Death Came in a Taunus: Edgar Antonsen
A white Ford Taunus with black racing stripes stops on a dark road in Ørsta. A twelve-year-old girl puts her thumb out for a lift home. She never arrives.
Alexander Lawson tells the story of Edgar Antonsen — one of Norway’s few serial killers — from the 1962 murder of neighbour Bertha Holten, wrongly written off as suicide, to the 1974 rape-murders of photographer Oddbjørg Helene Jystad and twelve-year-old Bodil Brungot, committed with his half-brother Terje. Released after a rape sentence, Antonsen rebuilt a life in a quiet west-coast town. Released again after life imprisonment, he took a…
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