Melissa Nordell

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Melissa Nordell
Died(2001-11-11)11 November 2001 [1]
Sweden
NationalitySwedish
Occupationmodel
Known forher murder, by a boyfriend, was an inspiration for the Millennium novels

Melissa Nordell was a Swedish fashion model, who was murdered when she was 22 years old. [2] [1] [3] [4] Her murder, by a disgruntled boyfriend, had a powerful effect on Stieg Larsson author of the Millennium novels, who published an anthology on honour killings in which the case featured heavily. [5] [6] [7]

During her post-mortem, signs were found she had been the target of violence on other occasions. [2] Her ex-boyfriend confessed to the murder. [8] He admitted buying a stun gun, and remembered using it on her, but claimed he did not remember strangling her. He admitted weighting her body, prior to throwing it off a bridge. Her ex-boyfriend's motive is routinely described as rage over her decision to leave him.[ citation needed ]

A few months after Nordell's murder, a Muslim woman, living in Sweden, Fadime Sahindal, was murdered by her father. [9] [10] [11] The two murders are regularly compared. [12] Some commentators question why only Sahindal's murder should be characterized as an honour killing.[ citation needed ] In May 2015 Sweden's TV4 broadcast a documentary about Nordell's murder.

References

  1. 1 2 "Dödade – av sina män" [Killed – by their men]. Aftonbladet (in Swedish). 4 May 2009. Archived from the original on 18 March 2017. Retrieved 27 February 2017. Pojkvännen, en 140 kilo tung 37-åring, åkte en natt hem till Melissas bostad i Åkersberga norr om Stockholm. Han misshandlade och kvävde henne till döds.
  2. 1 2 Lennart Håård; Anders Johansson (13 November 2001). "35-årig man: Jag mördade Melissa" [35-year-old man: I killed Melissa]. Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 27 February 2017. Melissa Nordell, 22, fotomodell. Det var hon som hittades mördad i vattnet vid Björkviks brygga på Ingarö utanför Stockholm.
  3. ↑ Lennart Håård (28 November 2001). "Polis vill ha hjälp lösa mordet på fotomodell". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  4. ↑ Johanna Holmström (27 May 2015). "Fallen jag aldrig glömmer – Avsnitt 4" [Fallen I'll never forget – Section 4] (in Swedish). TV4. Archived from the original on 19 June 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2017. 22-åriga Melissa Nordell från Åkersberga norr om Stockholm var en vacker ung kvinna med framtidsdrömmar om att arbeta som modell. I november 2001 hittades dock hennes nakna kropp invirad i hönsnät vid en brygga på Ingarö.
  5. ↑ Guillaume Lebeau (2008). Le mystère du quatrième manuscrit [The mystery of the fourth manuscript] (in French). Editions Toucan. ISBN   9782810004133 . Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  6. ↑ Kurdo Baksi (2011). Stieg Larsson: The Man Behind The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Simon & Schuster. ISBN   9781451647150 . Retrieved 29 April 2017. Every time Melissa's name was mentioned Stieg's eyes would fill with tears.
  7. ↑ Dan Burstein; Arne de Keijzer; John-Henri Holmberg (10 May 2011). The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of Our Time. St. Martin's Press. p. 287. ISBN   9781429983679 . Retrieved 29 April 2017. In his own essay for the book Steig began by describing the murder of Melissa Nordell, a 22-year-old fashion model, by her 37-year-old boyfriend.
  8. ↑ Pernilla Fagerstrom; Lennart Håård (9 April 2002). "Mordet på Melissa gav livstids fängelse: Tidigare pojkvännen torterade modellen innan hon kvävdes" [The murder of Melissa gave life imprisonment: Former boyfriend tortured the model before choking her]. Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 10 April 2014. Retrieved 27 February 2017. Fotomodellen Melissa, 22 år, mördades den 10 november i fjol. Hon torterades först med elpistol och kvävdes sedan till döds.
  9. ↑ Samrawit Mamo (2009). ""Man slutar tänka, man rycks med i någon slags gruppsykos": En diskursanalys av massmedias diskussion kring våldtäkten i Bjästa" [“You stop thinking, you are moved in some kind of group psychosis”: A discourse analysis of the media's discussion of the rape in Bjesta]. Uppsala University (in Swedish). Retrieved 13 October 2019. Ett exempel på detta är mordet på Fadime Sahindal (1975–2002). Några månader före mordet på Fadime Sahindal i Uppsala mördades en annan kvinna vid namn Melissa Nordell (1979–2001) i Åkersberga av sin före detta pojkvän.
  10. ↑ Sepideh Tina Gheisari Bergström (2009). "Bemötande av hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck" [Treatment of honour related violence and oppression](PDF). Växjö Universitet (in Swedish). Retrieved 13 October 2019. 1999 blev Pela Atroshi mördad, 2001 var det Melissa Nordell och den 21 januari 2002 mördades Fadime Sahindal.
  11. ↑ Kristina Dawoud (9 June 2010). "Främmande våld – En kvalitativ studie om den offentliga debattens tolkning kring "hedersrelaterat" våld" [Alien violence – A qualitative study on the public the debate's interpretation of "honor-related" violence](PDF). Linköpings Universitet (in Swedish). Retrieved 13 October 2019. När Fadime Sahindal mördades i Uppsala mördades ungefär samtidigt den unga svenska Melissa Nordell i Åkersberg i sitt hem av sin före detta pojkvän.
  12. ↑ Bronson, Eric, ed. (2012). The girl with the dragon tattoo and philosophy: everything is fire. The Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series. Hoboken, N.J: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN   978-0-470-94758-6. OCLC   719429265.
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