happy to oblige and offered to take her there 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:51.200 himself while she gathered what she needed. Eggertson surprised her 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:55.879 with an unexpected question. Had she ever heard of geffener Inesen, 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:59.960 he asked, the man who disappeared mysteriously back in November 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:04.800 of the previous year, Yes, she said, Like many people, 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:08.639 she'd watched the reports about it on the news. Then 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:12.480 Eggittson asked her, was there any chance that Cyvar had 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:18.240 something to do with his disappearance? Taken aback, Burgler thought 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:21.159 for a moment, trying to remember that night that she 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.320 and Cyber had heard about it on the news, and 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:29.280 how blase he'd seemed about it. The question seemed innocent enough, 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:32.199 and Eggertson had been so kind to her that she 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:35.480 thought it at least worth, mentioning what Cyva had said 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:39.000 that night, that Geffener had obviously said something out of 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:44.159 line and be murdered for it. Later, when Detective Eggertson 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:47.959 dropped her back at her mother's, Urdler insisted that Cyva 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:51.040 hadn't meant anything by the comment and asked if they 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.240 could keep it between the two of them as friends. 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:57.280 The next day, there was a knock at the door. 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:02.600 Urdler opened it to find Detective Eggittson standing there next 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:07.160 to another man she recognized all too well, Investigative Magistrate 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:12.200 Orn Hoskoldsen. Referring to what Urtler had told Eggotson only 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:15.800 the day before, Hoskoldsen explained that he had reason to 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:20.360 believe that she had experienced another trauma regarding Geffner Einesen, 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:24.840 and once again he wanted to help her to remember. 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:36.520 For whatever reason, Orn Hooskoldsen's team had come to regard 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:40.679 Civar as the focal point of their investigation. Head of 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:45.320 Customs Christian Petersen, who'd long had his own suspicions about him, 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:49.480 had also been pushing his theories about Civar. It was 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:53.240 his belief that Geffner Einesen's disappearance had in some way 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.560 been connected to an alcohol smuggling ring that he had 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.840 reason to believe Civar might have been involved with. Two 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:05.000 Petersen had also been running checks on any individuals who 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:09.480 left the country around the time of Geffner's disappearance. It 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:12.920 just so happened that only days after Geffenner was last 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:17.399 seen at the Harbor Cafe in Kevlovich, Cyvar and Erler 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:23.720 fled to Denmark. In late January nineteen seventy six, a 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:28.439 wholly disorientated Cyvar was pulled out a solitary confinement and 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:32.520 asked if he knew Geffenner Einesen like everyone else. He 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:36.200 explained he'd heard about him on the news, but nothing more. 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:41.439 Then Hoskoldsen slipped a piece of paper in front of him. 