True Nordic Crimes

When the first Icelandic jet was purchased, a number of pilots went to the US for training. Two of them did not finish the regimen, with catastrophic consequences.

Jealousy and commitment to kill were the roots of one of the most brutal murders in Iceland. It had been planned for months. A young man, well known in his community, was found naked and beaten to death in his own home.

In 2011, a small family run jewellery shop in Reykjavík Iceland was robbed in broad daylight. Four weeks of investigation brought the police all over Europe to in a search for the guilty parties.

Young mother of three children disappears after a night out with her best friend. She did not return home to her children the following day and was nowhere to be found. Her family and friends knew something was terribly wrong.

A woman who is fast asleep in her living room is brutally attacked with a hammer in the middle of the night. Even though one of her daughter witnesses the attack through a glass door she can't not help her screaming mother because the perpetrator had locked the doors.

At one point the biggest and most technically advanced Amphetamine Factory in Europe was in Iceland. It was run by ex-prisoners and one of them had studied chemistry at University level while in jail.

Well-known Icelandic rehab director preaches the word of God. He urges the women to practice BDSM sex with him to be free of the addiction.

In 1913 in Reykjavík, a pair of siblings have a big disagreement over money. The results are the slowest death in Icelandic history of murders.

In the early morning hours on a dark and cold day the forensic officer of the Police force is called out to a break in at a garage. A few hours later he is called out again, but this time there is a dead body, brutally murdered, lying on the pavement.

Two young men start a fashion shop together with world famous brands. Just a few days after they open, one of them disappears without a trace. He was well known in his community so everybody takes part of big search, even the person who knew all about what really happened.

Three men manage to steal over 2 million dollars from the telephone company that is owned and run by the government. The money was used to open a new and yet today a respectful television station. The scam ran over two years and took a lot of planning and deceiving.

A young girl loses her mind aboard an airplane on route from Copenhagen to Iceland. She is picked up by the police on arrival. But just after they find out she is to be sold to prostitution in Iceland, she is kidnapped again from where she was in police custody.

A group of men attempt to smuggle a large amount of drugs over the Atlantic Ocean from Denmark to the Faeroe Islands and Iceland. What they don't know is that the Coast Guard is observing them almost all the way.

A body is found in the harbour in a small village in Eastern Iceland. When the coroner's office inspects the body they find a massive amount of illegal drugs in the body´s stomach. An unbelievable story.

A young and beautiful girl from Africa comes to Iceland with her sailor boyfriend and gets married. A few years later they divorce and she opens up a brothel in the centre of Reykjavík, literally next door to the main Police station.