"In November of 1970, hikers came across the charred, battered body of a woman in Norway's Isdalen Valley. The body was surrounded by sleeping pills (many which had been ingested) and bottles of gas. Her fingerprints were sanded off. She was later linked to a pair of suitcases found in a train station in Bergen; police found all labels in her clothes and had been removed. They also found 500 German marks, a prescription bottle for lotion (with the doctor's name and date torn off), and a diary with coded entries. Her autopsy indicated dental work performed in Latin America. It was eventually discovered that the woman had traveled throughout Europe using different fake names. There were other clues; witnesses reported her in different wigs, changing hotels frequently, and speaking multiple languages.
Information on the case is scant and hard to come by; a witness came forward three decades later, claiming to have seen the woman in the forest followed by two men in black coats, saying the police told him to keep quiet when he initially reported what he had seen. It's generally assumed that the Isdal woman must have been some sort of spy; 1970 would have been a ripe year for undercover activities in the Cold War. Despite one of the most massive investigations in Norway history, the woman's identity will likely forever remain a mystery. Curiously-and very creepily-this tale bears a striking resemblance to the Tamen Shud case in 1948 which also involved an unknown victim with tags removed from his clothes, a coded diary, and a suitcase turning up in a train station abandoned. That case is also still unsolved."
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