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partner Lars Grønnerød (b. 1958). The motive for the killings according to the prosecution was a conflict over ownership of the
Orderud estate and farm. Marie and Kristian Orderud were registered as the owners of the farm even though their son for years had operated it and wanted to take it over. Prosecutors believed that all four were involved in the murder, but neither the investigation nor the subsequent trials gave answers to who actually carried out the killings.
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the case, claiming that they were innocent. Grønnerød did not appeal, but the prosecuting authority chose to appeal Grønnerød's sentencing because it believed that his punishment was too mild. On April 5 2002, Per
Orderud was sentenced to 21 years in prison and lost the inheritance right to the farm. Veronica Orderud was sentenced to 21 years in prison. Kristin Kirkemo was sentenced to 16 years in prison. Lars Grønnerød was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
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police or others. One explanation may be that the victims initially did not feel the intruder to be threatening and thus did not see it as necessary to contact the police. The fact that
Kristian Orderud was killed while lying in his bed suggested that the perpetrator knew exactly who the victims were. This was backed up by the fact that nothing was missing from the house, ruling out a robbery.
272:, reliable sources independently tie both Per Paust and Anne Orderud Paust to Norwegian intelligence services. Per Paust's death fourteen days before the Orderud murders, reportedly from cancer after short-term sickness, has been suspected by people close to him to in reality have been caused by poisoning. Per Paust had worked in
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Kirkemo, who was convicted for co-conspiracy to the murders, had in turn established close ties to the Yugoslavian mafia in Oslo. The godparents to her son are considered by police to be part of the Yugoslavian mafia involved in the weapons trade, drug trade, and illegal gambling. Income from
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district of Oslo. Per discovered the 5-kilogram tank with an open vent outside his door, which was doused in gasoline. Officials from the Oslo fire department claimed that the whole building could have easily been "blown apart" had the tank ignited. Both assassination attempts received wide publicity
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In June, four people were charged with premeditated murder or complicity in premeditated murder: Anne
Orderud Paust's brother Per Kristian Orderud (b. 1954); his wife Veronica Orderud (b. 1972); Veronica Orderud's half sister Kristin Kirkemo, later Kristin Kirkemo Haukeland (b. 1973); and her former
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The murder of Anne
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On 22 June 2001, both Per and
Veronica Orderud, along with Kristin Kirkemo, were found guilty on all charges and received sentences of 21 years in prison. Lars Grønnerød was found guilty of illegal weapons charges and sentenced to 2.5 years in prison. The Orderud couple and Kristin Kirkemo appealed
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Early in the investigation, the police felt confident that the assailant or assailants were familiar with the victims and that the victims probably knew their killer. The investigators theorized that the time of the killings had not been coincidental. Because only a handful of people knew that Anne
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On the night of 22 May, Anne
Orderud Paust and her parents, Marie (b. 1915) and Kristian Orderud (b. 1918), were shot and killed in the parents' home on the Orderud Estate in Sørum, Akershus. Hiding in the adjacent woods until nightfall, the assailant entered the house sometime between midnight and
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Orderud Paust had voluntarily declined to be assigned close
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and died after a short illness in May that same year. Around 15 May, an anonymous person called and warned authorities that Anne and her parents would be murdered. Despite extensive searches, the caller was never found, and one week later the same people were found dead.
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would be visiting at that precise time, the investigators concluded that the killer had the house under careful surveillance and acted upon seeing her car parked outside. The main theory is that Anne Orderud Paust was the main target of the killer or killers.
280:, describing it in private as his most difficult task ever, balancing between the two sides in the conflict and attempting to stop illegal weapons smuggling. Anne Orderud Paust in turn worked with managing threats against the Foreign Ministry.
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the mafia reportedly financed Kosovo Albanian guerilla activity. In early 1999, Norwegian police took part in a European-wide crackdown on the Kosovo Albanian mafia, including
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bedroom, where Kristian Orderud was lying. He was impaired by his old age and was unable to escape or otherwise offer any resistance to the gunman. He was executed from
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