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00:00I found out that four people had been arrested when one of Frank's female friends suddenly
00:15texted me.
00:18She said that it was horrible that this had happened, and I was at home in my apartment,
00:24and I asked her, wait, what's happened?
00:26Because I hadn't read anything yet.
00:28And then this friend texted me, well, haven't you read that they've arrested four people
00:34for Frank's murder?
00:47The police arrested four people.
00:51It turned out that the defendants knew each other.
00:54Four friends.
00:56And they were all people Frank knew.
00:58It was a very surreal experience to see and hear about their arrests.
01:16I had led myself to believe that Frank had disappeared of his own free will.
01:20So to hear that those four people were charged with his murder, it felt both unrealistic and
01:31it destroyed my heart completely.
01:34It's not something you think could happen to people you love.
01:49These four people were behind a very well-orchestrated murder plot.
01:53It shows a cold-blooded nature.
01:55I've never dealt with anything like this.
01:57They tried to kill Frank three separate times.
02:02I was like, what the hell is going on?
02:05You'd have to be really sick in the head to come up with a plan like that.
02:09It's truly insane.
02:10She slowly and carefully drew them into her web.
02:14But how did she manage to coax three other people to commit a murder?
02:18I want the truth to come out.
02:31On Monday, four people, two men and two women, were arrested at an address near Nimtoft.
02:36They are accused of killing 44-year-old Frank Dan Norgaard-Jorensson.
02:42Earlier today, the police continued the forensic investigation on a plot of land outside Nimtoft.
02:48Eastern Jutland police confirmed that the investigation is still ongoing,
02:53but would not confirm or deny whether the body of Frank has been found.
03:07After all of them had been arrested, they attended a legal hearing.
03:12They faced a judge who would decide whether or not the matters presented by the prosecution
03:18were enough to take them into custody.
03:22It was an atypical picture of a homicide case.
03:25You rarely see four defendants in the same case.
03:28It's something we might see in biker gang culture.
03:30It became clear to me that I needed to be in the courtroom that day.
03:42There I could find out who was being charged with killing my boyfriend.
03:47I arrived at the Rander's courthouse with my mother, and as I sat down, I could feel my body trembling,
04:03and my breathing became unsteady.
04:06Lawyers started coming in, and all these police started coming up.
04:21I had to look through many police officers to see who was walking between them.
04:27I saw three people I'd never seen before, and then there was my Brit.
04:36And when I saw her, it was like everything stopped.
04:43I almost couldn't believe my eyes.
04:49She didn't even notice me sitting in court.
04:53I think it was that feeling of being completely ignored
04:58that broke me and made me just yell at her and
05:02ask her why she couldn't look at me.
05:23When I found out that she had been arrested with the others,
05:35I just had such a somewhat empty feeling.
05:38It felt totally impossible that she, I mean, they,
05:45that they were capable of doing something like that.
05:48I had, I had a hard time imagining
05:51that these people, they really had it in them to, um,
05:58to do something terrible like that.
06:06When Mybert and the others were arrested,
06:08it was so surreal that you, you,
06:13you just never knew what she felt or what she was really thinking.
06:17You'd always, you would just wonder.
06:21You couldn't tell where you stood with her.
06:24Again, obviously, it all pointed in that direction
06:27throughout the whole weekend.
06:30That's where you should be looking.
06:33But still, there was so much we didn't know.
06:35It was unexpected that, that suddenly these four people were arrested.
06:41The same four people that Frank had considered
06:44his close friends for a long time.
06:47One of them was his girlfriend.
06:49The discovery of that burnt-up van led the police to dramatically upgrade their investigation.
07:11It caused them to intensify their focus on these four friends.
07:15They started tapping all of their phone calls.
07:17Monday, I was in my office.
07:19I was contacted by the head of the police investigation that was leading the case.
07:28They wanted to conduct a, uh, wiretap of some of the suspects involved.
07:35That was because of how things unfolded over the weekend,
07:39when suspicions towards these four people grew to such degree
07:43that they decided to carry out the wiretap.
07:45Surprisingly, the police quickly got some valuable intel from those wiretaps.
