The Suspicious Case of the Reykjavik Confessions
Two murders. Six confessions. But is any of it real?
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Ily boys
Will you guys have An Unsolved Ep on the MOB
BuzzFeed Unsolved Network how can you not love Shane and Ryan
what made you decide to cover this case?
suspect: h- icelandic police: solitary confinement
suspect: *performs mitosis in their body cells* police: gtfo
LMAO true🤣🤣🤣
Do you mean solitary? 😅
Solidarity confinement.. we all go together!! 😂
lmaooo "solidarity" 😂
why is nobody talking about “i’m gonna turn iceland into greenland, baby”
No comments Really?
c r i i s p y y putting this on a shirt
Y’all remember that bit in ‘history of the entire world’ where he goes something like “they found a land of green. And a land of ice. And they named them accordingly. SIKE”
They are both very different places.
Kevin Smith I think that joke went over your head
Torture doesn't work. They'll tell you anything to make the pain stop.
hi yes i am the hammersmith ghost
yep :( this case is deeply upsetting, teenagers that were most likely innocent having their lives destroyed because they committed petty crimes and were tortured
Do... do you speak from experience?🤨
@@lolarose8973 they were 20 and over, they were no teenagers, tf you on about ?
It works in certain circumstances.
7:59 Ryan saying "you put me in a room for three straight days, I'm starting to already question my sense of reality" hits different now lmao
This is nothing Compared to solitary confinement. Not even close. At least you have your family members close, things to do. Internet, books. Confinement you are bound within 5*5 feet area, with no freedom and nowhere to go.
3 days is nothing.
@@ordenax dude it was a joke lol
I’m currently in hotel quarantine in Sydney, 13 days alone but at least I have a phone and tv. I can see how it might get.
@@baileyspeltbeefy1768 so? It was a bad joke.
When I heard the opening, I was expecting, "this group of people apparently had a mass hallucination and thought they killed someone," not, "these people were tortured by law officials until they confessed to something they didn't do."
Dread Pirate Robin SAME its so scary this is trueeee scary
acab xx
@@laurenbeddoes3478 This has nothing to do with acab. These police officers were simply unexperienced when it came to hard crime
@@laurenbeddoes3478 completely different country with a completely different past with completely different people so no that's an illogical conclusion
and that's on acab
Ryan: pronounces several hard to pronounce Icelandic names effortlessly Also Ryan: *FEBHIAIRY*
He didn't pronounce them correctly, but they were REALLY good for someone I presume doesn't have any/much knowledge of Icelandic pronunciation.
Lord Farquaad nice name
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@Leona Henderson you restored my faith in humanity
In which video did he say febhiaery
This one irritates me so much. They just assume they're all guilty. And if they won't admit even if they literally didn't do it they're just tortured. They'd rather get a conviction than actually have the truth be told.
Yes plus he was thief who was going to be a father not a psychopath so perfect crime for him would have been something like a big heist or something
Also, there was no proof that anyone ever murdered anyone. Just two missing individuals.
They didnt assume that. They threw a hail mary and hoped for information of which they had the faintest of. So they kept pushing that. Thats not assuming their guilt. They just wanted any lead possible and milked out one until it was dry
@@Solonneysa but if you have someone who gives you a hint that you knew something about their disappearance, you milk it. Just not in the way that these guys did it
actually 3 weeks ago some sort of justice was served since one of the people that was accused was paid 3 million by the icelandic government
1:24 - “They didn’t even have government bodies tasked with finding missing people” 17:54 - “While crime was very uncommon in Iceland, disappearances were not” There is something very wrong with this picture
Ikr I came here to look for anyone else who noticed that, like if so many people just disappeared, why not make a special division or even a special protocol for dealing with missing people?? It makes sense to have that, like there's a need for these things and they just... don't have them?? Something's definitely very wrong with this picture
Iceland is notorious for having a rough and rugged landscape. When I lived there you would hear of tourists dying every week and the reaction was a resounding 'meh'. More than often, and as awful as it sounds, people succumb to the elements quite easily as it's unwelcoming. That includes freezing to death or falling off a cliff; in one horrible case, a guy jumped into a hot spring thinking he could go for a bath but didn't realize how hot the spring would be. So it's not uncommon for people to go missing, some people even retreat back to their remote villages that still do not have internet or any forms of communication. The island is remote and treacherous. People go missing all time sadly.
