A sectioned home in the Kampen area, near the center of Stavanger, has been an important part of the investigation of Vassbakk into the murder of Tina Jørgensen in Stavanger in September 2000. Vassbakk lived for longer periods from 2000-2004 in a room that he disposed of in this the house, including the weekend Tina Jørgensen disappeared after a trip to town. However, it has not been publicly known that the same home is also part of the investigation into Johny Vassbakk in the Birgitte case. One of Birgitte Tengs’ closest friends in the 90s, lived in the basement flat – at the same time as Vassbakk’s stay in the same house. news has come across a photo of the red Opel that Johny Vassbakk drove in Stavanger in the 2000s. This was the car he collided with on the weekend Tina Jørgensen disappeared. Here the car is parked outside the aforementioned home in Stavanger. Photo: Private Police Inspector Unni Byberg Malmin in the Sør-West police district confirms to news that Birgitte’s friend lived in the house in question for a six-month period in the autumn of 2001 when she went to school in Stavanger. Has rejected relationships news also knows that another of Birgitte’s best friends visited the Kampen house. Her sister and brother-in-law owned the house at the time, and they lived there from 1999 to 2004. Birgitte and the two friends who stayed in the house at the same time as Vassbakk had a close relationship. This is evident from a number of police interviews from the murder investigation. Johny Vassbakk has always denied that he had relations with Birgitte Tengs or any of her family or friends. None of Birgitte’s friends have expressed that they knew Vassbakk either. This photo of Johny Vassbakk was taken in the summer of 2000, just after he had moved into the aforementioned home at Kampen in Stavanger. Photo: Private The police confirm that they are aware of the connection between Vassbakk and Birgitte’s two friends through the residence in question in Stavanger. The police have been concerned that the former home owner and his spouse, each in their own way, had close links both to Johny Vassbakk and to close friends of Birgitte Tengs. – What have you done to investigate the connection more closely? – Our focus in the investigation against the defendant in the Tengs case has been to map his movements in Stavanger, especially the weekend when Tina disappeared. But we have also followed up on information about his movements in Stavanger, both before and after the weekend in question, says police inspector Unni Byberg Malmin. “Lived your own life” news has tried to get in touch with Birgitte’s friend who lived in the house at Kampen at the same time as Vassbakk. The woman, who has today changed her name, does not want to comment on her stay in Stavanger, according to a close relative we have spoken to. The former owner of the house at Kampen has said in a police interview that he never spoke to Vassbakk about what Vassbakk did in the evenings and at night during his stays in Stavanger. “He lived his own life when he was in Stavanger and had his own key to the house,” says an interview with him from 2013. According to the homeowner, Vassbakk worked in 2000 refurbishing the basement apartment in the house that Birgitte’s friend moved into that year afterwards. In a police interview, the homeowner says that it was not natural for him to talk to Vassbakk, or to come up with something with him: “The witness was most concerned that Vassbakk should finish his work in the basement.” The homeowner has never wanted to talk to the media. – Vassbakk had to leave Karmøy news has tracked down another woman who lived in the house at the time. She lived on the first floor, between Johny Vassbakk and Birgitte’s friend, but has never been questioned by the police. The woman tells a completely different version than what the former homeowner did in his interrogation. According to her, the landlord and Vassbakk had close contact. – I remember that the landlord came to me in the spring of 2000 and said that an acquaintance of his would soon be moving in who needed to get away from Karmøy. The landlord gave the impression that he wanted to take care of Vassbakk to get him back on track. I had the impression that they knew each other well. When Johny Vassbakk appeared, I remember him as a rather stingy and shy person. I talked to him a lot, he was in the house for several weeks at a time, she says. On the other hand, she had no contact with Birgitte’s friend downstairs, other than seeing her at regular intervals. Stole shoes and underwear for several years Until the turn of the millennium, Vassbakk had a lot of crime on his record from his raids on Karmøy and in Haugesund; several assaults on women while he was sexually aroused, as well as a number of cases of exposure and telephone harassment. Among other things, he was close to killing his own psychologist. From the summer of 2000, Vassbakk suddenly shifted his attention to the Stavanger region. Here he continued to drive around in his car on his own, and several times entered the homes of strangers where he stole women’s shoes and underwear. He has been convicted of a number of such matters in Stavanger in 2001, 2002 and 2003. news knows that the police have been concerned about Vassbakk’s sudden transfer from North to South Rogaland, but that they have never received any good answers as to why he did this. Vassbakk was for a period charged with the Tina murder, but was never prosecuted. In February, however, he was sentenced to 17 years in prison for the murder of Birgitte Tengs. In 2017, the author of this article published the crime documentary “When Tina was killed” about the murder of Tina Jørgensen. The police’s suspicions against Vassbakk in the Tina case are discussed in a separate chapter.
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Living in Stavanger links Vassbakk to Birgitte’s best friends – news Rogaland – Local news, TV and radio
