MOTIVE MONDAY: Isakin Drabbad AKA The Skara Cannibal
Some killers want freedom. Others want revenge. Isakin Drabbad claimed he wanted psychiatric care.
In 2005, Drabbad brutally murdered his girlfriend, Helle Christiansen. But this wasn’t just a fatal stabbing. He decapitated her, placed her head in the kitchen, and either staged or committed acts of sexual violence post mortem. He then cooked parts of her body and admitted to eating them.
When asked why, Drabbad said he believed killing someone was the only way to access long-term mental health treatment. He had been in and out of care for years, but said the system failed him. So he forced its hand in the most horrifying way possible.
So now the questions shift:
🟩 Was this a desperate plea from someone slipping through the cracks, or a manipulative excuse crafted after the fact?
🟩 Does the motive lose weight when the method is so monstrous?
Share your thoughts below. How should the justice system respond when someone commits murder in order to be institutionalized?
Honestly, if his goal was mental health care, this was overkill, literally and figuratively. Slitting her throat might’ve been enough to land him in psychiatric custody, but decapitation? Cannibalism? Staging or committing postmortem assault? That’s not desperation, that’s annihilation.
If this was a cry for help, it came dressed in pure sadism.