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Nordic Noir Goes True Crime on Netflix... (The Lørenskog Disappearance REVIEW)

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Does anything have the power to capture the attention quite so much as a true, unsolved crime?  Especially when it involves a missing person… someone whom no one would ever expect to vanish into thin air, one day ?  The sudden absence of such a person is the object of  The Lørenskog Disappearance , on Netflix . __________ A true-to-life case, The Lørenskog Disappearance tells the story of Anne-Elisabeth Hagen—the septuagenarian wife of a Norwegian billionaire, and mother to their middle-aged children—who disappeared on the last day of October, 2018. She was reported missing by her husband Tom, who told police he'd returned home from work, after failing to reach her by phone, only to find an empty house… with signs of a struggle (some blood, a lone shoe, etc.) the only real indication that something untoward must have happened. Eventually, a ransom demand (of sorts) was made: X-amount of money to be transferred online via Bitcoin, after which Anne-Elisabeth might be returned.