Hermann Feldmann and Willy Schermann (two of the Jewish refugees) and Karsten Løvestad (one of the guides) were asked by Arne Hvam,[1] a committed Norwegian Nazi policeman, to step outside.
Feldmann, Schermann and the other Jewish refugees were murdered in Auschwitz in August 1943; Karsten Løvestad was also shot in September 1943 after appearing before a tribunal without the benefit of a defense.
But when the company of four arrived at Skrikerudtjernet, the guides clubbed the Jewish couple to death, stole their money, and sank the bodies in the lake with weights.
[3][4] Løvestad fled to Sweden wearing Feldmann's gold watch, and Pedersen returned to his home after this and resumed guiding refugees across the border, including several Jews.
Although the two accused did not deny that they had killed the couple and taken their money, they claimed they had no real choice in the matter: the Feldmanns were old, overweight, and incapable of the long walk to the border.
[5] In 1987, Bente Erichsen directed a Norwegian movie with a fictionalized account of the case, called Over grensen or Feldmann saken,[6] based on the work of dramatized non-fiction by Sigurd Senje titled Ekko fra Skriktjenn.