The Murder Diaries - Seven Times Over

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Tryggvi found an ally, a priest who believed in him and helped to smuggle the dozens of journals out of the prison, returning them when Tryggvi was released after serving eight years in jail. Now a parent herself, she holds the three books, with white, blue and green covers. On one her father has written: They also detail the drugs that he was given on virtually a daily basis, including diazepam and mogadon, to help him sleep and calm him down. They can also cause amnesia.

Kristin says he tried to resist their administration: One day, years later, Tryggvi destroyed the diaries in an attempt to forget the past. She kept hold of them, not telling a soul, even her mother. When she asked what she should do with the three she had kept, he said she would know when the time was right. Something made Kristin think she could trust her and she showed her the diaries.

The journalist could hardly believe what she was reading. These individuals had absolutely no knowledge of what happened -they were just trying to appease the police. Gisli holed up in his conservatory reading the diaries. When he emerged, many hours later, he was convinced the diaries changed everything. A week after Gisli expressed his thoughts on national television, the Icelandic government announced its committee into the police investigation. It looked like a remarkable coincidence. The inquiry spent 18 months looking at all the available evidence, and its report last year produced a damning conclusion, that the confessions were unreliable and therefore false.

Having looked at the evidence of their confinement and interrogations Gisli has reached his own conclusion. They were just trying to appease the police, they were trying to be co-operative because they knew if they were not co-operative they would be given more solitary confinement. When Snorri Magnusson, now head of the Icelandic police union, first joined the force 30 years ago there were rumours about how the police had mistreated the Gudmundur and Geirfinnur suspects.

Erla no longer feels the need to see the officers involved punished. Over the years her anger has passed, she even feels some sympathy for them. He set up the committee to investigate the police inquiry, when he was interior minister. She talks of a festering sore that is eating away at the justice system. Out on the red lava fields, where the police searched in vain for Geirfinnur, on a bright sunlit day I pass on a message from Gisli Gudjonsson, now celebrated in Iceland as the man whose intervention could finally see the convictions quashed.

She pauses for a long time, dabbing at her eyes as they well with tears. They convinced themselves that a group of petty criminals on the fringes of society were a gang of hardened killers.

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After 40 years, is there - anywhere in the recesses of his memory - any doubt that maybe he was, after all, a murderer? He leans in and his eyes widen: There is still this confusion You think you have been driving somewhere in the dark. Spent years trying to overturn his conviction. He moved to Copenhagen and ended up on the streets where he died in aged Remained in Iceland with her daughter. She trained as a language teacher and now teaches Icelandic to newly arrived migrants. Married and had two children.

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He had a string of manual jobs. He now lives alone in Reykjavik and rarely talks about the case.

He had three children, one of whom died in After developing cancer Tryggvi died in at the age of Settled down and has a stable family life. He works with disadvantaged children. He has never talked publicly about the case since his release. Moved to Denmark, where he married and started a family. He trained as a Lutheran minister and returned to Iceland.

The Reykjavik Confessions The mystery of why six people admitted to roles in two murders, when they couldn't remember anything about the crimes. This story was first published in May On a bitter Icelandic night in , teenager Erla Bolladottir was having a nightmare. Voices were whispering outside her room. What were they saying? It seemed so real. Terrified, she wet the bed. The dream would continue to haunt her for years to come. Gudmundur never reached home. Geirfinnur Einarsson shared the same second name as Gudmundur but the two were not related.

Valtyr Sigurdsson, a young lawyer, was assigned to the case. There was an added impetus for the investigators to solve these disappearances.

The Murder Diaries - Seven Times Over

The police were listening too. He was Saevar Ciesielski. In December , nearly two years after the first disappearance, Saevar's luck ran out. She recognised him at once from a school disco several years earlier. When she told her interrogators about this, they latched on to it. Erla was convinced, wrongly it turned out, that the statement would be dismissed as nonsense.

He started talking, admitting his part and going on to implicate his closest friends. First was Kristjan Vidar Vidarsson, a big man with a reputation as a tough guy. The sidekick of the group, he struggled to cope with the isolation of the interrogation.

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And that Saevar with his outsider looks and long, lank, hair was its leader. The police knew that Erla was their best way to get to Saevar. If Erla hoped that helping the police would get her out of trouble a second time, she was wrong. Their search brought them to Gudjon Skarphedinsson, a year-old former teacher. Gudjon had embraced the s with an easy-going attitude to sex and drugs. So much so that he let Saevar, a former pupil of his, smuggle drugs into Iceland using his car. Now he had to get them to give detailed, consistent confessions of exactly what had happened.

The body had then been burned while Erla stood by and watched it being done. She signed her confession, telling how she had disposed of the body. So where was the body? This happened far more with the other suspects. Gudjon actually looked forward to the chance to see the outside world.

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He is interested, and his doubts are confirmed when another body is discovered. There is a killer at large.