Mr. Moller Olsen was arrested on Jan. 18 by a squad of officers — called the Viking Squad, part of the only armed police force in
Iceland — who pursued him by helicopter after his trawler, the Polar Nanoq, had gone on its way back to Greenland from Reykjavik.
Friends and family gathered to honor Birna Brjansdottir, a 20-year-old sales assistant
whose body was discovered near a lighthouse roughly 20 miles from the capital.
When her body was discovered a few days later, nearly 10,000 Icelanders converged
on Laugavegur, the main shopping street in Reykjavik, where she was last seen
Medical examiners found bruises on her neck, the broadcaster reported,
and she was naked when her body was discovered near a lighthouse about 20 miles southeast of Reykjavik, the capital.