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
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."
@@laurenbeddoes3478 completely different country with a completely different past with completely different people so no that's an illogical conclusion
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.
@@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
yep :( this case is deeply upsetting, teenagers that were most likely innocent having their lives destroyed because they committed petty crimes and were tortured
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😭
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.
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.
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.
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
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”
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.
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
@@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
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.
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.
@@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.
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
#postmortem Sooo Gudmundur’s friends see him at 2am on the road clearly drunk trying to hitch a ride but doesn’t try to pick him up or I don’t know, HELP him in any way? That’s cold man.
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.
lazywagon ur right. But it’s hard to live with the mystery. They should tell us about the case in the main episode n reveal the mystery in post-mortem. Tat way everyone can enjoy them.
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.
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
@@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
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.
@@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.
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
@@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 :(
So, two of the "friends" of one of the guys who disappeared SAW him hitchhiking at an ungodly hour, while he was drunk, and neither of them had the common decency to think: "Hey, maybe we should help him get home safely. Because you know, he's our friend and he seems like he really needs a ride." Isn't that odd?
I saw the number of your likes and let me just say: you are very welcome edit: I must do what has to be done I am sorry but I have to take my like back
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!
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!
Bubbly Queenable Iceland, Japan or Canada considered very safe countries but never keep your guard down cause anyone can be the 2 people missing in 10 months.
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
@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.
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
Solitary confinement is one of the cruelest psychological punishments you can use on someone. God, these officers tortured these people... I know they're suspects, but it doesn't make it right.
The worst part is they were "suspects" for absolutely no reason, with no evidence, except the fact that they did some petty white-collar crime and therefore MUST be guilty of multiple homicides.
@@charlescalthrop2535 It really bothers me that Erla (sp) is still convinced of perjury...I feel like you can't convict someone of lying to the court when you tortured her and ostensibly threatened the life of her child to get her to do so. The breach of judicial trust wasn't made by her in this case for sure.
Jón I’m also from Iceland and he did a good job pronouncing their names considering he’s an American. Icelandic pronunciations are really difficult and he couldn’t have done it better. Hættu að dæma drengur...
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 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
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.
Can confirm he was in Iceland, I actually met him and talked to him (service related). I didn’t tell him I watch this show though. I can also confirm he is super nice in person and actually is just like he is in this show ☺️
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 👀
That would mean we would have to have a new unsolved case every year. And I’m pretty sure this is still the only unsolved ‘murder’ we have to this day. This is too much of a nice country, sorry to dissapoint.
“ *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 😅
#PostMortem So, this is a wild theory, but hear me out: both missing guys' last name was Einarsson, and both their names started with a G. Maybe there was someone in/near Reykjavik who held a grudge against -- or, better yet, was told/paid to get rid of -- a G. Einarsson, but couldn't remember the full name, so, just in case, killed both G. Einarssons they found in the area?
Earl Grey not likely, its more likely that they just went out one night, and couldn't find their way home so they just died, it's even more likely that they got killed by a polar bear
because the people who "went missing" mostly just moved to denmark or killed themself and they were always loners who no one noticed went missing until much later. most of these people went missing right after ww2
yeah, i was wondering the same! it's weird that there wasn't one before, apparently, because it'd def be easy to go missing there. sure, there were waayyyy fewer tourists, and tourists are the ones who are more likely to go somewhere they shouldnt and get lost that way (falling into glaciers or stuff like that, i think?), but was prob still not too hard to get lost there, like shane said, a lot of open space where people pretty much never go through. if you were out, idk, fishing or hiking or something like that and some accident happened, it'd be easy for you to never be found again, esp back then bc people didnt have cellphones.
@@memesaremywholeexistence1910 ooooooh it's like "The Lottery" (I think that's the name) where a village picks out a random person to be stoned to death
this is a clear case of psychologically manipulating people into confessing to crimes they didn’t commit. imagine you were drunk or had no memory of a night two years ago, and the police repeatedly: - kept you in solitary confinement - tortured you - threatened to kill you - made you recreate the potential crime - denied overturning your confession - immediately jumped on any doubt - drove you to attempt suicide - assumed guilty until proven innocent you would clearly start to wonder “am i guilty?” which would turn into “i must be guilty.”
Even if I was high off an acid trip and forgot everything that happened in the next 48 hours...tortured for months and in solitude for weeks...id never admit to murder
@@KexyTime From experience, Solitary confinement is total isolation. As a guard, I escorted many inmates to solitary there is EXTREMELY limited interaction between inmates and staff. There is often one window, a bed, and a toilet. You are not allowed any outgoing or incoming phone calls, no mail, and you get your exercise in a small caged in exercise yard roughly 8 ft by 10 ft with an open roof to allow fresh air. Individuals are held for anywhere from 1 week to 6 months and longer.
Hayli also inherently solitary confinement is defined as punishment. You might leave someone in an interview room or in their cell for a time like you said, but it wouldn’t be the same thing. Solitary confinement has been proven to literally drive people insane and is pretty much barbaric IMO
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.
your brain is already affected after 48 hours, there is no way he wasn't anything but insane by 700 or so days and the damage wold likely be irreparable
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.
I was talking to my mother about this case, and apparently my granddad was friends with Sævar and mum remembers he would visit their home sometimes. He was a mild-mannered man and did petty crime at the most, and the common opinion in Iceland is that the police cocked this case up real bad. I don't think there's any chance any of them were guilty. #postmortem
There should be consequences for such acts and manipulation done by those who are involved in the investigation of the case. Police or not, its down right messed up. It's abuse.
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 💔
Ikr?! From what I've learned through these series of Buzzfeed Unsolved is that a majority of the police involved have been, well idiots. (I know that's harsh) Im talking about those who were uneducated about preserving essential evidence involved, (ex. Like evidence at the crime scene) not REALLY doing their research/background checks on people, even being purposely intimidating suspects to confess too crimes they didn't do- just in order for the case to be considered closed. Now another big factor, is of course, the timing these cases took place. Which means we didn't have all the technology we do now, but it's still frustrating to me. It makes me thankful for those special people in the police force who actually took their jobs seriously.
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
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”
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.
@@g.h3874 people disappear all the time in the us even in small towns. Not all of them are bad things though. Some are just people that leave it run s Away. Some bad things happen to. Murders are so common in the us though, that it's not seen as much of a surprise though its bad
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.
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!"
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.
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what made you decide to cover this case?
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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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
@@strawberrymilk4428I don’t think you understand the vastness we are talking about. Or how impossible crevasses are
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
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
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..
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
why is nobody talking about “i’m gonna turn iceland into greenland, baby”
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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
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.
Iceland? Wild
Confinement? Solitary
Hotel? Trivago
Watcher? Hailed.
Wig? Snatched
Lalorna? Wailed.
Ryan? Wheezed.
Shane? doesn't believe it
Erla? Bolladottir.
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..
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.
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.
#postmortem
Sooo Gudmundur’s friends see him at 2am on the road clearly drunk trying to hitch a ride but doesn’t try to pick him up or I don’t know, HELP him in any way? That’s cold man.
Cold as ice
MoonlightStitch welcome to Iceland. # stay cold
MoonlightStitch
That makes sense. They could just run to him and stop him. Geez!
My friends wouldn't have left me there.
Or maybe he killed him.
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.
I want ‘Buzzfeed SOLVED’ for the next season 🙏🏻
But it's kinda cool to play detective with the unsolved cases! Especially considering they are totally real cases and need help being solved.
lazywagon ur right. But it’s hard to live with the mystery. They should tell us about the case in the main episode n reveal the mystery in post-mortem. Tat way everyone can enjoy them.
Sovled for the next season
Well, this case is solved. It was never a mystery. The police tortured confessions out of them
Amanda Croft except it’s unsolved because we still don’t know what actually happened to them
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" 😂
"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!
@@UNSOLVABLE i
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.
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
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
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
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
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
So, two of the "friends" of one of the guys who disappeared SAW him hitchhiking at an ungodly hour, while he was drunk, and neither of them had the common decency to think: "Hey, maybe we should help him get home safely. Because you know, he's our friend and he seems like he really needs a ride."
Isn't that odd?
I was going to say
I’ve read once that he skipped his bill and let them pay for him. They weren’t on good terms at the moment.
I saw the number of your likes and let me just say: you are very welcome edit: I must do what has to be done I am sorry but I have to take my like back
@@cally0165 Same. It should be left like that
@@MarloSoBalJr I don't know who/what comment either of you are talking about.
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 think my favorite thing about this is that in any other country 2 missing people in 10 months would mean literally nothing
Morgan Goodman is that a real statistic?!?
No wonder, Iceland is such a small nation with smaller than regular towns in the US.
according to Las Vegas PD’s website, 5-7 people go missing every DAY
@@JB-wo5hk Seems normal for me who lives in Chicago.I hear gunshots all the time.
Bubbly Queenable Iceland, Japan or Canada considered very safe countries but never keep your guard down cause anyone can be the 2 people missing in 10 months.
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.
“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
Ryan: talking about murders in Iceland
Shane: Iceland was heaven
I mean... demon!Shane would definitely think that places with weird murders was heaven...
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 😂😂
Solitary confinement is one of the cruelest psychological punishments you can use on someone. God, these officers tortured these people... I know they're suspects, but it doesn't make it right.
The worst part is they were "suspects" for absolutely no reason, with no evidence, except the fact that they did some petty white-collar crime and therefore MUST be guilty of multiple homicides.
Xerxies yascolt precisely, they were nearly certainly innocent. Being alone for long periods of time messes with your head.
@@charlescalthrop2535 It really bothers me that Erla (sp) is still convinced of perjury...I feel like you can't convict someone of lying to the court when you tortured her and ostensibly threatened the life of her child to get her to do so. The breach of judicial trust wasn't made by her in this case for sure.
It ain't a big deal lmao they killed someone so they deserve it
I would rather be in solitary. While, if my head wasn't continually dunked in water.
Ryan did research ahead of time to pronounce these names which tells you how serious he takes his work.
Hey i’m from iceland and how the pronounced the names and everything is absolutely terrible they butchered every name and words. Just saying😂
Ryan can’t pronounce February right, I doubt he pronounced any of these names
Jón I’m also from Iceland and he did a good job pronouncing their names considering he’s an American. Icelandic pronunciations are really difficult and he couldn’t have done it better. Hættu að dæma drengur...
He def did not bro
@@user-rd2gj1yi8z Chillaðu kelling.
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
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.
For post mortem: who took care of erla’s baby while she and the father of her child where in jail¿?
As a mother I wondered this probably family
I wondered the same after the baby was brought up and then never mentioned again. #postmortem
There is a "newish" docu about the whole case called "out of thin air" which you can find on netflix.
This is a great case study for criminology students to show how poor police work can cause false confessions
This is a great study for anyone about abuse of power. It's like Standford all over again.
Campbell Soup poor police work? Their psychopathic maniacs!!!!
@@ronniesutton9388 I think they meant how poor their work is, like their work is bad
The book Ryan referenced in this episode is used when studying criminology and forensics psychology.
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
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
Thrown into solitary confinement and forced to sign a confession to a crime you didn't commit?
All hail The Watcher.
god lmao
WarlegganFangirl1984 oNe hUndREth LiKeR
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Lauren Nash day urididdiiiw iakquiqjqlekekekekskzkskXldsons
T H E G R E A T E R G O O D
#PostMortem Maybe Shane just *_thought_* he took a trip to Iceland 👀
Throw him in solitary confinement until he confesses!
Can confirm he was in Iceland, I actually met him and talked to him (service related). I didn’t tell him I watch this show though. I can also confirm he is super nice in person and actually is just like he is in this show ☺️
omg tea
Well, he posted a photo in his Instagram.
Me too. I think.
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.
This video was NOT sponsored by TOURISM OF ICELAND
iceland police: "what year is it?"
suspect: "its 20-"
iceland police: "into solitary confinement you go."
For the #postmortem: What if Iceland has a single person purge every year and that woman was telling the truth?
YaBoiiiHarry UwU yes! You forgot hashtag #postmortem
That would mean we would have to have a new unsolved case every year. And I’m pretty sure this is still the only unsolved ‘murder’ we have to this day. This is too much of a nice country, sorry to dissapoint.
Exactly what I thought 😂😂😂
sorry but I'm from Iceland and that is not true. we have less then one murder a year and mostly it's about money or just crazy people being crazy.
Marta Valdis No, they just pretend the sacrifices died of Cancer or a Heart attack.
You have to open your eyes to reality.
Ryan's perfect pronunciation of foreign words and names deserves more recognition and respect. He clearly puts 110% effort into his case files.
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
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
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
“ *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 😅
#PostMortem
So, this is a wild theory, but hear me out: both missing guys' last name was Einarsson, and both their names started with a G. Maybe there was someone in/near Reykjavik who held a grudge against -- or, better yet, was told/paid to get rid of -- a G. Einarsson, but couldn't remember the full name, so, just in case, killed both G. Einarssons they found in the area?
Earl Grey GET NOTICED ALREADYYYY. 😱😱😱 This is pretty good.
Or killed one and realized it was the wrong on so they killed the “right one”
I thought this too, too bad we dont know if they were involved in shady stuff, cause this isnt a regular grudge
Just like Fargo season 3
Earl Grey not likely, its more likely that they just went out one night, and couldn't find their way home so they just died, it's even more likely that they got killed by a polar bear
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
#PostMortem If people frequently went missing in Iceland, why was there no nationwide missing persons task force?
because the people who "went missing" mostly just moved to denmark or killed themself and they were always loners who no one noticed went missing until much later. most of these people went missing right after ww2
Maybe since there was no government task force set up to find missing people there was also nobody tracking the amount of people going missing?
Emma Clarke there is I’m Icelandic
Hot fuzz
yeah, i was wondering the same! it's weird that there wasn't one before, apparently, because it'd def be easy to go missing there. sure, there were waayyyy fewer tourists, and tourists are the ones who are more likely to go somewhere they shouldnt and get lost that way (falling into glaciers or stuff like that, i think?), but was prob still not too hard to get lost there, like shane said, a lot of open space where people pretty much never go through. if you were out, idk, fishing or hiking or something like that and some accident happened, it'd be easy for you to never be found again, esp back then bc people didnt have cellphones.
"I've already come"
"I'll come"
Me: (wheeze) *no i am not mature*
yeah. as an icelander i can confirm that every year we do infact do a murder.
like you all come together and do it as a team?
@@timeforlaurynsopinion5138 Yes exactly it’s like the Hunger Games we just draw a name :)
@@timeforlaurynsopinion5138 yeah its fun. You should come for the holiday sometimes, maybe your name gets drawn
It’s like Midsommar but Icelandic. Or the Lottery (the short story)
@@memesaremywholeexistence1910 ooooooh it's like "The Lottery" (I think that's the name) where a village picks out a random person to be stoned to death
this is a clear case of psychologically manipulating people into confessing to crimes they didn’t commit. imagine you were drunk or had no memory of a night two years ago, and the police repeatedly:
- kept you in solitary confinement
- tortured you
- threatened to kill you
- made you recreate the potential crime
- denied overturning your confession
- immediately jumped on any doubt
- drove you to attempt suicide
- assumed guilty until proven innocent
you would clearly start to wonder “am i guilty?” which would turn into “i must be guilty.”
#postmordem
They were innocent. Definitely. A complete mis-handling of the case.
Haha just like Mccarthyism or the Salem witch trails.. right? Kind of..
Maybe I have never become too drunk to not remember but I remember even when I am really drunk.. The eyes are the gateway to writing the mind
Even if I was high off an acid trip and forgot everything that happened in the next 48 hours...tortured for months and in solitude for weeks...id never admit to murder
And this, ladies and gentleman, is another great example of why solitary confinement shouldn’t be legal.
i mean not for more that a day or so, like if a suspect needs to clear their head before they are interviewed?
Hayli That’s not solitary confinement, that’s just leaving someone alone for a little while. Solitary is completely different.
Elizabeth Shatto well then Idk, I thought it was when you left someone in a room alone and food was given without any communication.
@@KexyTime From experience, Solitary confinement is total isolation. As a guard, I escorted many inmates to solitary there is EXTREMELY limited interaction between inmates and staff. There is often one window, a bed, and a toilet. You are not allowed any outgoing or incoming phone calls, no mail, and you get your exercise in a small caged in exercise yard roughly 8 ft by 10 ft with an open roof to allow fresh air. Individuals are held for anywhere from 1 week to 6 months and longer.
Hayli also inherently solitary confinement is defined as punishment. You might leave someone in an interview room or in their cell for a time like you said, but it wouldn’t be the same thing. Solitary confinement has been proven to literally drive people insane and is pretty much barbaric IMO
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.
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
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?
I would have confessed after like a week in solitary, tops. Can't imagine how bad your brain is after 700 days
your brain is already affected after 48 hours, there is no way he wasn't anything but insane by 700 or so days and the damage wold likely be irreparable
they didn't knew what to do so they went for solitary confinements but forgot about mental health and psychology...
Idk I haven't left my home in a little over 3 years due to a phobia and I'm ok
There is a massive difference between a house and a solitary confinement cell.
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.
I was talking to my mother about this case, and apparently my granddad was friends with Sævar and mum remembers he would visit their home sometimes. He was a mild-mannered man and did petty crime at the most, and the common opinion in Iceland is that the police cocked this case up real bad. I don't think there's any chance any of them were guilty. #postmortem
There should be consequences for such acts and manipulation done by those who are involved in the investigation of the case. Police or not, its down right messed up. It's abuse.
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...
“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
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 💔
*dozens of people go missing*
The Watcher: all me baby
This comment needs more like
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
this comment is underrated
Iceland is like Dr Phil, instead of TO THE RANCH it's just TO SOLITARY.
*T O S O L I T A R Y*
*T O T H E R A N C H*
And people wonder why these cases go Unsolved.
The police working on these cases are freaking ridiculous.
Nobody:
Icelandic Police: SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
Ikr?! From what I've learned through these series of Buzzfeed Unsolved is that a majority of the police involved have been, well idiots. (I know that's harsh) Im talking about those who were uneducated about preserving essential evidence involved, (ex. Like evidence at the crime scene) not REALLY doing their research/background checks on people, even being purposely intimidating suspects to confess too crimes they didn't do- just in order for the case to be considered closed.
Now another big factor, is of course, the timing these cases took place. Which means we didn't have all the technology we do now, but it's still frustrating to me. It makes me thankful for those special people in the police force who actually took their jobs seriously.
Emily 216 they should just let the internet work this stuff out we’ll have this stuff solved in minutes
Ben Fluksa
Still. They had other ways of extracting info than solitary confinement.
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
3 episodes of unsolved in a week... The gods have listened to my prayers!!😂
All thanks to the Watcher...
*All hail the Watcher, baby!*
Our Trashy Life - damn I should have put that😂
@@poppyjones3362 no worries, I got ya covered 👌
Our Trashy Life Thankssssssssss👌👌👌
*ALL HAIL THE WATCHER*
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.
This is a huge scandal in Iceland. I recommend the documentary “out of thin air” which you should be able to find on Netflix.
Do people really find it normal to have so many disappearances?
Dizzy 396 as someone who’s lived in america their entire life (sadly), disappearances and murders are everyday things
I saw that. What happened to Saevar in particular at the end of his life...depressing as hell.
@@g.h3874 people disappear all the time in the us even in small towns. Not all of them are bad things though. Some are just people that leave it run s
Away. Some bad things happen to. Murders are so common in the us though, that it's not seen as much of a surprise though its bad
Netflix has a great documentary about this : Out of thin air
Great episode, guys!
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
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?"
"gonna turn iceland into greenland baby”
*wheezing*
shane legit sold me on Iceland.
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.
- 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
Thy truth will prevail, and thy confessions will enlighten thou, Thy Watcher shall be hailed, all hail Thy Watcher now.
all hail the Watcher
Lmao gay
U wut M8
Let’s just give Ryan hella props for tackling those Icelandic towns and names
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!"
"gonna turn Iceland into Greenland, baby". quote it.
Quote...........End quote
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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.
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
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.
This is absolutely mental abuse. Who would do this 🤦🏾♀️
The Icelandic police forty years ago
PrincessPuffin stupidity deserves sarcasm like this hahah
Gina Haspel in 2002
All hail The Watcher
Ajie (unrelated) you are so beautiful
this honestly was the most frustrating and sad unsolved episode
The pronunciations are a 10/10 for effort. Not one word was pronounced correctly but you did your best :)
better than i could have done, at least he tried i would have just said “read the screen”
And you would know because. . .?
@@cherylt6762 not everyone on the internet is from the united states mate
Cheryl T ??? Some people live in Iceland, Cheryl
@@cherylt6762 Do you think that literally everyone on the internet comes from America?
Props to Shane and Ryan for carrying buzzfeed with this channel. This is one of the only good things with buzzfeed.
So now Ryan and Shane HAVE to go to Iceland together for Unsolved Supernatural to learn more of the folklore of all the missing people👍🏻
YES PLEASE!!
i would pay to see that!
What if they never come back
@@Call_me_Kelllz would make for an amazing story ngl-
But we'd never see it because they can't upload if they are gone 😭
Shane, getting shoved into a crack in the ice by a demon: Huh, strong winds here in Iceland.
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
a list of the most used words in this video:
5: police
4: the
3: einarsson
2: solitary confinement
1: *ICELAND*
kate jacquay *laughs in Iceland*
laughs in solitary confinement
laughs in einarsson
Laughs in the