The Orderud Case
Triple murder on the farm

Production year: 2018

Duration: 6 x 45´

Genres: Current Affairs, MipTv 2019

Origin country: Norway

Production company: Monster Format AS

Original title: Gåten Orderud

In The Orderud Killing crime-journalist Øystein Milli hunts new possible leads in Norway´s biggest unsolved murder case. In May 1999 an elderly farmer and his wife, Kristian and Marie Orderud and their 46 years old daughter are brutally shot and killed in their sleep in their own home at Orderud farm in Sørum outside Oslo. The triple murder shock´s Norway and the case creates huge media interest.

Two years after the murders 4 persons are convicted of accessory to murder. The murdered couple´s son and his wife, Per and Veronica Orderud were both convicted to 21 years in prison and Veronicas sister, Kristin Kirkemo, and her boyfriend, Lars Grønnerød were convicted to 16 years and 18 years in prison.

However, no-one was ever convicted for the actual murder of three innocent people that spring night in 1999. The fact that the murder case never has been solved still hunts Øystein Milli. In the Orderud Killing he looks at the whole case again, looking for new clues and sheds lights on new parts of the case. The creators of this true-crime series gained access to the police´s own crime scene videos, all the evidence and also the video recordings from the Court of Appeal.

This will give the viewers a new insight to the case, to what happened on the night of the murder, the evidence and also how the case was handled in the court system. The result is a fascinating, thrilling, thought provoking and exciting true-crime series. Is there a chance he can uncover new sides of the story that will lead to closure?

 

 

In The Orderud Killing crime-journalist Øystein Milli hunts new possible leads in Norway´s biggest unsolved murder case. In May 1999 an elderly farmer and his wife, Kristian and Marie Orderud and their 46 years old daughter are brutally shot and killed in their sleep in their own home at Orderud farm in Sørum outside Oslo. The triple murder shock´s Norway and the case creates huge media interest.

Two years after the murders 4 persons are convicted of accessory to murder. The murdered couple´s son and his wife, Per and Veronica Orderud were both convicted to 21 years in prison and Veronicas sister, Kristin Kirkemo, and her boyfriend, Lars Grønnerød were convicted to 16 years and 18 years in prison.

However, no-one was ever convicted for the actual murder of three innocent people that spring night in 1999. The fact that the murder case never has been solved still hunts Øystein Milli. In the Orderud Killing he looks at the whole case again, looking for new clues and sheds lights on new parts of the case. The creators of this true-crime series gained access to the police´s own crime scene videos, all the evidence and also the video recordings from the Court of Appeal.

This will give the viewers a new insight to the case, to what happened on the night of the murder, the evidence and also how the case was handled in the court system. The result is a fascinating, thrilling, thought provoking and exciting true-crime series. Is there a chance he can uncover new sides of the story that will lead to closure?

 

 

The Orderud Case
Triple murder on the farm

Production year: 2018

Duration: 6 x 45´

Genres: Current Affairs, MipTv 2019

Origin country: Norway

Production company: Monster Format AS

Original title: Gåten Orderud

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