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Murdered Swedish fashion model (1979–2001)
Melissa Nordell
Died2001-11-11
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. Her murder, by a disgruntled boyfriend, is said to have inspired Stieg Larsson to write the Millennium novels.

During her post-mortem, signs were found she had been the target of violence on other occasions. Her ex-boyfriend confessed to the murder. 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. 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.
  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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