Missing Labels, Witness Fables & How to Turn Tables with Magic from Cables: Death at Oslo Plaza

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🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

On the night of June 3, 1995, a young woman was found deceased from a gunshot wound to the forehead on the 28th floor of the Oslo Plaza hotel in Norway. As she had just checked into the facility a few days earlier with her husband, it was initially thought some type of domestic dispute ended in murder. But as authorities began to investigate, they couldn't seem to validate the existence of the woman's husband. To make matters worse, they didn't know who she was either. And once the police concluded the death was likely a suicide, the forensics conducted in the aftermath seemed to suggest the woman had never fired the gun found in her hand. Twenty-five years later, the world is still trying to unravel the mystery behind the true identities of Lois and Jennifer Fergate.

Were they a real couple, perhaps even spies? Was Jennifer Fergate really murdered? Or was it all a ruse, a plan devised to cover up the shame of one person's suicide? Join host Ryan Kraus for a fascinating journey into the psychology of the emotional narrative rendered by the victim's actions.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to cold case murder mysteries.
0:08.9	I'm your host Ryan Kraus returning for another installment of terror, mystery, and mayhem.
0:14.4	In this episode, we'll be delving into the baffling yet tragic demise of an unknown woman
0:20.1	who met a grisly fate inside room 2805 at the Oslo Plaza Hotel in Norway.
0:27.0	At approximately 1045 p.m. on May 31st 1995, a young white woman who spoke both German and English checked into the
0:37.9	luxurious high rise under the name Jennifer Fairgate, along with a man named Lois Fairgate. Yet by June 3rd, just a few days later,
0:48.8	Jennifer would be discovered deceased with a gunshot wound to her forehead, and there would be no sign of Lois.
0:57.1	But that's just the beginning.
0:59.0	The mystery builds from there.
1:01.4	It all starts on May 22nd, 1995 when Oslo Plaza Hotel receives a call from
1:08.6	Jennifer Fairgate to make a reservation. It's only 1995, so this essentially predates the popular option of being able to book online.
1:19.0	Now, Jennifer reserves the room with the last name,
1:22.5	Fergate, which is misheard as Feregate
1:26.4	by the person helping her, almost certainly
1:29.2	because Feregate is a common name,
1:31.7	but Feregate is a nearly non-existent name. She makes accommodations for two
1:37.0	guests. Of course, Lois is traditionally a woman's name, except in France, and we later learn she definitely intended
1:45.8	this part of the booking to be for a man because she mentioned her husband coming with her.
1:51.6	So unfortunately, we don't know the dates initially booked
1:55.3	because they were changed during a second call with the hotel on May 31st which
2:00.9	was a Wednesday. In that call, Jennifer asks to have her reservation moved
2:06.0	up to that night and also asserts she'll be arriving with another person. Records show that the young woman did in fact check in with the front
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