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On the last October 2018, Anne-Elisabeth Hagen was reported kidnapped. Just 18 months later, her husband, billionaire Tom Hagen, was arrested on suspicion of murder or assisting in the murder of his wife.
– It is surprising that it will take a year and a half to reach this conclusion. In this type of case, it is the spouse who has done it, it should be one of the first hypotheses to work with, says Leif GW Persson to Norwegian VG.
“Experience in lanterns”
The statement received Dr. Ivar Fahsing, a longtime homicide investigator and investigator at the Norwegian Police College, to respond.
“Once again, the phenomenon that GW is trying to trick into gaining experience in things it doesn’t understand,” he writes on his Facebook page.
Fahsing has been involved in the Hagen case as a lawyer and has written dozens of textbooks on police investigations.
According to him, the first suspect in this type of case is always the spouse.
– The fact that this has taken time is the result of a particularly challenging and exhaustive investigation in which one actively tries to discover if it can be other than the typical way. It indicates that he has taken it seriously and has not been guided by the suspicion that prevails among people and understanding people.
Used by the exclusion method
– Contrary to what Leif GW Persson says, this is a consequence of exhaustive methodology, but it seems to completely omit the fact that one must have clear evidence before arresting someone in such a serious case.
He says the police have worked to exclude all other explanations before the arrest.
– What would it look like, what signal would you send in a contemporary, if a man reports that his wife was kidnapped, one of the richest men in Norway, and the police capture him immediately? Then no one would have called the police after that, he says.
Unique fall in Norway
Tom Hagen was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of murder or assisting in the murder of his wife, a decision he is now appealing.
The investigation so far has required extensive police resources and is a unique case in Norwegian criminal history. Not least because it was first investigated as a kidnapping.
To illustrate why Tom Hagen’s arrest has taken so long, Ivar Fahsing mentions the footprints found at the couple’s home in connection with the alleged kidnapping.
– You have this footprint and you must rule out that there is no other footprint than Tom Hagens. First, we have to locate all 1,500 people who may have bought this shoe, and then all of them must be searched for reasons and alibi. The same goes for all other tracks. So you understand that this is extensive.
