More than 30 years after Therese Johannessen disappeared without a trace, her DNA profile has emerged. At the same time, the police are closing the controversial Pakistan connection trail of the investigation.

The information appeared in the new documentary series “Therese – the girl who disappeared,” which will run on Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) from Sunday. 

The nine-year-old Therese Johannessen disappeared without a trace from Fjell in Drammen on July 3, 1988.

“DNA from Therese has been found on a pillowcase and an eraser, and these two who together gave us a profile,” Kjell Johan Abrahamsen, a prosecutor in the Southeast Police District, told NRK.

That means that the police can identify Therese if she shows up or if her remains are found.

Pakistani connection trail dropped

The documentary series also reveals that the police have closed the much-discussed Pakistani connection trail of the investigation.

Therese’s mother was in a relationship with a Pakistani man before she met Therese’s biological father. 

The trail was based on the notion that Therese was potentially the Pakistani man’s daughter and that his family abducted her. 

The police have no indications or evidence to believe this.

The series also states that the man and his family have experienced the suspicions of abduction as a burden for several years.

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