The Woman with the Heavy Suitcase: A Nordic Con Artist's Trail

Marie Madeleine Steen's elaborate fraud schemes across Denmark and Norway exposed in acclaimed podcast series

Marie Madeleine Steen, a Norwegian woman born in 1957, orchestrated an intricate web of fraud across Denmark and Norway using false identities and carefully constructed deceptions. Her crimes came to light through a 2016 investigative podcast that tracked her elaborate scams involving religious refuges and a mysterious heavy suitcase.