3case filesUpdated Jul 13, 2026
Casepin holds 3 case files in Iceland. By legal status, 2 marked solved and 1 marked overturned.
SOLVEDListenReykjavík, Iceland · 2017
Birna Brjánsdóttir, a 20-year-old Icelandic woman, disappeared in central Reykjavík in the early hours of 14 January 2017 after leaving a nightclub, and her body was recovered from the sea eight days later. Greenlandic trawler crew member Thomas Møller Olsen was convicted of her murder and sentenced to 19 years in prison, a verdict Iceland's High Court upheld on appeal in November 2018.
Credit: NephetsCC BY-SA 4.0SourceOVERTURNEDListenHafnarfjörður, Iceland · 1974
Two men vanished in Iceland in 1974, and six people who signed confessions after prolonged isolation and interrogation were convicted despite the absence of bodies, witnesses, or forensic evidence; Iceland's Supreme Court acquitted five of them in 2018.
Image recordPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenWestfjords, Iceland · 1615
In 1615, following a shipwreck, dispute, and theft, at least 32 Basque whalers were killed by armed groups in Iceland's Westfjords under a decree from local sheriff Ari Magnússon — the last documented massacre in Icelandic history.
The files run from 1615 to 2017. The 1610s hold the most, with 1 file. The oldest is Slaying of the Basques, from 1615.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (2) and disappearance cases (1).
1 file of the 3 has coverage attached: 1 video, podcast or documentary from 1 creator.
Every file is written from cited sources and pinned where it happened, and every person named carries the legal status the record gives them. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
This page updates from the published files, so counts and statuses change the day a record does. Open any file for its timeline, its sources and the coverage worth your time, or play it as a narrated case file.
File:Hegningarhúsið Exercise Yard.jpg — Credit: NephetsCC BY-SA 4.0Source3. By status: 2 solved and 1 overturned. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Slaying of the Basques, from 1615. Open the file
Murder of Birna Brjánsdóttir, with 1 video, podcast or documentary linked from its file. Open the file
Coffeehouse Crime (1 case).
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