SØRUMSAND (Dagbladet): Per and Veronica Orderud will not receive any clarification this year, but the pile of papers on the case is growing more and more on the desk of the Readmission Commission. During the inspection of Orderud’s farm in late September, new details emerged from the work of private investigator Tore Sandberg.
Now he and Morten Strandskogen, who collaborated on the shooting, question the police investigation into what happened when Anne Orderud Paust was killed in the kitchen of the kår house in 1999.
– It’s pure adventure, Sandberg tells Dagbladet.
Secret meeting at the Orderud farm
– Absolutely crazy
The following explanation was presented in court: the bullet that killed Anne Orderud Paust was only found when the autopsy took place. Then it rolled out of her clothes. The theory was that he had lodged between her body and her morning dress after passing through the 47-year-old’s body.
Private investigator Sandberg believes that the explanation cannot in any way correspond to reality. In short, because the traces at the scene, respectively on Paust and on the kitchen floor, indicate that two shots were fired, but only one bullet was found, according to the police.
– That explanation is absolutely insane. The bullet was found at the Institute of Forensic Medicine during the autopsy, lying in a dressing gown. It has an entrance opening in the dressing gown in the back, but there is no damage to the dressing gown in the front. So the bullet must have passed through the robe, hit Anne in the back, get out of her body without damaging the robe, go around the room, hit the floor, and then go back into the robe. In my world it’s simply not possible, says Sandberg.
It refers, among other things, to the explanation of former Kripos investigator Tore Per Bakken about the results in the kitchen. Dagbladet has been in contact with Bakken, who does not wish to comment on the matter.
– This is a matter for the Commission for the resumption of criminal proceedings and I will not say anything as long as they work on the case, says Bakken.
Sandberg, for his part, believes that what emerged in the work to reopen the case triggers several new questions.
– Where’s the .38 bullet that damaged the floor? It is not among the evidence in the case, the private investigator points out.
DAMAGE: In the kitchen, there was damage to the floor after a shot. The bullet was never found, according to Sandberg. Photo: The police
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Could not find the bullet
He also points out that neither of the two murder weapons used during the triple murder at Orderud’s farm was ever found by the police, despite a series of searches. On the other hand, the fact that Lars Grønnerød was supposed to shoot in several places, including the Vestengbrua in Ski, was used as important evidence.
– It was said in court that a .38 bullet was found in a tree root found in Vestengbrua at one of these locations, and that it came from the same weapon used in the kår’s quarters. Eventually I gained access to the root of the tree and wanted to see the traces of the bullet. Rota has been thoroughly researched, but there are no traces of a bullet there. And this is one of the most important pieces of evidence of the whole case, Sandberg says, and it continues:
– The question is what did Tore-Per Bakken and Kripos do with one of the most important pieces of evidence in the Orderud case, the alleged bullet in the root of the tree. It requires a response and we have not received it. It’s one of the pieces of evidence used to allegedly link Per and Veronica to the case, because Grønnerød claims he handed them weapons.
TOM: After repeated attempts, Tore Sandberg finally got hold of the root of the tree which was used as evidence in the Orderud case. The surprise was great as it contained no bullets. Photo: Tore Sandberg
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– A completely normal piece of wood
Private investigator Sandberg has no doubt that two .38 caliber rounds must have been fired in the kitchen of the kår house. Where did the last bullet go and why there was no bullet in the root of the tree that was presented as evidence, are two of the questions he put to the committee that is now looking into the case.
He himself does not currently wish to publicly speculate where he has gone. However, he believes it is obvious that the discovery undermines the verdict.
– This doesn’t count as evidence in a triple homicide case. The evidence and accusation on the bullet, which is therefore not in the root of the tree, was used as the basis for the same weapon used in the kår house after it was delivered to Per Orderud by Lars Grønnerød. What the court actually saw is a perfectly normal piece of wood, Sandberg says.
