When the first Icelandic jet was purchased, a number of pilots went to the US for training. Two of them did not finish the regimen, with catastrophic consequences.
Jealousy and commitment to kill were the roots of one of the most brutal murders in Iceland. It had been planned for months. A young man, well known in his community, was found naked and beaten to death in his own home.
In 2011, a small family run jewellery shop in Reykjavík Iceland was robbed in broad daylight. Four weeks of investigation brought the police all over Europe to in a search for the guilty parties.
Young mother of three children disappears after a night out with her best friend. She did not return home to her children the following day and was nowhere to be found. Her family and friends knew something was terribly wrong.
A woman asleep in her living room is brutally attacked with a hammer in the middle of the night. Even though one of her daughter witnesses the attack through a glass door she can't help her screaming mother because the perpetrator locked the doors.
At one point the biggest and most technically advanced Amphetamine Factory in Europe was in Iceland. It was run by ex-prisoners and one of them had studied chemistry at University level while in jail.