She was Amelia Earhart.
No; there would be a name on the luggage then. 
The Norwegian word for challenging can also mean provocative.
Which makes far more sense, in context.
Maybe she was just a top-end call girl who honked off her handlers.
Yes, “utfordrende” = challenging, provocative.
As for “dispatched,” I think the Norwegian word (“ekspedert”) means gotten rid off, dismissed or eliminated. Certainly sounds very spy-ish to me, like intelligence agency jargon or the like.
The Norwegian Wikipedia-page also mentions a few details not found on the English-language one, including:
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[li]A theory presented by a retired Norwegian policeman about the Isdal Woman being part of a group of swindlers dealing with counterfeit checks.[/li]
[li]The spy angle being commonly tied to Haakonsvern, “the main base of the Royal Norwegian Navy and the largest naval base in the Nordic area,” just 15 km from Bergen.[/li]
[li]A KGB official landing in Norway the same day as the Isdal Woman arrived, only to fly back to the Soviet Union merely a few hours later.[/li][/ul]
Curiouser and curiouser!
Update on the case of the Isdal woman. Norwegian television is doing a web-documentary on the case - in collaboration with police experts. Here they try to examine evidence again using modern methods. Follow the series in English here
It took months and months of painstaking library drudgery, but genealogical research led me to a shocking secret – the Isdal Woman was my biological mother. My father kept my existence secret from her, since he knew that anything she knew would eventually be found out by her employers.
But I’m done with secrets. Someone killed my mother, and I’m gonna find out who.
And they better be ready. [cha-chunk of a gun cocking]
Just saw all the episodes published so far, i.e. 1 through 6. They check out her teeth and her DNA, but no major revelations so far. I’m not expecting much tbh.
When I saw this thread title, I really hoped it would be about an Iron Age burial, preferably a bog body.
Disappointed.
Same here!
You’ve never held a gun, have you?
Navy lieutenant Andy has, and Navy guns don’t sound like that, but the Andy in that post lives on the silver screen, where guns go cha chunk, cars explode, and revenge fantasies can be fulfilled.
When you’re headed out on your revenge mission, don’t forget your silencer to make your gun go “peeyoop”. And your knife that goes “schwing” when you wave it around.
My shotgun blasts will send bad guys flying through windows.
How much do you suppose that costs? Asking for a friend.
Yeah, that was definitely a weird time.
Sounds like the Piltdown Man’s girlfriend.
Two years and we still haven’t solved the real mystery of this thread - why Gatopescado thinks you can’t put milk in porridge.
It was a shotgun.