In January, the state attorney in Trøndelag thought that Odinsaka should be dropped. The most likely thing is that the 18-year-old is dead and that he ended up in the sea at Brattøra in Trondheim, the public prosecutor believes. Odin’s parents appealed the decision to the Attorney General, but were not supported in that several aspects of the case should be re-investigated. Not getting an answer to what happened to the son is hard to bear. – We are surprised that things we have recorded are not taken into account, says father Dan Yngve Jacobsen to news on Thursday. One of several images from a surveillance camera showing Odin in the center of Trondheim on the night of 18 November 2018. Photo: Police These are some of the incidents that the public prosecutor goes through in connection with the arrest: The hotel gang The night Odin was on the town in Trondheim, he met four other acquaintances who gradually even in a rented hotel room in the center of Trondheim. All the comrades have been questioned by the police. They have said that they last saw Odin when they parted ways outside the hotel at four o’clock on the night of Sunday. Video surveillance confirms this. The police received information that there should have been a conflict between Odin and another member of the gang. Questioning the men should have revealed that the conflict had been resolved because Odin seemed to be in a “good” mood that evening. This is clear from the written review of the case by the state attorney. This was made public on Thursday when the case was dismissed by the Attorney General. The public prosecutor believes that the alibia and telephone data of the gang have been carefully reviewed. No one from the hotel gang was near Odin when he walked towards the harbor at Brattøra just before 6 o’clock in the morning. “The state prosecutors cannot see that further questioning and investigations about the people in the hotel room this evening provide reasonable prospects for informing the case further,” writes state prosecutor Kaia Strandjord. The picture was taken from a recovered video file from an e-surveillance camera at the port in Trondheim on Sunday at 12 noon. Odin had been seen in the same place six hours before. Photo: Police The white car In March 2020, almost two and a half years after Odin disappeared, the police released a video of a white car that was found on recovered video footage from Trondheim harbour. A man stops at some pallets, backs in, gets out of the car and disappears behind it. This is Sunday morning, six hours after Odin was caught on video in the same place. It was here, among other things, that a shoe belonging to Odin was found a couple of weeks after the disappearance on 18 November 2018. The police had tried to find who the driver was for many months before they went public to get help. A tip from the public helped them find the driver of the white car. In the hearing, he admitted to having taken Odin’s belongings from the port on the Sunday in question. These were things that in April 2019 were found partially burnt out in a fire at Jonsvatnet 15 kilometers from the port. But it was not the first time the man had been questioned about the Odinsaka case. Secret investigation after discovery Just before the police considered ending the investigation of Odinsaka in the spring of 2019, a private person reported to the police and said he had found things in a bonfire at Jonsvannet. These things the tipster thought could belong to the missing person. An extensive secret investigation was launched to find out if Odin had been at Lake Jonsvatnet after he left the center on the night of Sunday. Hidden cameras were set up and 128 people traveling in the area were questioned if they knew anything about Odin. One of those who was seen on the secret camera in the forest in April 2019 was the man with the white car from the harbour. 14 times his car was observed on camera at Jonsvatnet, according to the written review from the public prosecutor. But in the questioning in August 2019, he explained that he did not know either Odin or the objects in the fire. This would turn out not to be true. The extensive investigation at Jonsvatnet did not lead the police closer to the answer to what had happened to Odin. Panicked The man with the white car was called in for another hearing in the spring of 2020 after the video clip from Brattøra helped the police find the driver. Confronted with the fact that his car had been seen many times at Jonsvatnet, the man admitted that he had not told the truth in the first questioning the year before. Now he explained that he had brought his belongings with him from Brattøra on Sunday morning 18 November. Only a few weeks later did he realize that it could be Odin’s things. Then the driver panicked because he didn’t want to get involved in Odinsaka. That is why he decided to get rid of the things by burning them at Lake Jonsvatnet, according to himself. The police have thoroughly reviewed his history and life. Tollbooths, telephone data and witness interviews will show that he was not in the vicinity of Odin before he disappeared or at Brattøra on Sunday morning. “This must also be seen in the context of the fact that there is no evidence in the case that Odin was with someone else at the time of his disappearance or that he was pursued by someone who may have intended to hit him with something punishable.” But the public prosecutor does not hide that the man with the white car gave the police a lot of extra work: “The destruction of these objects instead of bringing them in to the police has led to an extensive investigation. In the public prosecutor’s opinion, (NN. name of the driver) has acted highly reprehensibly as this has cost a great deal of investigative resources and the postponement of a decision in this case”. Mother Ingunn Hagen and father Dan Yngve Jacobsen on the quay where their son was last seen on a surveillance camera at Trondheim harbour, Photo: Morten Andersen / news – Suspicious Odin’s parents have been heavily involved in the case ever since he disappeared. He refers, among other things, to the fact that people who drown in the river or the sea in central Trondheim are found sooner or later. This is shown by statistics from both the fire service and the rescue company. – The fact that Odin’s body has never been found in the sea, we perceive in itself as suspicious, says Dan Yngve Jacobsen. They have recorded this to the Attorney General, who replies that there are also missing persons cases from the area where the person has never been found. The Attorney General therefore believes that it is not suspicious in itself that Odin has not been found if he ends up in the sea.
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The Attorney General believes that nothing criminal has happened in the Odin case – news Trøndelag
