[magicalhippo]

> but for what purpose

It was a quite special case. Two young girls, in a very popular hiking area on the outskirts of one of the larger cities here in Norway. Don't think there had been such a case in "modern times" here. As such, there was a massive pressure to find and convict the perpetrators.

And, since there weren't many such cases here in Norway, the police was quite inexperienced in handling them well it seems. Nice that we don't have more of this happening, but sad that it leads to such poor investigation, handling of evidence and interrogations etc.

It feels like a trope saying the police just wanted to convict someone, but I really feel like that was the case here and in other high-profile cases in the same era.

That said, I also do think the public and media had a role. Without the massive public pressure in such cases to find and convict the perpetrators yesterday, perhaps the police had made other choices...