07:51In fact, not long after the police started listening in on all phone conversations of these four individuals,
07:58they picked up a conversation between Mybrit and her husband, Matthias,
08:02which resulted in the police opening their eyes on the case,
08:06because the conversation was specifically centered around Frank's disappearance,
08:10and there were some things that made it sound like Mybrit and Matthias knew what had happened to Frank.
08:18There was no doubt that the wiretap of the conversation between Mybrit and Matthias
08:22was absolutely crucial at the time of the investigation.
08:27Hi.
08:27Hi there.
08:29When will you be home?
08:30I'll leave within 20 minutes.
08:32It sounded like it was just a normal conversation,
08:35the kind you'd expect to hear between a married couple, casual and familiar.
08:39But when you listened closely to what they were saying to each other,
08:43that convinced the police that they knew more about Frank's disappearance
08:47and what happened than they were letting on.
08:50Someone needs a nanny.
08:53It's Jesper.
08:54He's just lying there on the couch, all depressed.
08:57Why?
08:59Jesper is sure the police are coming to get you.
09:02Just come home.
09:03Mybrit had called Matthias and told him he had to come home from work
09:07because she had someone lying on her couch who was severely depressed
09:11and needed a babysitter.
09:14On the wiretap, the police could hear that when the van was found,
09:17that somehow affected the dynamic of this group of friends.
09:22She expressed that they had been searching for news on the Internet
09:25and had found out that the police had just discovered this burnt-up van.
09:30After this information, Matthias concluded on the phone,
09:34then I'm sure the police will come for me soon.
09:36It's over for me.
09:40When Mybrit heard this, she told her husband,
09:43don't worry.
09:44If they had something, they would have already come for us a long time ago.
09:48They think he's still alive.
09:50Just come home.
09:52She eventually said that the police believed that Frank was still alive.
09:57The police took the wiretap between Mybrit and Matthias seriously
10:02and they decided it was time to make their move.
10:06That same day, the police searched two different addresses.
10:10One address was in Alingobro.
10:12The other was in Nimtoft.
10:14The police had to cordon off the two addresses
10:20and conduct a thorough search on the premises to gather evidence.
10:25On one property, investigators noticed that out in the courtyard,
10:30there was a single barrel.
10:31A fire had been lit in the barrel.
10:34There was clearly something inside that they had wanted to burn and dispose of.
10:38They used canine units to investigate the area more thoroughly.
10:44The gravel in the courtyard was also examined with the help of the dogs.
10:47There were several spots where the dogs showed interest.
10:52When they examined these clues more closely,
10:55they came to the conclusion that there was human blood present.
10:58One of the things that heightened my interest in this case
11:19was this group of people and how their lives were deeply intertwined.
11:24these internal relationships, both of them between Frank and
11:29these people who were now prime suspects in his murder case,
11:34but also the relationship that the four main suspects had between each other.
11:40It actually turned out to be two different couples.
11:43It was Maybrit, Matthias, her husband,
11:47and their friends, the couple Jesper and Mii.
11:50We're talking about two friendly couples, eating together,
11:58barbecuing together, having a good time together.
12:00But if you look closely behind that facade,
12:04there was a lot that was happening in the shadows.
12:06A lot of intrigue and blackmail in ways that
12:09possibly could have played a deeper role in Frank's case.
12:13When Maybrit and Frank finally became a couple,
12:25they let everyone know by making it official on Facebook.
12:35During this time, Frank was also making new friends through Maybrit.
12:39He started talking to Jesper quite a lot.
12:44Jesper knew Maybrit and Matthias for years.
12:46He was living with them for some time.
12:49He moved in when he was 18,
12:51and from there he stayed on and off,
12:54sometimes in the house and other times
12:56in a trailer that was parked on the property.
13:01However, now it was different because he was engaged to Mii.
13:04And they lived in a house that was not far from Maybrit and Matthias.
13:11Mii was a young woman in her early 20s.
13:15And everyone we talked to about Mii told us
13:17that she was the most vulnerable person in the whole case.
13:22She was a fragile soul.
13:23She had cut all ties with her family in her past,
13:28and Jesper was pretty much her everything.
13:31And it really seemed like she enjoyed
13:34hanging out with Jesper, Maybrit, and Matthias.
