🎙 Episode 88: Veronica Orderud — “The Silence at the Farmhouse Door”
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She didn’t shoot.
She didn’t confess.
But she went to prison… along with three others.
This week, we go inside one of Norway’s most haunting and divisive murder cases — the 1999 triple homicide that tore apart the Orderud family.
At the center: Veronica Orderud. Educated. Married. Respected by many.
But behind that calm exterior, prosecutors said, was a woman motivated by land, legacy… and cold calculation.
No one confessed.
No one told the full story.
But someone opened that farmhouse door.
And someone never left.
📍 Location: Sørum, Norway
📅 Date of Crimes: May 22–23, 1999
👥 Victims: Kristian Magnus Orderud, Marie Orderud, Anne Orderud Paust
⚖️ Conviction: Complicity in premeditated murder
🔒 Sentence: 21 years (Veronica & Per); 18 years (Lars); 16 years (Kristin)
📚 Sources
- NRK archives
- Oslo District Court documents
- Interviews with Kristin Kirkemo and Lars Grønnerød
- TV2 post-release features (2020)
- Dagbladet & VG reports from 1999–2002
- Legal commentary by Øystein Milli and Anders Giæver
- Norwegian criminal justice case summaries
🎧 Murderess Podcast is written and hosted by Sidney Smith.
🎙 Produced by Sidney Smith Cre8tiv, LLC and the You Hear Good Things podcast network.
📅 New episodes drop every Thursday.
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