Reykjavík Grapevine - 01.07.2016, Qupperneq 23

my boys. This was all an accident,” he
told the police as they moved the rock
and escorted him out of the cave. Gré-
tar’s car was visible from the cave.
Grétar told the police that killing
Yvette was an accident. He never took
her to the hospital because he real-
ized she was already dead and no one
would believe him. He had gone up
into the cave to kill himself, scratch-
ing a suicide note on the shaft of his
rifle:
“They had hash and when I told
them to come with me to the office,
they attacked me. I know I messed up
because you’d never believe me.”
Grétar was sentenced to sixteen
years in prison. He was released over
twenty years ago and lives in a retire-
ment home in Iceland. Marie lives in
France.