13:37They were having a good time chatting,
13:39and Frank considered Jesper a friend.
13:43He helped him build cars, they spent time together,
13:45and they had what seemed like a solid friendship.
13:47Jesper began working at the farm in Nimtoft
13:55as a stable hand in 2014.
13:58That happened after Maybrit posted a job listing
14:00on an online horse forum
14:02looking for someone to help them at the stud farm.
14:06Jesper?
14:07What?
14:08Why are you picking it up again?
14:10Because it wasn't right, okay?
14:13A lot of people who were directly involved with the stud farm
14:17described Jesper and Maybrit's time together
14:19as being somewhat tumultuous.
14:24They were very good friends,
14:25almost coming across as flirtatious.
14:28Are you sure that's a good idea?
14:32Jesper, I think you dropped something.
14:34Shut up, Maybrit!
14:36You're doing a great job.
14:42I've had enough of this.
14:44Are you doing a good job?
14:45It doesn't seem like it.
14:46No, I understand.
14:53I mean, they always had a,
14:55I would almost say, a mother-son relationship
14:58because they argued with each other
15:00like they were mother and son
15:01and also picked on each other
15:03like they were mother and son.
15:07They had a special relationship.
15:09Yes, they did.
15:10It was very much what you saw,
15:11but when you realized what was below the surface,
15:14it was a very intimate relationship.
15:16Yes, it really was.
15:18She had her ways of putting an end to any argument.
15:22Yes, that she did.
15:24That was the manipulative side she had, right?
15:29When Jesper moved in at the farm in Nimtoft,
15:32the friendly relationship between Maybrit and Jesper,
15:35who was 13 years younger,
15:36eventually grew into something more than just friendship.
15:41Several of the individuals working on the farm noticed that
15:44when Jesper and Maybrit had a fallout
15:47and stopped talking to each other from time to time,
15:50they would end up reconciling in the courtyard trailer.
15:58One time I was going over there to get a horse to go for a ride,
16:02and as I was taking the horse out to the field,
16:04I saw them standing there arguing.
16:06Or more like Jesper was sitting on his bed in the trailer.
16:09It was weird.
16:10When he lived in the trailer?
16:11Yes.
16:11Oh.
16:12Maybrit was at the door.
16:13They were arguing really intensely.
16:15When I finished riding, I walked past the trailer again,
16:18but now all the curtains were rolled down.
16:21And the door was closed.
16:23And the trailer was rocking.
16:26Matias discovered something he was never meant to know.
16:29Yes.
16:30I didn't know how much he knew then.
16:32No.
16:33Because my impression of Matias was that he was very calm and collected.
16:37It could be that he simply, you know,
16:40because of the conflict, he just thought, that's fine.
16:43I think he did everything he could to avoid conflicts with Maybrit.
16:46Yeah, I mean, it's understandable.
16:48Because she was, she was the one who held the power.
16:53Yeah.
17:05What we knew about Matias was that he was married to Maybrit
17:08and that they lived together for a few years at the estate in Nimtuft.
17:14Matias had his own thing going on, but he also pitched in at the stud farm,
17:20did repairs around the property,
17:22making sure the grounds and buildings were kept in good condition.
17:26When you talk to the people who knew Maybrit and Matias,
17:31you got the impression that they were a typical married couple whose wish was to have a child of their own and have a normal life.
17:38We also learned that they had been trying to conceive for some years.
17:42At some point, things went downhill between Maybrit and Matias,
17:48so she actually ended up moving out.
17:52You could say she was ready to start a new chapter in her life.
17:55Part of it was that they were splitting up, taking a break from each other.
17:59It was during this period of time that Maybrit met Frank through an online dating site.
18:05But there were signs that she had an agenda when it came to her relationship with Frank.
18:12Because at an earlier horse show, after she had started dating him,
18:16she told somebody close that she only decided to date Frank because she wanted a child.
18:21Frank told me early in his relationship with Maybrit that Matias couldn't have children.
18:31So I teased him a little that he was, he was just a donor.
18:36Once she got pregnant, he'd be discarded straight away again.
