Hikers found a woman’s body in Isdalen, the Ice Valley above Bergen, on 29 November 1970, burned beyond recognition. Soot in her lungs showed she was alive during the fire. Around her: a liqueur bottle, water bottles, boots, an umbrella, jewellery, a matchbox, burned paper. Every label and identifying mark on all of it had been removed or rubbed away. Three days later two suitcases turned up at Bergen railway station, full of Deutsche Mark notes, wigs, cosmetics, maps and timetables, and every trace of identity had been stripped from those too. The autopsy found 50 to 70 sleeping pills in her, and gave phenobarbital and carbon monoxide as the cause. Interpol appeals went nowhere. The case was closed, then reopened in 2016. She has never been identified. Locals had already called the valley Death Valley before she was found.
Isdalen, Bergen, Norway
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