Fritz Moen

Fritz Yngvar Moen (December 17, 1941 – March 28, 2005) was a Norwegian man wrongfully convicted for two distinct felony murders, serving a total of 18 years in prison. After the overturn of the conviction an official inquiry was instigated to establish what had gone wrong in the authorities' handling of the case, and on June 25, 2007 the commission dealt a crushing blow to both the police, the prosecution and the courts in what was immediately termed the largest justice scandal in Norway of all time.

Moen was deaf with a severe speech impediment. He was also partly paralyzed, but had normal intelligence and good memory.

Initial conviction and sentencing

He was convicted for two separate rapes and murders, both in Trondheim: