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At 1:30 p.m. on October 31, 2018, Hagen returned home. He had called his wife several times without getting an answer. Hagen says he was afraid she had gotten sick and therefore went to her house to look for her.
The husband did not find his wife in the house. Instead, Hagen says, he discovered an envelope on a wooden chair in the hallway.
The envelope contained the much-talked about threatening letter with the message that Anne-Elisabeth Hagen (68) had been kidnapped, and that her husband had to pay nine million euros in monero cryptocurrency to take her home.
Thoroughly Investigated: Forensic technicians have searched the home in Fjellhamar for clues. Photo: Daniel Sannum Lauten / TV 2
Under the envelope, Hagen found, according to his own explanation, a watch, his wife’s wedding ring that he had worn for 49 years and a ring.
I have different monetary requirements
After finding his wife’s letter and objects, Hagen contacted the police, who opened a full-scale investigation that was then kept hidden from the public for ten weeks.
On January 27, 2019, when the case became public, Hagen received an encrypted email from the alleged counterpart. The content of the email was threatening.
Among other things, it was about Hagen trying to “fuck” the other party because he got in touch with the police. He was also asked to pay 2.25 million euros to obtain proof that his wife was alive.
A few months later, on July 8, 2019, he received a new email urging him to negotiate with the other party.
The ransom request was reduced at the same time by about 40 million crowns, while now he could get a life certificate if he paid 1.35 million euros, about 13 million crowns.
The next day, July 9, the billionaire paid for a life certificate.
The content of the messages has been previously reproduced by VG.
– Lost detail
To show that they are actually the ones behind the disappearance, the other party writes about the objects Hagen has explained that he found under the envelope.
But there is a problem: in both emails, the other party forgets to mention one of the three items.
They write about watch and a ring, not watch and two rings, which is correct, according to Hagen’s explanation.
TV 2 is aware that the billionaire accused of murder has shown concern about this detailed error. He has raised the issue both in questioning and in a note he sent to police in the fall of 2019.
In the memo, he theorizes that the person or persons who committed the crime were so stressed that they have forgotten the detail.
Hagen also reveals that the author of the email is someone other than the person who carried out the abduction, and that the details of the person in question have not been accurately reproduced.
“Perhaps it could also be that the person or persons behind him are not used to carrying out a kidnapping and therefore make a mistake,” Hagen writes.
Hagen’s defender, attorney Svein Holden, does not want to answer TV 2’s questions about the case.
Don’t believe in the garden
TV 2 has also posed several questions related to the case to the investigation leadership, but the answer is that “the police, for the sake of the investigation, have no comment on the questions.”
In any case, the police do not believe Hagen’s explanation. He was charged in April last year with murder or complicity in murder.
The police believe that he has deliberately misled the investigation. They also believe that Anne-Elisabeth Hagen was never abducted, but that she was probably murdered in the house and that the perpetrators have tried to make it look like a kidnapping.
They also believe that there are various contributors to the crime.
The garden itself denies any involvement with the wife’s disappearance.
You get experience
Although the police have been quiet in recent months, they are known to have spent a lot of time analyzing both the threatening letter with the ransom demand and the two emails from the alleged counterpart.
Among other things, they have turned to British forensic linguist Tim Grant for help.
The key questions to get answers are as follows:
- Is it a Norwegian or a foreigner who wrote the letter?
- Is the sender of the letter and the emails the same person?
- Could there be words and expressions in the letter that in other ways can help identify the author?
Recently it emerged that the police believe that the author of the letter has Norwegian as his first language.
In addition to text analysis, the search for Anne-Elisabeth Hagen has been a high priority. Police have mapped 122 locations both in Norway and abroad, but have not found it.