@@YinsDarkNess shouldnt they atleast try and find the cause of the death/disappearance no matter how common? who knows there might be some ill person killing their victims and ppl just labelling it them as missing😭
Not really, iceland is very rough so it's not too hard to imagine that people would disappear for non crime related reasons
imagine you killed a guy in Iceland and you find out via the news that 6 other people admitted to killing him even though you know damn well who did it
max baumgarten guy probably thinks hes god
Is that a confession?
what are you? a cop?
@@maxbaumgarten405 Can you tell me your name and address, please?
@@maofria1452 we got a runner
No one: Shane: WhEn I wAs iN iCeLaNd..
TRUEE
Lmao I was about to make that joke
@@Oliver-ub4gc beat you to it lol
Lol 😂😂😂
No one: Shane: when I was in Iceland
As an Icelander, I'm pretty impressed by Ryan's pronunciations on some of the names. how he sad "Geirfinnur" was pretty good, his "Sævar" was good, but his "Keflavík" was spot on, good for him. But the way he pronounced "Hafnafjörður" just killed me
Same
you really thought anybody can just pronounce that huh?
@@yeon1573 there is nothing negative in that comment ??
@@nuages8915 literally when did i said something that implies the original comment is negative? i am saying that because the last sentence kind of indicates that she or he really expect people are able to pronounce the word (too lazy to even type that word) but yeah i don't mean anything from my previous comment
@@yeon1573 I'm pretty sure they meant it as it was so funny it killed them..
Ryan: talking about murders in Iceland Shane: Iceland was heaven
I mean... demon!Shane would definitely think that places with weird murders was heaven...
This is the most psychologically horrific episode of this show
Nah man I have to give that title to Bobby Dunbar, but that’s just my opinion hahaha
I'd definitely put Mr. Cruel up there with psychologically horrifying but they haven't covered that case yet
This is just one major human rights violation.
Priyanka Yadav dude this is truly horrific
Mind control experiment I bet
Majority of the video I was like "Okay, but... What about the child?"
ME TOO!!
Me too.. poor baby 😢
Right......the child??
Ukr
Can't know what is what here. Gotta throw it into solitary confinement to see what truth is revealed that way.
her being separated from her NEWBORN for two years is so heartbreaking that i can’t bear to think about it. i can handle gruesome murders and torture and all that just fine, but for some reason, this one is just too upsetting.
Really tragic thing is, Erla is STILL fighting it, in 2021, and with the extreme evidence of mistreatment, I just can't understand why it's still going on. She's also a pariah in iceland now, considered a horrible woman who caused innocent men to go to jail.
Poor Erla. They took advantaged of a mother.
The answer lays in your last sentence.
@@SirZeckIt’s not her fault, and you’re absolutely insane if that’s what you’re implying. The officers who committed these torturous acts should be hung.
@@wolfiemuseit's hanged. Hung is when you refer to someone's punishment size, which given these are Icelanders is probably pretty big
Tragic!
plot twist: ryan and shane are both immortal beings that commited all these murders and are now investigating them and presenting false theories so they are never caught
oh wow
Wow that’d be a shock, quickly it’s a new theory! Someone mention it next video
@Dylan Smith ryan and shane still commited those crimes, shane was just unavailable to film
Ooooooooh
Correct
This case is so upsetting. Up to two years in solitary?? Forcing people to confess and saying "well we must have got em!" What
the Icelandic police had literally no clue how to handle this stuff, it had never happened before, but now they always have someone from the danish authorities to look over a big case like this. and also almost all of the officers were laid off in the years folloing this. I'm from Iceland btw.
@@TheMarta1503 But why did the entire police force get fired if they were never trained to handle cases like this to begin with? That doesn't seem fair.
Erin Lee because they were TORTURING and THREATENING people...
@@erinlee5936 they were just put into other government jobs. but the young guys who worked the case but were not in charge, if I remember correctly were sent to school were danish academy teachers were teaching. at least it was danish teachers who made the course that people have to take now at the academy.
