Killing of a Young Woman Grips Iceland
Iceland’s crime rates aren’t typically plagued with carnage—an average of two people are murdered per year—which why the case of Birna Brjansdottir, a 20-year-old sales associate who disappeared after a night out in Reykjavik in early January and whose body was recently found on a beach south of the city, has thrown the country into a tailspin. There have been no arrests so far, though two sailors from Greenland (a country with similarly low crime statistics) have been questioned, so come for the still-unfolding murder mystery and stay for the Viking SWAT Team, the special ops group that features prominently in the investigation.
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The New York Times
Published: Jan 23, 2017
Length: 4 minutes (1,200 words)