Melissa Nordell

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, is said to have inspired Stieg Larsson to write the Millennium novels.[5][6][7]

Melissa Nordell
Died2001-11-11[1]
Sweden
NationalitySwedish
Occupationmodel
Known forher murder, by a boyfriend, was an inspiration for the Millenium Novels

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.

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. Some commentators question why only Sahindal's murder should be characterized as an honour killing. In May 2015 Sweden's TV4 broadcast a documentary about Nordell's murder.

References
  1. "Dödade – av sina män" [Killed – by their men] (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. 2009-05-04. Archived from the original on 2017-03-18. Retrieved 2017-02-27. 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. Lennart Håård; Anders Johansson (2001-11-13). "35-årig man: Jag mördade Melissa" [35-year-old man: I killed Melissa] (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. Retrieved 2017-02-27. Melissa Nordell, 22, fotomodell. Det var hon som hittades mördad i vattnet vid Björkviks brygga på Ingarö utanför Stockholm.
  3. Lennart Håård (2001-11-28). "Polis vill ha hjälp lösa mordet på fotomodell" (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  4. Johanna Holmström (2015-05-27). "Fallen jag aldrig glömmer - Avsnitt 4" [Fallen I'll never forget - Section 4] (in Swedish). TV4. Archived from the original on 2015-06-19. Retrieved 2017-02-27. 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 2017-04-29.
  6. Kurdo Baksi (2011). Stieg Larsson: The Man Behind The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781451647150. Retrieved 2017-04-29. Every time Melissa's name was mentioned Stieg's eyes would fill with tears.
  7. Dan Burstein; Arne de Keijzer; John-Henri Holmberg (2011-05-10). 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 2017-04-29. 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 (2002-04-09). "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] (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. Archived from the original on 2014-04-10. Retrieved 2017-02-27. 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 2019-10-13. 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 2019-10-13. 1999 blev Pela Atroshi mördad, 2001 var det Melissa Nordell och den 21 januari 2002 mördades Fadime Sahindal.
  11. Kristina Dawoud (2010-06-09). "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 2019-10-13. När Fadime Sahindal mördades i Uppsala mördades ungefär samtidigt den unga svenska Melissa Nordell i Åkersberg i sitt hem av sin före detta pojkvän.
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