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On a summer day in 2018, Thursday 26 July, a body is found in a gorge next to Sørelva in the municipality of Lier. The police conclude that the dead person is a man. But he has no identification documents and his body bears the mark of having been away for a long time. Who is the man? And how did it end up in the gorge?
Kripos’ identification group is involved in the search for answers. The autopsy report shows that the man has been dead for several months. A DNA profile is secured, among other things, through the teeth of the deceased, although this is challenging. Only the lower jaw remains. It only has two teeth.
The police come out several times and ask the public for clues, but the dead man remains unidentified.
See more about the case in Åsted Norway on TV 2 at 21.40
THE LOCATION OF THE FINANCE: Jan-Henrik Håkestad, head of the investigation and intelligence department in the southeast police district, shows Åsted Norway the place where Adam Filipiuk was found dead. Photo: Espen Storsve / Åsted Norway
Daughter got in touch
Shortly before Christmas 2018, however, there will be a breakthrough in the case. Kripos’ identification group manages to develop a palm print of the man and takes a hit via Interpol. Around the same time, a woman from Poland discovered Åsted Norway’s Facebook post about the body found. She immediately contacts the police. It turns out that the dead man is his father.
The man is identified as 58-year-old Polish citizen Adam Filipiuk.
At the Drammen police station, they suddenly have a specific name to work with. Research shows that Filipiuk has been part of a community of Polish artisans. Shortly after the identification, the main theory of the police is that they killed him.
CONTINUING INFORMATION WANTED: Police Attorney Ole Jacob Garder in the Southeastern Police District. Photo: Espen Storsve / Åsted Norway
– The overall assessment is based on the site, the circumstances on the site, compared to the questioning of people in the environment in the surrounding circle. It is a special place where it was found. It is very full of pigs. And then they found him without identity documents, without a mobile phone, without cigarettes. Objects and things we have clarified through questioning reluctantly moved out, says police lawyer Ole Jacob Garder in the southeastern Åsted Norway police district.
40-year-old man charged
Now Åsted Norway can say that the case took a new turn in June this year.
– The police have charged a man in his 40s, a Polish citizen, with murder. This is the same person who earlier in the case was charged with false explanation, Garder says.
– What is it that makes the charge now change to murder?
– This is again with the circumstances surrounding the site, as well as the information that this person provided when questioning him about what Filipiuk should have done and how he should have moved just before disappearing, says the police lawyer.
The defendant explained, according to the police, that Filipiuk had got a job in Spain and was about to move.
– We now know that he has not, and there is also information in the case that points in the direction that it was highly unlikely that he would have gotten such a job, says Garder.
The police have investigated whether criminal environments or networks may be behind this. They don’t think so. Instead, one of the main hypotheses is that the case may have originated in a house in Griniveien on Røa in Oslo.
SHOULD HAVE LIVED HERE: Both the man accused of murder and the late Adam Filipiuk lived in this house in Griniveien on Røa in Oslo, according to police. Photo: Espen Storsve / Åsted Norway
During a six-month period, up to 150 different people must have lived in the house at different times. Among them were both the man accused of murder and Adam Filipiuk. Filipiuk is said to have lived here before he was found dead, just over 30 kilometers away, in the Lier Gorge.
I don’t want to explain
The defendant’s defense attorney, attorney Anders Green, says his client does not admit criminal guilt and does not understand the charge.
– You think it’s a tremendous burden, that the charge was changed from a false statement to a murder charge, Green tells Åsted Norway.
After the charge was changed, the man did not want to explain himself to the police.
– As I have perceived, it has nothing more to contribute. He has been completely honest and has said absolutely what he knows, and thinks it is strange that the case has gone the way it has taken and that it takes so long, says Green.
Still interested in the information
Despite the fact that a murder charge has been dropped, the police have yet to clarify many things. Because how did Adam Philip die? And how did it end up in the gorge?
– The police are interested in all information from the end of May to the beginning of June 2018. Especially in front of the address in Griniveien on Røa, where the deceased lived until his disappearance, says police lawyer Garder.
The police are also keeping open the possibilities for more people to become involved in the case.
“Although there is good reason to suspect the defendant in this murder, we still cannot rule out that there may be other perpetrators,” Garder says.
