The Isdal Woman: A Spy Burned Alive? Eight Fake Passports, 50 Years Without a Name

Unclosed | True Crime · Oct 23, 2026 · 17m

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On the morning of November 29, 1970, in a valley just outside the city of Bergen, in Norway, a twelve-year-old girl hiking with her father and her younger sister saw the burned body of a woman among the rocks. As the police went through the things this woman had left behind, they found that every piece of clothing she was wearing had its label cut out, and that someone had scraped the prescription sticker off a jar of ointment in a suitcase she left behind. When she stayed at hotels, she had used at least eight different names.

This episode is about the case of the Isdal…