Someone else is taking responsibility for the threatening letters in mysterious mailings to Attorney Elden.

The Wara family car key and the so-called Dymo tape with attached writing are among the ingredients sent to attorney Elden. The prosecutor believes that it is Bertheussen who made the shipments.

After Tuesday’s lunch break, it was Police Superintendent Martin Bøyum at PST who took the witness stand. Now he tells of five submissions to attorney Elden that are related to the case. Unknown senders have claimed responsibility for the threats against Wara and write that they are behind all the letters.

The first shipment arrived in Elden in May of last year and contained an emergency hammer, string and a so-called Dymo tape with text.

The prosecution believes that all shipments to Elden were made by Bertheussen. This is because they contained objects and information that outsiders had not had access to. On the Dymo tape, for example, it said “dog pee in the lyrics.” Research has shown that there was dog urine on some of the letters. The police did not realize this until they had access to the letter.

Prosecutor: I had an assistant

One of the shipments was sent when Bertheussen was in the United States. The prosecution believes that they received help to send this shipment. Elden believes it shows that others were involved in the case.

No fingerprints were found on the bubble wrap envelopes sent to Elden.

The string in a plastic bag is of the same type as in the letter Bertheussen / Wara received in January last year. The same type of thread was seized at the couple’s home after Bertheussen was arrested in March last year.

Two journalists from Dagbladet and NRK also received emails about the case. Here, too, someone else has been to blame. The email to Dagbladet says that «It all starts when they hate frp where everyone is racist. It was fun playing with them and fucking the cop. But it went too far. The whole family ruined by this».

The email also indicated what kind of tablets the dust in the mailbox came from.

When it comes to email to NRK, it also contains information that was not available to most people.

Asked for Swedish help

Last summer, Attorney Elden received a new shipment containing a key to Bertheussen / Wara’s car that was exposed to vandalism. This shipment also contained Dymo tape with writing attached.

This shipment had Norwegian and Swedish stamps, but was shipped in Norway. Bøyum was quick to mention that Bertheussen’s card had been used in Strømstad a few days before the letter was sent.

In August of this year, Elden received a new letter. This was the Nässjö postmark in Sweden on August 3. Then the Norwegian police asked the Swedish police for help in finding the place from which the letter was sent.

A rental car that was rented by Wara and used by Bertheussen was used in Sweden on the day the letter was sent. Police received an overview of the border crossings in that car. The car was in Sweden for an hour and 23 minutes that day.

Bertheussen’s card was used that day to shop in Sweden. Surveillance photos from Systembolaget in Strömstad show that Bertheussen made purchases at Systembolaget and at a grocery store that day.

Police have not been able to establish that it was Bertheussen who sent the letter. The Norwegian police have established that the letter was not sent from Strömstad. Nässjö is 314 kilometers, or about four hours by car, from Strömstad. In other words, a significantly longer trip than Bertheussen that day.

“We are guilty”

The last letter to Elden, which arrived in mid-August, was also sent from Sweden.

“Today we send Elden new evidence that we are guilty,” the last letter read.

Also mentioned here was a schizophrenia medication that was found in powder form in Røa’s mailbox. Bertheussen has previously said that he has never used this drug.

The letter also contained other information that was not known to the public.

Fingerprints were found on letters and envelopes that do not belong to Bertheussen. However, PST can claim that the envelope in which the letter was found has only been sold in Norway. The police have not found any indication that Bertheussen was in Sweden when this letter was sent.

– It is remorse that is expressed in the shipments, and then others besides Bertheussen are identified as the perpetrator, Bøyum concludes.

– Is it common to use dymo rolls to write, asked defender Bernt Heiberg?

– No, replied Bøyum.