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SAUMFART: Tom Hagen, accused of murder, got rid of this car for a period before being arrested, and it was in the trunk that the police thought he had found traces of blood. Photo: Tore Kristiansen, VG
A month before Tom Hagen’s arrest, police thought they might have found traces of blood on a car. The discovery had to be cross-checked with the relevant people.
The possible discovery of blood was in a car that, according to police theory, could have been used to drive Anne-Elisabeth Hagen away. Later, the discovery proved futile.
In the winter of 2020, the Lørenskog investigators were on their way to planning what would be Tom Hagen’s spring arrest. VG is reported to have worked with a possible series of pieces of evidence that was stronger than what was finally left to them.
At one point in the investigation, it might appear that the police had made some significant breakthroughs and findings in the case, but these later faded and did not become part of the basis of suspicion against Tom Hagen when he was taken into custody on the 29th. April this year.
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Blood pump
One of these evidences was marks on the trunk of a car. Preliminary investigations during the winter of 2020 indicated that the spots could be blood, VG reported. It was a car that the police had previously examined but was now going to be examined again.
At the time, the police had a theory that the car could have been used to transport Anne-Elisabeth Hagen out of the house in Sloraveien when she disappeared on October 31, 2018.
VG is informed that the investigations were very thorough and that the points were located in a way that could support this theory. The police asked the experts to verify what they thought was blood and compare it to the blood type of relevant people, where Tom Hagen was one of them.
But when investigations were completed in the spring, the results came back negative for the police: no blood was found in the trunk.
The shirt test
The absence of blood in the car was not the only negative finding for police this spring.
VG is informed that crime technicians in early winter 2020 worked to examine one of Tom Hagen’s garments in a dirty laundry basket in Sloraveien – a shirt carried biological material from Anne-Elisabeth Hagen.
According to information from VG, the police believed that the shirt could link Tom Hagen to the action at the scene. At the time he was under secret investigation.
But the results of the final analysis meant that the so-called shirt test was not part of the basis when Tom Hagen was arrested for the murder in April this year. VG was informed that the finding was not clear enough to the police.
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Various new discoveries
However, the findings of Anne-Elisabeth and Tom Hagen’s blood at the home remain part of the murder investigation, VG reports. The theory of the police is that he has donated blood, either as a murderer or as an accessory to murder, and that attempts have been made to wash his blood.
Additionally, Tom Hagen’s DNA was found under the velcro of one of Anne-Elisabeth Hagen’s sandals left at the scene.
This evidence was presented in court, but it was not enough, when Tom Hagen was released by the Eidsivating Court of Appeal on 7 May.
Following the arrest and search of Sloraveien 4, the police have made several findings that they themselves have described as interesting. Police are now working to compile them along with the known evidence they have in the case.
No comment
VG has asked the Eastern Police District a number of questions, but they do not want to comment on the case because they believe the information is of such a degree of detail that it is adequate to damage the investigation.
– Therefore, we have no comment on the questions, writes Police Inspector Agnes Beate Hemiø in an email to VG.
VG has asked the police to be more specific about what details may contribute to damaging the investigation, but the police do not want that.
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VG emphasizes that none of this information was used as a basis when Tom Hagen was presented for custody in late April.
Police also did not use the information when Hagen appealed the incarceration decision, which ended with his release.
When police went to court to ask for a decision to search two of Hagen’s properties in late June this year, this evidence was not presented as part of the basis for the murder charge against the billionaire.
In just three weeks, the police have been investigating the disappearance of Anne-Elisabeth Hagen for two years.
