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Therese Johannessen
Therese Johannessen (1979–?) was a Norwegian girl who disappeared at age nine on 3 July 1988 from outside her residence in Fjell, Drammen. She has not been found, despite many search operations and police investigations. In Norway, the disappearance of Therese Johannessen is sometimes called the Therese case (''Therese-saken''). The Therese case received tremendous media attention in Norway. It remains one of the most famous unsolved criminal mysteries in the country. The case has also been linked to other similar disappearance cases, including the 1981 disappearance of Marianne Knutsen from Risør. In 1998, Swedish man Thomas Quick was convicted in the case after confessing to kidnapping and killing the nine-year-old. Quick later retracted his confession, and the Swedish Prosecution Authority overturned the sentence in March 2011. The case has been re-investigated many times, most recently in 2013. In July 2013, 25 years after the disappearance, the case was no longer being c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fjell
Fjell is a former municipality in the old Hordaland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Midhordland. The municipality consisted of several islands west of the city of Bergen, the major ones being Litlesotra, the northern part of Store Sotra, Bildøy, Bjorøy, Misje, and Turøy. The administrative centre of Fjell is the village of Straume. Some of the villages in Fjell included Ågotnes, Fjell, Foldnes, Knappskog, Knarrevik, Kolltveit, Landro, and Sekkingstad. On 1 January 2020, the municipality became part of Øygarden Municipality in Vestland county. Due to the opening of the Sotra Bridge to the mainland in 1971 and its proximity to the city of Bergen, the population has grown from less than 7,000 to over 25,000 as of 2017. The result is major traffic jams over the bridge every day. The highway that leads to Bergen has reduced the traveling time to only fifteen minutes from the municipal centre at Straume on Litlesotra to the center of Berg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |