The Lorenskog Disappearances Season 1 Review – A well-written, slow-burn crime drama

Things are not looking good. There are signs of a fight inside the house, and a note left says Anne will be hurt or killed if Tom and his family call the police or the media. Not only that, the kidnappers also want to be paid the Monero cryptocurrency worth 9 million euros. Only then can he be safely returned. He said it was also scary, that they had been watching the family for a long time and would know if he called the police.

However, Tom calls the police, and they begin an undercover operation to find out who took Anne and why. They try their best to keep it out of the news, but it’s only a matter of time before the media gets involved.

Through the eyes of different main characters, each of the 5 episodes looks at a different part of the case. Most of these differing views are about the two main characters. Erlend is a crime reporter who has a personal interest in this case because of some dark things that happened in his own life.

A woman named Jorunn Lakke is in charge of the police investigation. We follow him from the beginning and see all the ups and downs of his life, including domestic problems and dead ends and false stories related to this case.

As you might expect from a Scandinavian crime drama, a lot of thought went into the mood, tone, and setting of this 5-part series. The characters are well developed, and a lot of time is spent learning about their pasts and what they have to do with the disappearance of Anne-Elisabeth Hagen.

Given the strange nature of the case and the fact that it’s never been solved, it’s nice to see the show take a more realistic approach to making us care about the people looking into it as well as the case itself.

If I had to be really harsh, though, I’d say that episode 3 is probably the weakest of the five chapters here. This comes in the middle of two episodes devoted almost entirely to Aleks and Erlend. Even though the chapter isn’t bad, it feels like a filler before the last two episodes repeat.

This show is similar to HBO’s The Staircase in many ways. As with the dramatization of a famous real-life case, there is no clear answer to this question. There are many different ideas floating around, and some of them are checked during runtime.

Lorenskog Disappearances, on the other hand, is a tight, moody crime drama that is a good example of a Scandinavian crime drama.

What Will Happen to The Lorenskog Disappearances?

The Lorenskog Disappearances is the newest crime drama on Netflix. It’s a dramatic, slightly staged retelling of a high-profile case that rocked Norway in 2019. So, what really went down?

So, here’s how the story goes. Tom Hagen, a Norwegian billionaire, left his home in Lorenskog one morning to work at the Futurum business park. Anne-Elisabeth Hagen, his wife, was kidnapped and held for ransom while he was away.

Things are not looking good. There are signs of a fight inside the house, and a note left says Anne will be hurt or killed if Tom and his family call the police or the media. Not only that, the kidnappers also want to be paid the Monero cryptocurrency worth 9 million euros. Only then can he be safely returned. He said it was also scary, that they had been watching the family for a long time and would know if he called the police.

However, Tom calls the police, and they begin an undercover operation to find out who took Anne and why. They try their best to keep it out of the news, but it’s only a matter of time before the media gets involved.

When it seems like all traces of blood have been cleaned up inside the house and there are other strange things about this case, the clues don’t quite add up.

Tom Hagen was found guilty

18 months into the case, the police arrested Tom Hagen, and the case was forced to go public. The police were talking to the press in advance, but Tom Hagen denied all charges.

Tom says that he and Anne were happily married, and further research into his life seems to show that he doesn’t know much about technology. This made it unlikely that he was the crypto-kidnapper, so ten days after his arrest, the police released him.

Erlend, the journalist we met in episode 2 and later, thinks that Tom is guilty. He tells his co-worker Aleks that Anne-will Elisabeth’s is unfair because she only helps him. Not only that, we also see in flashbacks that Erlend’s father beat his mother, which he also feels very strongly about.

In the end, Erlend will be seen producing an article that will question Tom’s role in all of this and see how the mainstream media has cleared him of suspicion.

What does Mattis believe? Is it true?

A bad guy named Mattis talks to the police about making a deal. He asks to be transferred to a prison with less rules if he can say important things about the Lorenskog case. This is where episode 5 begins.

Mattis tells them he’s known Tom for years when Jorunn sits down to talk. Mattis worked with a man named Peter Vam to set up a scam to steal money from rich people. Together, they would use attractive women to get these men into bad situations, then photograph them and use them as blackmail.

Mattis found out that Vam was close to two men named Edon Kirap and Allan Kirap. Apparently the Kirap group was told to help Edon with the plan, so one night they took a van to Lorenskog. The next morning, they returned with a woman they had taken. Could this be Anne-Elizabeth?

The police try to arrest Peter because they think this is a good lead. Even though he was in Spain, he managed to get away and fly to Dubai. Now that he’s gone, the police can’t find him. Not only that, but the fact that Mattis mysteriously killed himself in prison is another thing that seems to rest on this case. This pretty much kills any chance they might have of following up on this lead.

How does the Lorenskog Disappearances end?

After spending a long time solving the case, Jorun Lakke lost hope and began to doubt that they could ever solve it. In the show’s final scene, she sighs and says, “I don’t know,” which is the perfect way to sum up the whole case.

Tom Hagen is still a successful businessman in Norway. He gives a live TV interview to talk about what happened, including his feelings about the police trying to blame him. He is not happy, which is to be expected. But there is not enough evidence to say whether Anne-Elisabeth was kidnapped, whether Tom Hagen killed his wife, or whether there is another piece of the puzzle that has yet to be found.

Who is Anne? What is the case about?

In October 2018, Tom Hagen, a Norwegian billionaire, left his home in Lorenskog, which is near Oslo, to go to his office in the Futurum business park. As was their routine, he tried to call his wife Anne-Elisabeth Hagen all morning, but she didn’t answer. Around 1:30 in the afternoon, he worried about his wife’s health and went home. To his surprise, Anne was no longer at home. A letter left behind and signs of a fight in the house explain what happened: someone took Anne from her own home. Tom immediately called the police, and they descended on the scene and immediately began their investigation. But the letter that was left was the biggest problem. In it, Anne’s kidnappers say they will hurt or kill Anne if Tom and his family go to the police or the media. In order for Tom to get his wife back, they asked him to send them a ransom of 9 million euros paid in Monero cryptocurrency. But those who hired the family also told them directly that they had been watching for a long time and would know immediately if they called the police or the press. In that case, they said coldly, they would put their safety before money and run away after killing Anne.