@@erinlee5936 I don't think that you have to be trained to exercise common sense,2 years in solitary,threatening to drown someone...you know that just ain't right
Now: Right you can only hold people 96 hours for interrogation Iceland Police in 1970s: Solitary confinement for you! Solitary confinement for you! You all get solitary confinement!
They are something like the Oprah of the policing world.
It was still being used heavily as recent as 2017, asking with instances of psychological and physical torture: www.icelandreview.com/news/time-review-rules-solitary-confinement/ I couldn't find anything from the last year or two. Had this finally been resolved? Even if it has, that's disgusting that it took this long!
Is this a over simplified reference?
"I've already come" "I'll come" Me: (wheeze) *no i am not mature*
Iceland? Wild Confinement? Solitary Hotel? Trivago Watcher? Hailed.
Wig? Snatched
Lalorna? Wailed.
Ryan? Wheezed.
Shane? doesn't believe it
Erla? Bolladottir.
Take a shot every time the solitary confinement door shuts
That would be a awrsome drinking game
I feel this is an attempt on my life
*drunk cookie monster falling on dishwasher*
I was just about to write this comment😂
help im seeing pink fairies
Some guy: "Dear Icelandic police, I saw a weakened man being hauled into a boat, and he said 'remember me'. Seemed a little sus." Police: "You're right, thanks for the tip. Now get in this room for 700 days so you can tell us more!"
I went to Reykjavik last year and its true that the people are absolutely the kindest I've ever met. Me and my sister lost our phones and when we went to the police station they were very unprofessional. Writing down our personal information on scrumpled up paper. It was crazy how incompetent they were
I really just imagine a detective pulling out a clay head from his suit case and going ‘have you seen this man?’ and then just walking off.
They carry it around like some demented key chain lmao - " Excuse me ma'am " * jingling * " Have you seen this man "
@@milesdravo3679 like some demented keychain i-
@@milesdravo3679 lmfaooo crafty
this reminded me of when that one guy made a mask of the boy in the box to show people if they knew the boy.
YO WILBUR PFP POG!!!!! THERES SO MANY DSMP PFPS IN THIS COMMENT SECTION I LOVE IT HERE /pos
Batman: "TO THE BATMOBILE!" Dr . Phil: "TO THE RANCH!" Iceland police: "TO THE SOLITARY CONFINEMENT!"
Beauty
I read that in the tune of “to the window to the wall”
Mermaid Man: to the invisible boat mobile
lol so true
Honestly if I was held in solitary confinement for a week and asked a bunch of questions for a couple hours straight, I would confess to planning the assassination of JFK. What those police did was awful 👀
Ik, I would be so terrified. I'd say yes to anything, just to go home.
“ *Eventually* they confessed to the murder” sounds like it took a couple hours of questioning, not locking them up in solitary confinement and being psychologically tortured for countless days 😅
Shane's dressed like an offbrand 1920's history professor and honestly??? I'm living for it
pine 351apple he’s so iconic
Offf brand 1920s history profgerssor and lam liveing for it
1920s
Ryan: Says Febiary Also Ryan: Says ceiszhydhparlp and pronounces it perfectly
your profile name kekskskk
@@juno_mournstar so?
Weeeelll, hate to be a buzzkill but though most of the pronunciations in this video were very good for a non-native speaker occasional ones were really not that good. Especially Hafnarfjördur, that one was... interesting. So good on Ryan for doing his best, I know our language is tricky. Good but not perfect
Melly Cat Thanks for playing along!
@aaliyah I didn't mean to be rude... sorry if it came across that way. I was only commenting on what I understood his original comment to be about, I think I may have been misunderstanding this whole thing. I definitely didn't mean to be disrespectful to people with non-english names, I myself am not from an English speaking country, but from Iceland. I was just commenting on Ryans pronunciations as a native speaker of the Icelandic language. I'm sorry about any inconvenience I've caused by not understanding others intentions.
Ryan's perfect pronunciation of foreign words and names deserves more recognition and respect. He clearly puts 110% effort into his case files.