18:42We could see on Facebook that Maybrit, on July 15th, which was the same day that Frank was reported missing,
18:48she posted that she was pregnant and shared a couple of ultrasound images,
18:54along with some baby clothing that had an image of small baby feet with a phrase saying,
19:00see you soon.
19:03She wrote that she couldn't wait for the baby to come.
19:07However, she didn't mention in the post who the father of the baby was.
19:18If you look at this case carefully, and you talk to people about it,
19:41there was ample evidence that Maybrit had, in the past, repeatedly acted improperly when she couldn't
19:48control people, but particularly the men in her life.
19:56My name is Nikolai. I'm 29 years old, and I live out here in the area of Jersland.
20:03Well, the first time I met Maybrit was back in 2014, in December.
20:11I was looking for work, and asked a guy named Peter,
20:17who happened to have a herd of sows, where Maybrit was the daily manager.
20:24At first, there seemed to be normal relationships among the colleagues, if you can put it that way.
20:33But I was a trainee, so I was lowest in that hierarchy.
20:40The first prelude to everything, other than professional work,
20:45was this one time I had to work over the weekend, where Maybrit was also there.
20:52And we were both sitting in the break room, and one thing led to another, and then...
21:03I could tell by the situation that she wasn't playing hard to get.
21:09So, we met at her place.
21:11As I recall, they couldn't live in the house, because they were renovating the main rooms.
21:19So, she slept in a trailer on the... on the property.
21:25We had only one reason for meeting.
21:28So... sexual intercourse.
21:31And I think only about a week or so went by, and then it happened again.
21:47Then I lost interest in it.
21:48It wasn't fun any longer, if one can even call it that.
21:54And, uh, Maybrit wasn't feeling that way, and it created a disconnect.
21:58So, it went back and forth like that, then she came up with...
22:07this idea, explanation, or story that suddenly she was pregnant.
22:16So, at that point, I had no idea what she was capable of.
22:20I think Maybrit had no compassion or empathy for others at all.
22:31No, no.
22:34She had screwed a lot of people over.
22:36She did.
22:37I was often invited in, spending time watching TV with them, sharing pizzas, and just hanging out.
22:42It was a nice little community, which I thought was really great.
22:45And then, the very next day, all of these great things were just wiped out.
22:50She'd look right through you.
22:51All you had to do was go to the stables, ride that horse, and then just leave.
22:56It was clear she was deliberately playing with your emotions.
23:00You had to be careful with what you said and did at all times.
23:03Yeah, you're right.
23:04Yeah.
23:04It was a lot when you thought that you were good and close friends.
23:08I spent New Year's with her, and I had my kid out there with me.
23:13You know?
23:14I mean, hmm.
23:27Being accused of rape is one of the worst things you can be accused of.
23:36Maybrit kept saying that she was pregnant.
23:38Nikolai did not believe her and told her she needed to show him proof.
23:42Maybrit wouldn't send him that, but he was welcome to come out to the farm in Nimtoft.
23:49Since Nikolai wouldn't come out to talk directly to her about the pregnancy,
23:53the whole thing led to this messy situation in which Nikolai had to face some severe consequences at work.
24:01One morning, when Nikolai came to work, the boss was already waiting for him in the courtyard,
24:06holding a notice of dismissal because Maybrit had told the boss that Nikolai had raped her.
24:12When Maybrit accused Nikolai of raping her, it had some extreme consequences for him.
24:24Without being consulted, he was suspended from his apprenticeship at the pig farm.
24:31And he was reported to the police.
24:35Afterwards, he struggled because it was absolutely impossible for him to get a new apprenticeship
24:42because the rumors had already spread about him of what Maybrit had accused him of.
24:46She really tried to ruin my life, as a matter of fact.
25:03At one point, Nikolai received a letter from the police stating that the charges had been dropped
25:09because they did not find any evidence that would support any basis for Maybrit's accusations.
25:16There was absolutely no reason to believe that Nikolai was guilty of ever having sexually assaulted or raped Maybrit.
25:23Even though it was a terrible experience, what she put me through, I couldn't have imagined in my wildest dreams
25:34the insanity and horror of what she did to Frank afterwards.
25:41It also made me wonder if they might have wanted to kill me.
