the murders – Accuses Kripos chief of evidence fraud

“False Evidence”

The sensational review states:

“I (Per Orderud, editor’s note) hereby report former Kripo’s first officer Tore Per Bakken for false testimony in court, false accusation and provision or complicity in the provision of false evidence in connection with criminal proceedings against me after the triple murder of my mother, father and sister in the kårboligen at Orderud farm in Pentecost 1999”.

During the proceedings at the Eidsivating Court of Appeal in 2002, Kripos first officer Tore Per Bakken testified. He showed two pieces of wood, and said that a projectile had been found in the wood.

In court, Bakken explained that the projectile had been found after Lars Grønnerød, who together with Per Orderud, Veronika Orderud and Kristin Kirkemo was convicted of complicity in the murders of Orderud, had identified a place in Ski municipality where it had been shot with one of the two of the weapons used in the murders at the farm.

Two became more

Per Orderud and Tore Sandberg have been asking for access to the two pieces of wood that were shown in court for several years. Last summer, an investigator from the Reinstatement Commission came to Sandberg with the pieces of wood.

– Then suddenly there were not two pieces of wood, but five, says Sandberg.

Before he adds:

– The investigator from the Re-admission Commission agreed that there were no traces on the five pieces of wood.

The private investigator photographed the pieces of wood, and found no trace of any projectile. Last autumn, the five pieces of wood were analyzed at the forensic laboratory at the Oslo police district.

The copper jacket

– Then we were told that traces of lead had been found in one of the three new pieces of wood. The problem was that no lead projectile had been fired at Orderud farm. A few weeks later we were told that traces of copper had been found on a new, and to us completely unknown, piece of wood, Tore Sandberg tells Dagbladet.

– One of the Orderud case’s most important pieces of technical evidence has now been changed, 23 years after the murders.

– In court, it was stated that the same weapon – caliber 38 – that was used on Orderud farm, was also used to shoot at a tree root in Ski. The alleged discovery of a projectile was never photo-documented. Now 23 years after the triple murder, we are introduced to four new pieces of wood, as alleged evidence, says Tore Sandberg.

The review

In the report to the Bureau of Police Affairs from Per Orderud it is stated:

“The picture that Tore Per Bakken showed during his testimony before the Court of Appeal consists of two pieces of wood that were put together against each other without any visible traces of any projectile. In court, Tore Per Bakken pointed a laser pen at the piece of wood and said that was where the projectile had been.

In the report, reference is made to a letter from the Re-enrolment Commission of 19 December 2022, after the commission had approached Tore Per Bakken and the Forensic Science Section at the Oslo Police District.

In the review from Per Orderud it is further stated:

1. The Forensic Science Section found no trace of any projectile in the two pieces of wood that were presented in the case/before the court in 2002.

2. In one of the 3 new pieces of wood that Knut Jan Nielsen (investigator in the Re-admission Commission, editor’s note) brought to Tore Sandberg on 02.06.2022, damage had appeared on a piece of wood that is not there on Tore Sandberg’s photo of the same point on the piece of wood. After the Forensic Science Section had examined the 5 pieces of wood in September 2022 without any discovery of smallpox after a copper-sheathed projectile, Knut Jan Nielsen delivered another piece of wood to the Forensic Science Section – where a new examination on 21/10/2022 showed traces of smallpox.

4. From Tore Per Bakken’s own report dated 04/08/2022, it appears that the projectile, which has been given the designation L-10.8.1 (police evidence code, editor’s note) was neither found in Kripos’s premises, Romerike police district’s premises or anywhere else police premises. Here, Tore Per Bakken writes that he found L-10.8.1 in his own private garage after driving and storing the wood found at Vestengbrua there.

5. It is clear that Tore Per Bakken has had physical access to the forensic evidence in the Orderud case after he retired from Kripos.

«Absurd»

The report is now with the Bureau of Police Affairs, which has not yet questioned Tore Per Bakken.

– Before Dagbladet called and told me that I had been reported, I knew nothing about any report, says Tore Per Bakken.

Bakken has nothing against Dagbladet mentioning the report, and that it is he who is now being accused of having cheated with the evidence.

He believes the review is absurd and contrived.

– Strong evidence

– What I presented in court is the truth. When the piece of wood was split, we found a projectile, after we had had the piece of wood examined in an X-ray machine, says Bakken to Dagbladet.

– The claims from Per Orderud are complete fabrications.

– Is it true that it is claimed in the report that the evidence in the triple murder case was kept in your garage?

– After we had X-rayed the piece of wood, we took it to my garage. There the piece of wood was split. The piece of wood was then stored for a night in my locked garage, before it was transported back to Kripos, says Bakken.

The now-retired forensic scientist says it is sad that such accusations are coming.

– Technically speaking, the evidence in the Orderud case is very strong, says Bakken, who is reacting to the fact that former Kripos deputy head Knut Holen now believes the Orderud case is a legal scandal.

– It is shocking, he says.