My theory about Gudmundur is that he passed out drunk in the woods and froze to death.
exactly its common up in cold areas in Canada usually on reserves
"About once a year we will do a murder" -Midsommar (2019)
I'm glad someone brought this up because I thought the exact thing 😂😂
😭
That was such a good movie omg
@@kittygoesmeow4 Just what I was thinking too! Midsommar is based in fact!
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“Gotta Turn Icleand Into Greenland, Baby.” OMFG i’m dying ily Shane
That's my favourite part cuz I'm from Greenland😂😂
Carmen Cabeza HAHAH i’m the one thousandth like, i keep liking and unliking bc it’s cool watching it go from 999 to 1k haha ur awesome
LOL same I’m from iceland
The single greatest line of this episode in particular but is on par with "Goatman, I'm dancing on your bridge, it's my bridge now!"
It’s funny I’m Icelandic
I just want to thank Unsolved for making this video because I used this video for an English presentation about psychology in conspiracy theories (and the JFK one too because my friend used it as well). I also did my own research, mostly about the psychology of solitary confinement and the whole case is just upsetting, even to this day. My teacher and peers were so shocked on how horrible the suspects were treated, whether they were suspects or not (I believe that they were not). I love your guys' content so much, just want to put it out that you guys inspired a future wannabe detective and psychologist. Also, thanks for carrying Buzzfeed :) Keep it up, looking forward to more videos on True Crime and Supernatural
“I’ve already come” “I’ll come” **giggles like a immature cartoon character**
“They began throwing people in solitary confinement when they needed a confession” Man this is why you need a proper investigative unit lmao
Thankfully there is one now because this case is soooooo controversial
Well, maybe because there’s only minimal cases of crime happening in Iceland that’s why the investigative unit is not that much organized.
Ruery Arts I’m from one of the worst cities in America so I’m only TOO aware of what’s happening, believe me I get it
Ruery Arts why did u just reply literally the same exact thing to another comment GDJFJSHDJS what kind of mission are u on
anbie lmao I just saw that, Jesus Christ they want us to KNOW America is fucked
Police : *releases Erla* Police : you know this guy...? Erla : Yeah.. Police : *Uno reverse card*
Maybe
@@UNSOLVABLE don't self promote your products
@@No-hx7pi it's not hurting you at all. They can promote their stuff.
Oh so true
Shane: Icelandic people are so nice and crime is so low Icelandic police: *has four or more people in solitary and is torturing them to get confessions*
The interrogation of Erla (put in solitary confinement for long periods of time) was cruel and unusual. She was pregnant, and showed signs of obvious gaslighting by cops. Smdh, you could put my cat in solitary confinement and he'd tell you who blew up the Beirut port, it doesn't make it true.
Thrown into solitary confinement and forced to sign a confession to a crime you didn't commit? All hail The Watcher.
god lmao
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T H E G R E A T E R G O O D
anybody: *EXISTS* icelandic police: *SOLITaRY CONFINEMENT for YOU* watcher: *all me baby*
James Gao TO THE RANCH
ALL HAIL THE WATCHER!!
The Axeman and razerboy are coming to join the party
not the crossover we wanted, but it’s the crossover we needed
Hawaii has a similar problem, tons of missing/disappearing persons that probably are murders. Very easy to dispose of bodies on the big island, toss em in a lava tube and they'll never be found. Anyplace with a low murder rate and high missing persons rate should be considered as having a high murder rate when visiting.
That was actually a pretty accurate video. I'm impressed. - Also interesting fact, after they had confessed to the murders of Guðmundur and Geirfinnur, the police also ''questioned'' them about at least two other disappearances. I'm guessing that the police didn't try those as hard as the cases of Guðmundur and Geirfinnur. - Another aspect of this story that is worth mentioning is that in the years before they were arrested, there had been an uptick in murders in Iceland and unsolved disappearances were getting more and more common. There was immense pressure from the public and the government on the police to get results. Any results.
Nobody: Icelandic Police: SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
Nobody: icelandic Police: MENTAL ABUSE!
😂
LOL literally about to type the same damn thing
LMFAO
iceland police: "what year is it?" suspect: "its 20-" iceland police: "into solitary confinement you go."