25:53After about three months, Frank's relationship with Maybrit fell apart,
26:00and Maybrit decided to move back in with Matthias. They were not divorced yet.
26:05Yeah, I found the breakup between Frank and Maybrit quite chaotic because she seemed very angry.
26:14It didn't seem like Maybrit had come to terms with the fact that Frank had broken up with her.
26:20She found it hard to accept the breakup, to accept or understand the fact that
26:27he didn't want to have a relationship with her.
26:29There was one incident in which Maybrit visited Frank. When Frank turned her down again and asked
26:36her to get out of his home and leave, Maybrit walked out the door and as she reached the steps
26:41outside his front door, she suddenly collapsed. Frank told his friends that it seemed like she deliberately
26:48fell to cause a scene. She tried to make him feel sorry for her to get his attention.
26:54He was completely certain she wasn't hurt, but at the same time, he didn't have the heart to just
27:00leave her there complaining. So he went outside and helped her back up and took her inside. And
27:06when he called me and told me about this incident, I straight up told him,
27:11listen brother, you seriously need to get away from her. This whole situation sounds, it sounds toxic.
27:18In hindsight, I started to get this inkling that something wasn't quite right with Maybrit,
27:24but I couldn't figure it out. It just seemed really strange.
27:39The day Frank went missing, several interesting things happened. Maybrit showed up at Rike's apartment,
27:56unannounced, just hours after Frank went missing. She told Rike that she was Frank's girlfriend,
28:01but that wasn't all. Maybrit also told her that she was pregnant with his child.
28:09It felt like I was going into a state of shock, honestly. And it was during that same moment that
28:20Maybrit saw an opportunity to talk about me and her relationship with Frank. And she had found out
28:29through his daughter that he was also seeing me. And the two of them had agreed to finally confront me
28:40with the fact that Frank was dating Maybrit and they were going to have a child.
28:47I really couldn't speak or fully understand what she was saying to me in those first few minutes.
29:00Over the next few days and over the weekend, I was feeling a need to reach out to Maybrit and ask more
29:09questions because the things that Maybrit had told me were starting to come out. After the shock subsided and
29:18I was getting angrier, I also had more questions for Maybrit. Over the weekend, I wrote a message to Maybrit.
29:28Maybrit and I asked her why she stayed with Frank after he had been abusive to her and
29:38she had so many negative things to say about him. Why hadn't she left him?
29:50And she said that when she got pregnant, she had an obligation to stay in the relationship with Frank.
29:58She said she missed her ex-husband and that she wished he was the father of Frank's child.
30:18At one point, I texted Maybrit and asked her if I could call her, if she had five minutes.
30:24I wanted to ask her some things over the phone.
30:38She wrote that she was on her way to a hotel to stay with her husband
30:42and that they were going to give it another shot together.
30:44I remember thinking it was strange that she would go stay at a hotel in the midst of all this chaos with the disappearance of Frank.
30:59The father of her child was missing and she thought that this would be a good time
31:05time to go with her husband to a hotel.
31:16In the morning, right after Frank went missing, Maybrit called up Jespa and invited both him and
31:22Mii to come and stay over at the Comwell Hotel. She wanted to celebrate her 39th birthday.
31:28She invited Jespa and Mii to this upscale hotel. Jespa and Mii could not afford that type of hotel,
31:36so Maybrit and Matias offered to pay.
31:38What? Were you out for a walk with my purse?
31:49Yeah, why not?
31:59You almost wondered if they were indeed celebrating Maybrit's birthday or whether they were actually
32:06celebrating the successful killing of Frank.
32:11No, Matias! Matias!
32:15Nope!
32:18That'll work out much.
32:19No.
32:20There you go.
32:22Let's go.
32:23That table over there looks good.
32:25That works.
32:25At the Comwell Hotel, we could see that these four friends were celebrating Maybrit's birthday.
32:40They were being very silly and seemed to be in a joyous mood.
32:44I need to hit the gym.
32:45As she had done many times before,
32:48Maybrit recorded plenty of videos of what they were doing that day.
32:53And she shared them on social media.
32:55No.
32:55They say hello to you, you hag.
32:57Fuck you.
