Interrogations-and-Confessions-Handbook

614 A Psychology of Interrogations and Confessions
The second important development is that the private detective in the case,
Mr Harald Olsen, has discovered serious flaws in the original criminal investigation,
where important evidence was not analysed or followed up and other
good suspects were not properly investigated. This new evidence includes forensic
evidence found at the crime scene, and a man who is now known to have been
in the vicinity of the crime scene at the material time and shortly afterwards
was seen covered in blood and very distraught. He subsequently committed
suicide. The Norwegian police have not followed up these new lines of enquiry.
However, on 6 February 2002, the Attorney General in Norway ordered an investigation
into the new forensic evidence in the case. A crime scene DNA
specimen was sent to Austria for analysis. At the beginning of September 2002
the results were announced. None of the DNA material matched Mr. A and
a new murder enquiry is to commence. Hopefully the real murderer will be
apprehended before long.