{"id":18151,"date":"2022-10-20T08:41:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T08:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/the-unknown-car-in-the-birgitte-tengs-case-news-rogaland-local-news-tv-and-radio\/"},"modified":"2022-10-20T08:41:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T08:41:01","slug":"the-unknown-car-in-the-birgitte-tengs-case-news-rogaland-local-news-tv-and-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/the-unknown-car-in-the-birgitte-tengs-case-news-rogaland-local-news-tv-and-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"The unknown car in the Birgitte Tengs case – news Rogaland – Local news, TV and radio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Late in the evening on Friday 5 May 1995, Eigil Fagerland, Arild Iversen and another friend were out driving a car on Karm\u00f8y. After taking a short walk in the center of Kopervik shortly after midnight, Fagerland saw in the mirror that a police car with blue lights and sirens was coming behind them. Fagerland swerved to the side in Hovedgata in Kopervik to let the police car pass. A car was parked in front of him. According to the police log, the time is 00:07. – Then I saw a girl who looks like Birgitte three or four meters from us. She spoke to the driver through an open car door, says Eigil Fagerland when news meets him in exactly the same place 27 years later. Eigil Fagerland stopped on the right side of the street to let the police car pass him. At the car in front of him, he saw a girl who looked like Birgitte talking to the driver. Photo: Gisle J\u00f8rgensen \/ news – How did the car look? – A two-door sedan. Quite a stylish car. The car was neither new nor old, but well maintained. Eigil Fagerland is unsure of the colour, but thinks it may have been brown or beige. But it’s dark. He doesn’t see who the driver is or what he looks like. During the interview, news Fagerland shows pictures of some older Opel Ascona models. The reason is that the accused man was driving a green Opel Ascona on the night of the murder. – Now I was put out. This was similar. It was scary. I actually felt sick when I saw these pictures, says Fagerland. So also a girl who looked like Birgitte Kopervik center was the place to be on Karm\u00f8y in the evenings at weekends in the mid-1990s. The pedestrian section of Hovedgata in Kopervik was often packed with people. Driving “on the strip” in Kopervik to look at people’s life was quite common, which the three friends did this weekend. Arild Iversen says that Egil Fagerland sought him out the day after the murder, and thought they might have seen Birgitte. – He came to my door and said we had to report to the police as we could have driven past her. Iversen remembers the episode because the police car suddenly came driving with blue lights just behind them. – There were lots of people and cars in Hovedgata outside Torf\u00e6u’s pub, so we had to find a place to pull up to, says Iversen. None of the boys then knew who Birgitte Tengs was, but during the weekend they had seen pictures of her in the newspapers. – I remember a glimpse of a girl with fair hair standing by the parked car, and talking from the passenger side. I don’t remember if the door was open or if she spoke through the window, says Iversen. Iversen believes that the car was parked close to the end of the pedestrian street and that they themselves drove to the side to let the police car pass further down the street. – I don’t remember the color of the car or what type it was, says Iversen. Sisteman wishes to remain anonymous. He cannot remember seeing anyone who looked like Birgitte this Friday evening, but otherwise confirms the story of the other two. This is also consistent with the information he gave in police interviews. During interrogation, Eigil Fagerland was unable to remember the registration number of the car. It has bothered him for years. At the end of the pedestrian street, at the intersection between Statsr\u00e5d Vinjes gate and Hovedgata, Eigil Fagerland says he saw what was probably Birgitte Tengs getting into a car. Photo: Gisle J\u00f8rgensen \/ news – It has been tiring. I have laid awake at night thinking, for example, “if only I had remembered the registration number, the murder could have been solved”. All three testified during the Court of Appeal’s hearing of the case when Birgitte Tengs’ cousin was acquitted of the murder. At the time, their testimonies were almost ridiculed by state prosecutor Harald Gr\u00f8nlien, and they were described as not very credible. The reason for this is that the prosecution at the time had a theory that the cousin had returned to the center of Kopervik after he had gone to sleep at home, and that Birgitte and he had followed him home. Then the car track did not suit the prosecution very well. – I would like few to say that. We were at our full five that night and everyone was sober, says Iversen. The character Birgitte The police surveyed everyone who was in the center of Kopervik this evening. Among other things, to find out as much as possible about the route Birgitte Tengs took and who she met. Eigil Fagerland and the two comrades also reported to the police on the same weekend that the murder took place. Like everyone else who had been in the center of Kopervik on the evening of 5 May, they had to fill in a form. – We had to write down what we had done in Kopervik, who we had been with, who we had seen and whether we had seen anything special, says Fagerland. Because of what he saw, Kripos conducted several interviews with Fagerland. In one interview with the police, Eigil made a drawing of the girl he had seen. – She had a skirt down to her calves. That was the first thing I noticed. She had a hood or a backpack, and fine hair. There were also several people who saw Birgitte at the end of the pedestrian street in Kopervik on the night of the murder. A 16-year-old boy who was in Birgitte Tengs’ parallel class saw her walking alone out of the pedestrian street just before the police car drove up. Photo: Facsimile from VG In mid-August 1995, a 16-year-old boy who had attended Birgitte Tengs’ parallel class was questioned by the police. He had seen Birgitte alone at the end of the pedestrian street around the time the police car drove past with its blue lights and sirens on. According to the police, it was 00:07 when the police car drove through the center of Kopervik. To VG, investigation manager St\u00e5le Finsal stated at the time that “the police car is an excellent point of reference. That makes it overwhelmingly likely that it was Birgitte who got into the car.” Saw Birgitte by the green car One year later, a new witness appeared. A lady in her 40s from \u00c5kra, strengthened the theory that Birgitte was picked up by an unknown driver in Hovedgata in Kopervik. According to Bj\u00f8rn Olav Jahr’s book “Who killed Birgitte Tengs?” The tip came the day after the police had sent out a press release that the investigation into the murder was to be scaled back. In the police interview, the woman said that she and a friend had taken a taxi to the center of Kopervik late in the evening on Friday 5 May, and that a police car came driving in the opposite direction when they arrived. Just before the taxi parked at the pedestrian street, she saw a green car that looked a lot like her ex-boyfriend’s Mazda 929 with two doors. There were still details about the car that did not resemble the ex-boyfriend’s car. On the pavement stood a girl who reminded me of Birgitte Tengs. Both the age and the long light curly hair matched images the woman had seen of Birgitte in the media. To the witness, it looked like the driver and Birgitte were talking, but she was unable to see the driver because he was probably leaning over towards the passenger side. In the book “Who killed Birgitte Tengs”, Jahr wrote that the woman was sure that the car was green, and that she thought it was a Mazda 929. The police subsequently mapped all Mazda 929s in the district, but did not carry out any similar investigations into green cars. The car tracks leading to the crime scene There is another car observation from the night of the murder which is very interesting. A couple in their teens who went to Utgarden Folkeh\u00f8gskole were out on an evening walk. In \u00d8ygardsvegen, they were overtaken by a car at high speed. The time was then 00.15. The car swerved to the right just after passing, onto a short shortcut that leads to the eastern end of Gamle Sundvegen. The dirt road where Birgitte Tengs was found murdered the next morning. A loving couple who were walking in \u00d8ygardsvegen saw a car at high speed driving up the road to the right (which was open at the time) at approximately 00.15 on the night of the murder. The road is a shortcut to Gamle Sundvegen. Photo: Gisle J\u00f8rgensen \/ news The witnesses were, however, both unsure and somewhat disagreed about what they had seen. One thought there was a passenger with long blond hair in the car, while the other had only seen the driver. The color was perceived by one as darker in the paint than white, while the other did not remember. One believed that the make of car could have been Ford Taunus or Opel Kadett. In August 1995, investigation manager St\u00e5le Finsal stated the following to VG: “The timing of the two observations matches well. It could very well be the car the three boys saw in the center of Kopervik that passed the young people on \u00d8ygardsvegen”. Just before one o’clock on the night of the murder, an elderly man was driving on Sundvegen. He was well-known locally and used to drive Gamle Sundvegen. This night he didn’t do that because he knew the road was freshly whitewashed. In questioning, the man explained that he saw fresh car tracks entering Gamle Sundvegen at the same end where the couple had seen a car turning in just under three quarters of an hour earlier. Birgitte Tengs was killed approximately 150 meters from the other end of the 1.5 kilometer long Gamle Sundvegen. The traces of blood at the scene may also indicate that the killer used a car. On the dirt road, the crime scene investigators were able to follow the drag and blood tracks for approximately 35 meters from the left side of the road, across to the right side and then back to the left side. This may indicate that Birgitte was dragged around the killer’s car. According to the crime scene investigators, Birgitte Tengs was killed on the hilltop at the top of the picture. She was then dragged down the left side of the dirt road and in an arc around what was probably the killer’s car. Photo: Gisle J\u00f8rgensen \/ news After this, the killer opened a gate and hid her inside some bushes. The fact that Birgitte Tengs was driven to the crime scene is strengthened by the fact that no witnesses have seen Birgitte walk from the center of Kopervik to Gamle Sundvegen, a stretch of around 2.5 kilometres. The last confirmed sighting of her was made downtown. Defendant’s car The 52-year-old man who is charged with the murder of Birgitte Tengs drove a green Opel Ascona on the night of the murder. In questioning, he said that he was in Haugesund all evening, before he drove home to Karm\u00f8y, where he arrived at around 02.30. In 1995, the defendant disposed of a green Opel Ascona of this type. Photo: Illustration\/Syed Ali Shahbaz Akhtar \/ news This means that at one point or another this evening or night the man must have driven either past or through the center of Kopervik. Just a few days after the murder, the police had received two tips about the man, who is now charged with the murder of Birgitte Tengs. Both thought he was a so-called mode candidate. The one tip came from sheriff’s deputy Bjarne Sk\u00e5del. The second came from a psychologist who had been assaulted by the Karm\u00f8y man in his own home a few years earlier. A few weeks later, sheriff in Skudenes, Hallstein Tr\u00e6lhaug, also tipped off about the defendant. He had then seen the defendant driving around in a green Opel Ascona. The reason he reported it was that he did not know that the man had obtained a driving licence. One year after the murder, the police had a unique opportunity to secure traces from the Karm\u00f8y man’s Opel Ascona. At the end of May 1996, the defendant was caught by the police after a violent car chase in Haugesund and Karm\u00f8y, where he almost ran over a policeman. Earlier that night, the man had exposed himself several times in the center of Haugesund. In the man’s car, the police confiscated, among other things, a camera. In the images that were produced, the police found several young women. Some were identifiable. Because of the cases the 52-year-old was suspected of at the time, the policeman tipped off the investigation management in the Tengs case about the man. But whether the seizures that were made at the time are still there or have subsequently been examined for Birgitte’s DNA, the police will not answer. In the autumn of 1996, the man was convicted for, among other things, five cases of exposure in the center of Haugesund on various dates in May, an assault on a woman on Ris\u00f8y bridge and for violence against a public official. The defendant’s car was never examined by the police, and was wrecked on 21 June 2001. The police have found DNA on Birgitte Teng’s pantyhose which links the defendant to the crime scene. But no one has seen the 52-year-old in the center of Kopervik. When the trial against the accused starts in Haugaland and Sunnhordland district court on Monday 7 November, these car tracks will probably be of great importance. – He says that he was not in Kopervik on the evening in question, says the man’s defender, lawyer Stian Kristensen. The defendant’s defender, lawyer Stian Kristensen, says his client has explained in questioning that he was not in Kopervik on the evening\/night Birgitte Tengs was killed. Photo: Oystein Otterdal \/ news Kristensen makes no secret of the fact that the car observations will be a factor in the upcoming trial. – The car tracks, together with other topics, will be important to us, but we will wait until the trial to say something about how we will attack this, says Kristensen.
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