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:46.159 It seemed innocuous at first, a story from Erdler recounting 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:49.800 how her half brother Einar had orchestrated a pyramid scheme 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:53.520 that resulted in him and his friends receiving numerous free 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:57.199 bottles of whisky to the police. However, it was a 0:20:57.320 --> 0:21:02.760 vital thread. Einar a friend of Voldemir Olsen's brother of 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:06.600 Erla's friend Holder, who was in turn a friend of 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:11.480 Magnus Leah Poldsen, the manager of Klubrin nightclub in Reikyovik, 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:15.159 the man who some police suspected of making the corps 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:17.960 that had summoned Geffner Esen to the Harbor Cafe and 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:24.240 Kevlovich before he disappeared. Ainah had always been suspicious and 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:27.960 dismissive of Civar. At one point early in his and 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:32.000 Erdler's relationship, Einah had even convinced his father to sell 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:36.360 his apartment in half Nafjorda, where Erdler lived, in an 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:41.800 attempt to disrupt the relationship. So when Herskoldson presented Civar 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:45.399 with this new story, he saw an opportunity to get 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:49.560 his revenge. He had been with geffenner Essen that night 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:54.280 he disappeared, after all, he told the police, and Aina 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:59.040 had been there too that afternoon. He went on to 0:21:59.080 --> 0:22:03.200 recount how on the night of Geffner's disappearance, Aina Bolason, 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:07.800 Magnus Leopoldsen and Voldemir Olsen had picked him up from 0:22:07.840 --> 0:22:11.200 his mother's house and taken him to Kevlevik, where soon 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:15.920 after they met up with Geffner. While Magnus and Voldemar 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:19.480 accompanied Geffner out onto the water to retrieve a shipment 0:22:19.520 --> 0:22:24.080 of alcohol. Einer and Civar were told to wait for them. 0:22:24.200 --> 0:22:27.679 After driving round Kevlevik for an hour, they returned to 0:22:27.680 --> 0:22:31.560 the harbor to find only Magnus and Voldemar waiting for them. 0:22:31.600 --> 0:22:45.040 Looking distressed, Geffner had somehow fallen overboard and drowned. Oskoldsen 0:22:45.240 --> 0:22:48.879 ordered the officers to bring Urtler back in for questioning immediately. 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:52.760 At first, she insisted she had no knowledge of where 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:57.359 Civar had apparently been that night, But slowly she began 0:22:57.400 --> 0:23:00.359 to open up to the officers, and soon the story 0:23:00.800 --> 0:23:05.440 was morphing again. Yes, Civa had been there, she said, 0:23:05.960 --> 0:23:09.760 but so had she. In fact, it was her who'd 0:23:09.760 --> 0:23:15.400 accompanied Cyvar and Magnus Leopoldsen to Kevlevich, not Einar and Voldemar, 0:23:16.600 --> 0:23:19.399 and christ Jan had been there too, waiting at the 0:23:19.480 --> 0:23:24.440 harbor when they arrived, alongside Aina and Geffena. The last 0:23:24.520 --> 0:23:27.560 thing she remembered was seeing a fight break out and 0:23:27.680 --> 0:23:31.120 running away, scared to hide in a derelict building nearby. 0:23:33.040 --> 0:23:36.399 Next christ Jan was pulled out a solitary and told 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:41.000 to explain his whereabouts that night. So Weary and scrambled 0:23:41.000 --> 0:23:44.679 by sleeping pills and anxiety suppressants, he was barely able 0:23:44.760 --> 0:23:50.240 to string a sentence together. However, despite first denying any involvement, 0:23:50.680 --> 0:23:53.719 by the end of the interview, Christian had placed himself 0:23:53.760 --> 0:23:57.119 at the scene with a vague account of large boats 0:23:57.160 --> 0:24:00.439 silhouetted in a dimly lit dock and the cases of 0:24:00.480 --> 0:24:05.520 people that may or may not have been there. Irritated 0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:09.159 by his incomprehensible statement, the police sent him back to 0:24:09.240 --> 0:24:12.080 his cell to think a little harder about that night 0:24:12.520 --> 0:24:19.080 and turned their attentions to Einar Magnus and Voldemar. Thankfully, 0:24:19.080 --> 0:24:21.840 for Triggviy, he had a cast iron alibi for the 0:24:21.920 --> 0:24:25.160 knight of Geffenner's disappearance, and so for the next few 0:24:25.160 --> 0:24:28.640 months was more or less forgotten about, left to stew 0:24:28.720 --> 0:24:33.000 alone in his cell while hos Gooldsen's team concentrated on 0:24:33.040 --> 0:24:38.840 the Geffener case. Sadly, for them, despite the apparent witness 0:24:38.920 --> 0:24:43.680 statements from Earler, Saivar and Christian, neither Eina Magnus of 0:24:43.760 --> 0:24:48.640 Voldemar were so easily swayed. Each denied emphatically that they'd 0:24:48.680 --> 0:24:52.160 been anywhere near Kevlevik harbor on the night in question. 