The Brother in the Back Seat: Terje Antonsen and the Ørsta Murders
Friday night, 18 October 1974. A twelve-year-old girl thumbs a lift on a quiet road in Ørsta, Norway. A white Ford Taunus with black stripes pulls over. Two half-brothers are inside. She never makes it home.
Alexander Lawson tells the story of Terje Antonsen — the younger brother, the addict, the man psychiatrists called easily led — and the crimes he committed with serial killer Edgar Antonsen. Hitchhikers. A hidden cabin. A confession that only came when withdrawal broke him. Life sentences. A new name. A quiet death in Oslo.
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