# Someone drugged her and set the fire, or forced her to take the pills.

> Still possible: Someone drugged her and set the fire, or forced her to take the pills.

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[Questions](https://mysteriesdept.com/questions)[Isdal Woman](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/isdal-woman)[How did she die, and was anyone else involved?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/isdal-woman/questions/QST0D7Z7GW242GE/how-did-she-die-and-was-anyone-else-involved)Answer

Answer · Isdal Woman

# Someone drugged her and set the fire, or forced her to take the pills.

Someone drugged her and set the fire, or forced her to take the pills.

**Still possible** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Its tests haven't settled it: two pieces of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- The dose would have incapacitated her before she could set a petrol fire.
- Evidence of another person (tracks, a car, witnesses) in Isdalen.

## What would rule it out

- A pharmacological reconstruction showing she could have set the fire after the dose.

## Evidence 2 for · none against

[A late account of her walking with two men on the hillside days before.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/isdal-woman/evidence/EVD0D7Z7MS24ZQ7/a-late-account-of-her-walking-with-two-men-on-the-hillside)

Speculative

FOR

[The removal of all labels and identity marks suggests planning by her or by others.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/isdal-woman/evidence/EVD0D7Z7N0W2ZQG/the-removal-of-all-labels-and-identity-marks-suggests)

Speculative

FOR

## The questions it answers

[How did she die, and was anyone else involved?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/isdal-woman/questions/QST0D7Z7GW242GE/how-did-she-die-and-was-anyone-else-involved)

Most likelyShe took a large dose of phenobarbital and set fire to herself

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Someone drugged her and set the fire, or forced her to take the pills. [Answer ANS0D7Z7MH87DWM]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D7Z7MH87DWM
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**ANS** 0D7Z7MH87DWM

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