Death in Ice Valley

{{Short description|Norwegian true crime podcast}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

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| title = Death in Ice Valley

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| host = Marit Higraff and Neil McCarthy

| num_seasons = 2

| num_episodes = 12

| began = 26th March 2018

| ended = 06th June 2021

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Death in Ice Valley is a 2018 true crime podcast produced by NRK, the Norwegian radio and television public broadcasting company and BBC World Service. It is authored by Marit Higraff, a Norwegian investigative journalist with NRK, and Neil McCarthy, documentary producer with BBC.{{Cite web |title=BBC - - Media Centre |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/death-in-ice-valley?lang=gd |access-date=2020-04-27 |website=www.bbc.co.uk}}{{Cite web |date=2018-04-17 |title=Death in Ice Valley: The new true crime podcast that's the BBC's answer to Serial |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/death-in-ice-valley-podcast-bbc-serial-true-crime-a8309166.html |access-date=2020-04-27 |website=The Independent |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2017-11-21 |title=The Isdalen Mystery |url=https://www.nrk.no/isdal/en/ |access-date=2020-04-27 |website=NRK |language=nb-NO}} The podcast follows a two-year investigation into the Isdal Woman case, concerning an unknown woman whose burned body was found in western Norway in 1970. It instigated a crowd-sourcing campaign for new leads in the investigation, gathered around the eponymous Facebook group run by World Service editor Anna Doble and journalist Beth Ryder.{{cite web|title=How the crowdsourced investigation 'Death in Ice Valley' became the podcast of the year |url=https://www.thedrum.com/news/2020/03/10/how-the-crowdsourced-investigation-death-ice-valley-became-the-podcast-the-year |date=2020-03-10 |website=The Drum |access-date=2021-07-19}}

Higraff makes use of modern forms of journalism, mostly podcasting.{{Cite web |date=2018-06-22 |title=Marit Higraff Talks Journalism, Storytelling, and "Death in Ice Valley" |url=https://wilwilliams.reviews/2018/06/22/marit-higraff-talks-journalism-storytelling-and-death-in-ice-valley/ |access-date=2020-04-27 |website=Wil Williams Reviews |language=en}} She is one of the leading experts on the case of the Isdal Woman and successfully encouraged the Bergen Police to reopen the case in 2016.{{Cite web |title=BBC World Service - Death in Ice Valley, Marit Higraff on the quest to identify the 'Isdal woman' |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p064g8my |access-date=2020-04-27 |website=BBC |date=16 April 2018 |language=en-GB}}