The murdered Vietnamese girl’s pregnancy

The murdered Vietnamese girl’s pregnancy is a crucial, belatedly clarified part of an Oslo murder investigation. The girl was an unidentified teenager, possibly trafficked into Norway from Vietnam; when she died, her four-month-old fetus died with her. The case connects her otherwise undocumented life to the criminal networks that exploit vulnerable people and to the police and business corruption surrounding the Twin.

The Unidentified Victim

The girl was found dead in a backyard in central Oslo. Her death had been made to appear like an accidental overdose. She was estimated to be fifteen or sixteen, carried no papers, and could not be identified or traced to a place of origin. Investigators considered that she might have arrived from Vietnam in a shipping container, but this remained a possibility rather than an established fact.

The pregnancy was one of the few facts the investigation established about her. The fetus was four months old, and later information confirmed that it died because its mother died. The case therefore concerns not an identified family or a known father, but two lives recorded in the system without names: the mother as unidentified and the fetus as a death associated with her case.

The Case Reopened

Simon Kefas brings the old case into a new inquiry after learning that Kalle Farrisen had once been suspected of killing the girl. He shows Fredrik Ansgar a photograph and recalls that the victim may have been Vietnamese and may have been trafficked. Fredrik remembers that someone eventually confessed, unexpectedly and late in the investigation, but Simon’s questions show that the confession did not settle the wider connections he is pursuing.

A later examination identifies the pregnancy as a four-month-old fetus, not an abortion attributed to Agnete Iversen. Simon and Kari Adel are told that the mother died, or was killed, by an overdose in central Oslo and that the records list her only as unidentified. The account confirms the link between the deaths: the fetus died because its mother died. Asked about the father, the investigator gives an evidentiary lead, the red toothbrush, rather than a personal identity. The information redirects Simon’s inquiry toward the network of relationships and dealings around the case.

Trafficking and Criminal Connections

Simon explicitly treats the possibility of trafficking as central to understanding how the girl came to be in Norway. Elsewhere, he confronts Fidel Lae with the question of whether it should be punished when dogs are used against a girl trying to escape enslavement. The exchange places the victim’s suspected trafficking within the novel’s wider account of organized exploitation, although the available evidence does not establish who trafficked this particular girl or how she reached Oslo.

The investigation also reaches beyond Farrisen. Simon tells Iver Iversen that Iversen Property did business with the Twin, laundering money from drugs and trafficking in return for fictitious tax losses amounting to hundreds of millions of kroner. Iver denies knowing the Twin, but Simon says he has evidence that they worked together. The business connection does not itself establish who fathered the fetus or who killed the girl; it reveals the broader criminal system within which Simon is re-examining her case.

A Crime Embedded in the Mole Network

Simon’s explanation of the old rumors supplies another part of that system. For years, people suspected that a police mole leaked information to the person running much of Oslo’s drug and sex-trafficking activity, but no evidence had publicly proved that either the mole or the criminal figure existed. Simon identifies that figure as the Twin. The suspicion becomes more intelligible when Ab Lofthus’s diary reveals that the Twin was in fact two people: corrupt police officers who betrayed the force and protected criminal activity, including trafficking and murder.

The diary describes the pair’s communications and their effort to maintain their position inside the police, while Simon’s investigation connects the Twin to trafficking money and business arrangements. Together, these revelations make the unidentified girl’s pregnancy more than an isolated detail in an old suspected overdose. It becomes one thread in a network where trafficking, police information, concealed identities, and apparent confessions complicate the search for responsibility. The evidence establishes the girl’s pregnancy and the fetus’s death, but leaves her identity, the father’s identity, and the full circumstances of her death unresolved.