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🎙 Episode 88: Veronica Orderud — “The Silence at the Farmhouse Door”
Standalone Episode

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.