– He was in a special situation, had been questioned a number of times and was hung up in the media. We had hoped he would express something in writing or in conversation with someone. We are not in a position to uncover that type of reaction, said head of investigations in Kripos, Dag Uppheim, in his presentation of the Tengs investigation on Monday. The police had periods of both secret searches, surveillance and camera surveillance of the house of the 52-year-old accused in Karmøy. LEAD THE INVESTIGATION: The head of the investigation in Kripos, Dag Uppheim, gave an account of the investigation in court on Monday. Photo: Marthe Synnøve Johannessen / news In addition, call logs were obtained, and for periods over several months in 2019 and 2020, the police listened to the defendant’s telephone conversations. – To a small extent, we found conversation partners we perceived as close and familiar, says Uppheim. The secret investigation started in March 2019. The police then received the report which showed that DNA from Tengs’ tights could be linked to the 52-year-old. The DNA found on the pantyhose is the police’s most important evidence in the case. – We wanted to mirror his PC, but because all computer equipment was locked in a box, we had to return a few more times than was desirable, says Uppheim. On one of these occasions, a lock knob on an internal door was set in the wrong position. This made the 52-year-old suspect that someone had been inside his house. He then installed camera surveillance on his house. More tips about the accused in May 1995 Head of investigations in the Norwegian Criminal Investigation Department, Dag Uppheim, presented the investigation material from different eras in court on Monday. Four days after the murder of Birgitte Tengs, the tip came from the psychologist to the defendant. Five years earlier he attacked her at her home and put a noose around her neck. On the same day, they received a tip from a sheriff at the man’s home, that the defendant was driving a green Ascona. THE CAR: In 1995, the defendant owned a green Opel Ascona of this type. Photo: Illustration/Syed Ali Shahbaz Akhtar / news Two further tips about the man came from the police the same month. The tips concerned criminal history. The following year, Grete Strømme submitted a note about the defendant’s criminal history to the police. The defendant has only been questioned as a witness during this period. Once in 1995 and once in 1996. The police secured video footage from the wrong day At the very beginning of the investigation, in 1995, the police conducted a survey of around 1,500 people. More than 400 of these were taken in for questioning. Petrol stations on Karmøy were also checked by going through tills and video recordings. One recording was of such poor quality that one could not see who was on the films. And another recording turned out to be from the wrong day. This was not discovered until Kripos had to go through the material. – In sum, the electronic material is not suitable for mapping and timing all movements on Karmøy this evening, says Uppheim. Went through 10,000 documents When the case was reopened in 2017, with assistance from Kripos, work began to systematically go through between 7,000 and 10,000 documents in the case. If someone said they saw an unknown car or person, Kripos has tried to summarize it with witness accounts. Uppheim describes the police’s efforts in 1995 as “wholehearted with the tools they had available.” – But there is no doubt that today we have analysis tools that are better suited for compiling information, he says. Birgitte Tengs was found murdered on 6 May 1995. A 52-year-old man from Karmøy is now charged in the Tengs case, and the trial begins on Monday 7 November 2022.
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