32:58Yeah.
32:58It's your turn, Matias.
33:00Shit.
33:01I only have two.
33:05So now...
33:05Now put a green one down.
33:07It's because...
33:07Oh, dear.
33:08You bastard.
33:10What are you doing?
33:11Try using your brain, okay?
33:12When you watch these videos, the four people are fooling around and having fun.
33:19They seem intoxicated.
33:21The only one you don't see in the videos is Maybrit because she was filming.
33:25But you can hear her because she's laughing a lot.
33:28Maybe you should stick them up your nostrils.
33:35Then you just...
33:37No!
33:43Yuck, that's disgusting.
33:45You are so gross.
33:46You are so gross.
33:47You are so naked.
33:49Matias!
33:56Yuck, that is so gross.
33:58You hit Blob.
34:01That was gross.
34:03At some point in the conversation, you could hear them
34:07talking about the baby she had in her belly at that point.
34:09We knew that they called the baby in Maybrit's belly Blob and said other things during this
34:18hysterical sit-down conversation around the table.
34:21They specifically mentioned the Blob in her belly.
34:24At one point, she told Matias not to touch Blob.
34:28Leave my Blob alone.
34:31That's a new way of shuffling cards.
34:32Now my tummy hurts.
34:34It could be anything.
34:36The mood seemed very, very uplifted.
34:39And at first glance, the video didn't seem like the four people we were watching
34:45had just killed a man.
34:47No.
35:07So when we had a preliminary hearing, it was the prosecutors, in this case my role, to convince the judge presiding over the case that the evidence was strong enough to be used against the people being charged, and that there were reasons enough to possibly send them to prison.
35:37During the hearing, the accused were given the choice to make a statement if they wished, or to remain silent if they preferred. Out of the four who stood accused, only me each chose to make a statement.
35:49I didn't think she could handle the pressure of being put in that intense situation. Pretty early on we were able to get me to give us the information that she had been told regarding Frank's death.
36:07She said that Frank had been killed, and that she did not witness the murder.
36:21She had heard from Jesper that Frank had in fact been killed. He had been strangled. We still didn't have a body, but it was absolutely crucial that one of the four people told us exactly what had happened, or what she had heard had happened.
36:37They were all charged with first-degree murder, and the abuse of a corpse. The charge of abuse of a corpse was due to the fact that the police didn't have a body. They hadn't found Frank.
36:57When I heard the charges being read out loud, I...
37:09It was as if I stopped breathing.
37:15I could feel tears coming on, and I wanted to lose it in the courtroom.
37:24At the same time, I didn't want to cry in front of my Brit.
37:32So it wasn't until there was a break, and we were taken outside of the courtroom, that I finally broke down and cried.
37:45It was unbelievable how fast it went from being a missing person case to a homicide investigation.
37:52Obviously, you know, all weekend long we hoped he was coming back home, but deep down we knew that he wasn't.
38:04It was shocking to have it confirmed. It had gone from a missing person to a homicide case.
38:09That's what we were dealing with. He didn't just walk away. He didn't decide on his own accord to go away. Somebody had harmed him.
38:16After a few hours, the preliminary hearing was concluded, and three of the four people were detained and taken into custody.
38:23They were Jesper, my Brit, and Matthias.
38:30The judge didn't take the suspicions against Mii into account, deciding there wasn't enough evidence. So she was released.
38:35She was still formally charged, but the judge ruled there was not sufficient evidence to keep her.
38:41At that point, I understood the judge's reasons behind Mii's release, but what happened next changed everything completely.
38:48Among other things, much later on, crucial audio recordings were discovered that were absolutely pivotal for this case.
39:09The judge's reasons were absolutely pivotal for this case.
39:11The judge's reasons were absolutely pivotal for this case.
39:39During that weekend, the building blocks of the murder plans were laid out.
39:44After three days in prison, he finally admitted that he was involved in killing Frank.
39:49He felt manipulated by her.
39:51Mii Brit said she had a concise plan for what was going to happen.
39:55As the investigation moved forward, more chilling details emerged.
40:09I want to leave the cemetery.
40:10I had to leave the cemetery.
40:12I'm sorry.
40:27I have gone.
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