Istal Woman - A New Perspective

There was no obvious way to identify the woman. No passport, no documents or set of as the labels had been removed from her clothes and the plastic bottles at the scene. The istal woman did not fit the stereotype of a typical scandinavian. This would have been even less common in norway in 19 70 than it would be today. Since nobody had reported her missing, they thought she may have been travelling alone. Back then, very few women travelled in norway on their own. And this made it easy for them to go to hotels and hostels and stay with foreign women. They got two hits in stevanger, which had about 80 thousand people in 19 70