0:24:52.960 --> 0:24:57.760 Much less were involved in Geffener's disappearance. All had strong 0:24:57.800 --> 0:25:03.639 alibis too, Regardless, Thus Goldson's team once again convinced the 0:25:03.680 --> 0:25:07.000 courts to keep them in custody and were all duly 0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:12.000 placed in solitary confinement. Since the turn of the new year, 0:25:12.560 --> 0:25:15.560 news of the investigation had been steadily drip fed to 0:25:15.600 --> 0:25:19.879 the media, and by March the nation was gripped. For 0:25:19.960 --> 0:25:22.800 a country not used to reading about violent crimes on 0:25:22.840 --> 0:25:26.200 its own doorstep, the fact that good Munder's and Geffener's 0:25:26.240 --> 0:25:29.879 disappearances might not only be the result of murder but 0:25:30.040 --> 0:25:34.879 could also be linked was especially thrilling. That a small 0:25:34.920 --> 0:25:38.600 group of what were effectively kids might be involved was 0:25:38.640 --> 0:25:43.359 all the more titillating. Focus inevitably turned to Urdler and 0:25:43.480 --> 0:25:48.440 Civar's relationship, with many reporters keen to portray Saivar as 0:25:48.440 --> 0:25:52.520 Iceland's own version of Charles Manson, with Erdler his ever 0:25:52.600 --> 0:25:58.680 faithful disciple. In March, born Hos Goodsen held a press 0:25:58.720 --> 0:26:04.320 conference detailing his team's latest findings. Civar, Christian Tryg v 0:26:04.720 --> 0:26:10.760 Albert Einar Magnus Voldemar, and Erdler were all implicated in 0:26:10.840 --> 0:26:14.560 the supposed murder of either Guthmunda or Gefferson, and in 0:26:14.600 --> 0:26:25.160 some cases both. Over the next few months, the police, 0:26:25.600 --> 0:26:29.040 having begun to suspect that Geffener's body had also been 0:26:29.119 --> 0:26:32.560 dumped somewhere in the lava fields, scoured every inch of 0:26:32.560 --> 0:26:36.080 the area for any sign of that or Guthmunder's body, 0:26:36.240 --> 0:26:40.359 but found nothing, nor did they find anything in Erdler 0:26:40.400 --> 0:26:45.200 and Civar's flat to incriminate any of the suspects. Becoming 0:26:45.240 --> 0:26:48.959 increasingly desperate, they continued to bring each of the suspects 0:26:48.960 --> 0:26:51.480 out to the apparent scene of the crime in the 0:26:51.520 --> 0:26:54.320 hope of jogging their memory as to where the bodies were. 0:26:55.320 --> 0:26:58.480 Christian was even made to re enact a possible version 0:26:58.520 --> 0:27:01.680 of Geffener's murder, but none of it brought any real 0:27:01.720 --> 0:27:06.560 evidence to light. In May, Ertler was brought back in 0:27:06.640 --> 0:27:10.320 for questioning, and by the following day her story had 0:27:10.400 --> 0:27:14.879 changed again. Not only had she seen Geffera killed, but 0:27:15.000 --> 0:27:18.320 it was her that had killed him, shooting him with 0:27:18.320 --> 0:27:21.360 the rifle that Civer had handed to her on the night. 0:27:22.960 --> 0:27:26.160 A few days later, with the combination of good legal 0:27:26.200 --> 0:27:30.359 representation and their solid alibis, the police were forced to 0:27:30.440 --> 0:27:34.760 let Einar, Voldemar and Magnus go. Each had been kept 0:27:34.760 --> 0:27:38.160 for a hundred and five days in solitary confinement, with 0:27:38.240 --> 0:27:41.679 not one shred of evidence connecting them to either Guthmunda 0:27:41.920 --> 0:27:46.360 or Gefferson's disappearance. Not one of them would fully recover 0:27:46.480 --> 0:27:50.080 from the ordeal, with many thanks to the reports and 0:27:50.119 --> 0:27:53.560 the press continuing to suspect that perhaps they had been 0:27:53.600 --> 0:27:58.560 involved after all. Now without a driver for the narrative 0:27:58.640 --> 0:28:02.080 of how Civar, Ler and Christian had met Geffener at 0:28:02.119 --> 0:28:08.120 Keflevik Harbor, the police swiftly arrested Civar's old drug smuggling companion, 0:28:08.480 --> 0:28:14.520 Gujean Skephardinson, kept under similar circumstances to the other suspects, 0:28:14.920 --> 0:28:18.840 Gudjohn would too, eventually confess to assisting in the murder 0:28:19.000 --> 0:28:23.919 of Geffner Einesen. Throughout the summer of nineteen seventy seven, 0:28:24.520 --> 0:28:27.280 all suspects were brought before the High Court to give 0:28:27.320 --> 0:28:33.440 their testimonies regarding Guthmunder and Gefferson's apparent murders in December, 0:28:33.960 --> 0:28:37.080 despite not having a single piece of evidence to support it, 0:28:37.480 --> 0:28:41.360 save for the various and conflicting confessions, all of which 0:28:41.400 --> 0:28:44.880