People's feelings are still raw to this day. I think we, as a nation, will never forget how people were treated. And the only possible solution to the case would be if someone would finally speak up about what happened, someone with actual knowledge. But I won't be holding my breath 💔
Netflix has a great documentary about this : Out of thin air Great episode, guys!
- breathes - Iceland Police: *PUT ‘EM IN SOLITARY*
Anaya Charlotte *erla breathes*
*TAKES DEEEEEEEEEEP BREATH*
Anaya Charlotte I was thinking the same thing
Anaya Charlotte 😂😂😂😂😂💀💀💀☠️☠️☠️
Anaya Charlotte I’m naming my post punk band, Erla Breathes, thanks
When I get murdered I want it to be done so well when it's featured only one theory is presented and it's about aliens.
"When I get murdered" a bit definite, no? 🤔
Aoife Gildea well if he gets murdered
“When I get murdered” ALDJSHDHJAJS
@@aoifemclaughlin4373 Lmao
@@aoifemclaughlin4373 they're prepared
the further i get in this episode, the more increasingly obvious it becomes that ryan is probably at least a little jealous shane went to iceland, and shane is just finding it funny and really rubbing it in ryans face
12:45 how long each of them spent in solitary confinement. I remember Ryan mentioning that Erla was 11 weeks postpartum when she spent 3(?) days in solitary confinement. So, her baby was roughly a year old when she got out. That is horrifying.
*dozens of people go missing* The Watcher: all me baby
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this comment is underrated
So they locked them in a room alone until they suddenly remembered. Sounds like the Salem trials in a way
Sssh now we dont want anyone to know that the descendants of those horrible people who kill innocent lives are still running large and are the cause of the random disappearing people around the world.
Except that many victims from the Salem Witch trials refused to confess due fear of retribution by Satan (they were very religious) and were executed accordingly. They might have not lost their lives in this case, but sadly, they still lost their minds.
Haven't watched the video yet but the comment also sounds like 'All Summer In A Day' by Ray Bradbury(?)
Yeah, it really does. I don't have in any way an expertise on law, but I live in an area that's notorious for its crime. If you ask me, it seemed their police force just genuinely had no idea what they were doing. Solitary seemed to be the right thing because it produced something out of the nothing they were researching, and crime is so low there no one on the staff was well experienced in hard crime. I think their cruelty, at its source, was dehumanization of their suspects because they had nothing else to work off of. They took six young people and turned their minds to mush for the sake of upholding a legacy still new in society's mind. Salem witch trials indeed.
@@itried8968 very sad..
I think it's important to mention that Tryggvi spent more time in solitary than anyone else outside of Gitmo. Also, Sævar was deathly afraid of water, which made it even worse that they held his head under water until he's about to drown.
Props to Shane and Ryan for carrying buzzfeed with this channel. This is one of the only good things with buzzfeed.
Anyone: “So, my mother passed away toda-“ Shane: “When I was in Iceland..”
shane : " ...and that's why Iceland is the best, sorry what did you say?"
Am I the only one that is extremely impressed by how well Ryan pronounces these names
But yet he cant say February right
Uhm he doesn't pronounce those names well
he pronounced literally all the names wrong
Euros complain about everything, not surprised they're complaining about that also.
He didn't pronounce them correctly, but he did well for a foreigner
Thank you buzzfeed for making this documentary. As an Icelander I feel this is a national shame that should never be forgotten. These people are torture victims
Also kudos for the pronunciation of them Icelandic names. Absolutely acceptable. "Sævar" is damn near perfect
(4:21) what is my perfect crime? I break into tiffany's at midnight. do I go for the vault? no, I go for the chandelier. it's priceless. as I'm taking it down, a woman catches me. she tells me to stop. it's her father's business. she's tiffany. I say no. *[redacted]* in the morning, the cops come and I escape in one of their uniforms. I tell her to meet me in mexico, but I go to canada. I don't trust her. besides, I like the cold. thirty years later, I get a postcard. I have a son and he's the chief of police. this is where the story gets interesting. I tell tiffany to meet me in paris by the trocadero. she's been waiting for me all these years. she's never taken another lover. I don't care. I don't show up. I go to berlin. that's where I stashed the chandelier.
what.
Ahhh dwighttt
Boca it’s a scene from Dwight, the office
I was looking for this comment!!!😂
I read this in his voice 😅
no wonder nobody commits crimes in Iceland.... OVER 700 DAYS IN SOLITARY?! I'd go insane
Abby W. well yeah you literally would
Abby W. That’s 700 days without KFC or Mac Donald’s
Thats sadly my regular life
Abby W. A week in solitary is enough to do anyone in. There’s a distant uncle in my family who went to jail for contraband for two and a half years, and he told me that, by the fourth day in solitary confinement, some of the voices in his head started to manifest into delusions and nightmares, and some of the toughest guys screamed and cried themselves to sleep after two weeks.
I'd go insane after an hour hahaha, I don't like closed rooms lol
America: *finds a body, suspect has clear motive, and there’s DNA evidence* “Not guilty” Iceland: *forces people to confess to a murder that they aren’t even sure happened bc there’s no body* “YOURE ALL GUILTY”
*justice machine broke*
I'm not sure which sucks more than the other
@@sarahs3305 iceland
Actually, police forcing a confession out of an innocent person happens quite a bit here in the United States. One of the more infamous that I can think of right now was the case against Alvin Latham back in 2000. He was on a ship out at sea fishing for shrimp during a bad storm where the ship sank. There was only him and the captain on board, and when Latham was rescued he told authorities that the captain's leg had gotten tangled in ropes and he had been dragged under the water by the boat. The captain's body was later recovered after it had floated back up to the surface, and the coroner mistook injuries that had occurred AFTER the death as having been the cause of death. So police took Latham in and bullied a confession for murder out of him. It's actually pretty incredible, because they taped the entire interrogation and you can actually see them telling Latham how he had "committed" the murder and then pressuring him into agree with it. Latham had some mental retardation, so his defense attorney thought something was off with the confession. Then he watched the interrogation tape and was able to use that as evidence to get Latham acquitted.
@@roetheboat1 so because a coroner didn't do his job right an innocent man was treated cruelly and could have been sent to prison. At least he had that defense attorney.
Icelandic Police: It's 4 PM time for your Solitary Confinement Suspects: Yes Officer
I'm adopting "arrow in your anecdote quiver" into my vocabulary instantly
heres a 21 minute video on a mystery, but have 16 minutes on how bad the justice system was in iceland in the 1970’s dude i love them
lia haszard you can’t really blame Iceland because murders were so rare that they hired a German deductive to solve the case and he thought that they committed the crime
Here's a 21 minute video on a mystery but have 16 minutes on how bad the justice system was in Iceland in the 1970s
gaay
Here a 21 minute video on a mystery but have 16 minute on how bad the justice System was in Iceland in the 1970s I don't love them
@@tayloranderson7547 What exactly do you think you're accomplishing by copying her comment 😂😂
99% shane's anecdotal quotes on his travels to iceland 1% the actual case
Fan response: 50% Watcher memes
99% Shenas quotes on his travels to Iceland 1% the actual Case
For those who rewatches these on occasion, here are some updates regarding the victims. In January 2020, Priminister Katrín Jakobsdottír revealed that the Icelandic Government would provide compensation totaling 815 million Icelandic kronor (approximately 6 million euros) to those acquitted in the case or their families. and at December 2022 Erla was rewarded and aditional €210,000 and a formal apolagy from the icelandic goverment.
I've watched every single episode of the true crime series but for some reason this particular case has been very deeply etched in my mind. Not so gruesome but uncannily chilling
Coming soon: The Purge: ICELAND "Once a year, we do a MURDER!" *DUN, DUN, DUNNNN*
Huh. You could make a decent horror film out of that concept.
I’d like to think they take a public vote about who should be murdered that day and then politely stab them to death
This would be a good movie though
Read the short story “The Lottery”
Could you imagine being a serial killer in iceland? Youd have sliced and diced 30 people and in that time the police will have arrested three times that many suspects
Plot twist : Gurmunder and Gierfinnur were lovers and both (dissapeared)fled to another country and lived a happy life.
😂👌 Gierf: I've already come....❤ Gur: Oh really? You wanna come again? 😏 Gierf: I'll come. 😏❤
@@hugannoy4751 lmao 😂
hug annoy 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Pilot twist: gurmuder and gierfinur were lovers and both ( disppeared) fled to another country and lived a happy life.
They _did_ have the same last name...
Where are these peoples lawyers?????how is any of this (solitary confinement, sleep deprivation, drowning) legal? How did they get convicted with no physical evidence?? This country's justice system is a joke
Chill it was in like the 1970s or whatever. Laws have changed.
@@ripley_10mo if the usa's system can be as cruel as it is in 2021, this comment has a point
@@person-iw8qj How?
@@person-iw8qj you ever read the bill of rights? Almost everything in this case is would be unconstitutional in America, but nooo muhhh evil americaaa
@@trevorlahey2488 lol, you say that as if those rights aren’t being violated to this day
These people were tortured! How can anyone think these confessions are credible??
Why, if you’re driving home and you see your friend on the side of the road drunk and looking for a ride home in the cold why on earth would you keep driving? Every time i watch this video that’s all i can think about
He probably didn't buy his round.
Ikr
yeah ryan failed to mention that earlier he had run out on the check so. sucks to be him
How many times do you watch this video?
@@TheRepublicOfDave every evening at 11:03 with a nice cup of tea and a blanket over me with my gray tabby cat on my lap. Every evening.
hundreds of unexplained disappearances, but no missing persons task force????
That was the 70's... Stuff happened back then... Y'know?
@@maydayjanette226 i see what you mean, i guess i just thought that any nation would have that task team ya know? like it doesn't have to be a prevalent problem
@@maggiemoreland175 we don't but we take dissaperances very seriously and both police and the public as well as our search and rescue teams (most of our search and rescue are working for basically nothing if not nothing). Also we have a high rate of suicide by drowning. It's sad but it's a fact that many people just go into the sea and let the strong currents do the rest :(
@@blrrosar7617 wow i didn't know that, thanks for the info!
it's the fae
currently watching this episode after the pandemic. hearing them say "being alone for 3 days? i need to talk to people" just gave me the biggest "when was this even made??" moment
Person in Iceland: *Does anything* Icelandic police: "Whelp, into the solitary confinement you go"
No one: Iceland investigators: Throw em in solitary.
america: TAKE HER TO THE RANCH iceland: TAKE THEM TO SOLITARY
to the ranch? What does that even mean?
@@unusedaccountUCL-2S_wgD8qEO_XX if you have a troubled teen, someone will suggest you take them to Dr. Phil's ranch to be reformed.
Well the judge was actually a former Nazi from Germany, if I remember correctly...
I meant the main investigator.
1:51 “About once a year we do a murder” sounds like an exciting annual tradition.
KT Monte The Icelandic Purge
They kill KT fan once per year
Unless you're the one they're doing the murder to
Sounds killer 😂😂
The Lottery must be based on Reykjavik.
From the sometimes dry, yet at other times, outlandish humor, to the egotistical sarcasm you both marinate into the cases at hand make it an awesome show. No matter if you are a skeptic or a believer, watching and hearing your views from opposite ends of the spectrum, as well as hearing your opinionated theories truly makes it and informative and epic show. Great job and keep it up!!
I might as well add in an extra theory i heard years ago about this case. As an icelander it is hard to find anyone here who has not heard about this case. For us this is like the missing Roanoke Colony. I heard a theory that Guðmundur and Geirfinnur were killed and cemented in a basement of a house somewhere near downtown of Hafnarfjörður. not really sure where this theory came from but I have heard it a few times over the years.
Anybody: *exists* Iceland: SOliTaRy cOnfiNEmeNt foRyOu
*Ahem* All hail the Watcher
Hahahhahahaha
🤣🤣
Theory: Iceland's crime rate was supper low because everyone knew solitary confinement was waiting for them 👀😂
The death penalty is a thing but people still commit horrible crimes everyday lol
@@xXMrBatmanXx not in Iceland
@@xXMrBatmanXx the death penalty exists pretty much nowhere
Or crimes are high but police is super incompetent
@@balisandra94 lol you're naive
You get me through my work day with all the humor. Thanks guys!!
