Initially, the Norwegian police treated the case as a kidnapping for ransom, conducting their investigation in secret for several months to avoid tipping off the alleged kidnappers. However, after months of dead ends and a lack of proof of life, the police changed their main hypothesis to .
The disappearance of from her home in Lørenskog on October 31, 2018, remains one of the most baffling and high-profile criminal mysteries in modern Norwegian history.
On a quiet Halloween morning, the 68-year-old wife of billionaire real estate mogul vanished without a trace from their residence outside Oslo. When Tom Hagen returned home from work that afternoon, he found a ransom note demanding €9 million in the cryptocurrency Monero . The note warned that if the police or media were contacted, Anne-Elisabeth would be killed. A Shift in Investigation
Investigators have spent years trying to track the digital movements of the "kidnappers," but the privacy-centric nature of Monero has made it nearly impossible to identify the wallet holders.
Initially, the Norwegian police treated the case as a kidnapping for ransom, conducting their investigation in secret for several months to avoid tipping off the alleged kidnappers. However, after months of dead ends and a lack of proof of life, the police changed their main hypothesis to .
The disappearance of from her home in Lørenskog on October 31, 2018, remains one of the most baffling and high-profile criminal mysteries in modern Norwegian history.
On a quiet Halloween morning, the 68-year-old wife of billionaire real estate mogul vanished without a trace from their residence outside Oslo. When Tom Hagen returned home from work that afternoon, he found a ransom note demanding €9 million in the cryptocurrency Monero . The note warned that if the police or media were contacted, Anne-Elisabeth would be killed. A Shift in Investigation
Investigators have spent years trying to track the digital movements of the "kidnappers," but the privacy-centric nature of Monero has made it nearly impossible to identify the wallet holders.