There is now a documentary on this case called “Out of Thin Air” on Netflix
I feel so bad for Erla and Saevar's child. They grew up without their mom (and possibly Dad depending on how long his sentence was) because of these police officers.
the child would've ended up worse with these criminals for parents
Sævar moved to Copenhagen to escape the scandal and ended up dying quite young after a life on the streets :( such a sad story, his life could have probably gone way different if it wasn't for this mistreatment.
@@rebekkathors Adult people, adult choices. Sad, no. Tragical, maybe. For the infant getting these parents.
@@Pekkamannen you don't think it's sad that some troubled teenagers were coerced into confessing to a murder they had nothing to do with, ruining their reputation and any hope they had of rehabilitation? then I don't understand what your definition of sad is.
@@rebekkathors I don't think it's sad that grown people make the choice to do illegal stuff. It's not sad. Maybe, in some cases it's a waste of talent, but sad no. And is there actual documents stating that they were forced to take the blame? That's an actual question from me.
didn’t ryan say he had a voice chat with a person from iceland to get the pronunciations correct? commitment.
Bit he didn’t get it right tho
And yet he can’t pronounce February
He got help from some people I know. I must admit I did not expect much but boiiii, Ryan did pretty good!!
Eva Rún Árnadóttir no it was horrible
HiIdur Lunartic Alls ekki hvad er hun ad tala um?
These are all awesome! You guys do a fantastic job. Never stop!
back again having an unsolved marathon during quarantine
Shane and Ryan backs must hurt... Carrying buzzfeed
@Jaeda Fortunato people only watch buzzfeed unsolved so they are "carrying buzzfeed on their backs" because without them the company would crash
Real original, I haven't seen this comment on the last 15 videos I've watched...
spittin fax
Im waiting for them. Its been a long time. 😂
Hahahahah LITERALLY
Ryan has issues rolling his R's but no problem with these names. Damn.
Liz Crosthwait he is not saying them right
lol if you're not icelandic how would you know if he's saying them right (spoiler, he's not)
Emma nobody said they were right.
It's called pandering
@@arlyn6310um, yes they just did by saying that he has no problem pronouncing the names. If you can pronounce something it means they're saying it right. if it's wrong he means he does have problems with pronouncing the names and that they're wrong. you can't be wrong in pronunciation and 'have no problem with the names' at the same time
what really upsets me about this is how the police were so focused on these likely innocent people. that means the people who were actually behind the two going missing were just roaming around free with no consequences. it’s upsetting! there’s so much wrong with this case and it makes me angry almost every time i watch again.
After being gone from watching these fir so many years seeing the bell jingle and the unsolved logo coming up then hearing Ryan's voice is pure nostalgia
erla: *gets put in solitary confinement* erla: damn. all hail the watcher
gillian this is an intellectual joke right here
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absolutely no one : iceland police : *eyes go completely black* SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
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@yaboiplekka I mean the no one: meme is a meme.
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This reminds me of an article I read about people who perfectly remember commiting a crime, even though they are completely innocent and the real murderer has been found
You guys are perfect for this.... Totally addicted 😉 just found you guys a couple days ago.... Keep up the good work 💪👊👍😁😉
The guy was drunk and trying to hitch a ride at 2am in the snow. People he knew didn’t even stop to help him home, so chances are he wandered off somewhere and died of exposure.
What if they did it?? 🤔🤔
Lol yeah when i heard his homies didnt scoop him while he was hitchhiking i was like wtf? Must not have good friends
"Died of exposure"... Wtf dose that even mean
user name copied lack of protection from the elements. It was snowy when he went missing so he may have succumbed to the cold and died
user name copied You must be 13.
Anybody else just picture Ryan sitting around practicing the pronunciations of all these names 😂
devan hickman me
Literally was just thinking about that 😂
I picture him highlighting the names in his readouts, then looking up the pronunciations before doing these segments in more takes than normal.
he said he talked to someone to ask about the pronunciations in the last q & a i think
I have a person very close to me who suffers from OCD. Frequently they'll be afraid that they committed a crime or did something morally wrong in the past, and, being (like all humans) unable to 100% remember what happened at every moment in their past, essentially declare themselves guilty until proven innocent. The way that the police made them misremember past events and believe they committed crimes they didn't actually commit reminds me of that.