WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Jamie-Lee Arrow was just nine years old when her father, Isakin Jonsson, killed and ate parts of her ‘second mother’
Family relationships can be complicated but for Jamie-Lee Arrow they’ve been made immeasurably harder as her father, Isakin Jonsson, is ‘Skara Cannibal’.
Jonsson earned his gruesome moniker after the brutal murder and cannibalisation of his partner, Helle Christensen.
Jamie-Lee has courageously come forward about how her father’s grisly crime affected her from the tender age of nine.
The distress was amplified for Jamie-Lee when the victim, whom she viewed as a second mum, was savagely killed; this after her parents had split during her early years.
The barbaric criminal slit Ms Christensen’s throat, beheaded her, and consumed parts of her body – an act that ranks among Sweden’s most horrific homicides, reports the Mirror US.
Since his 2011 sentence, Jonsson has been locked away in a psychiatric institution. Now, Jamie-Lee has revealed to Live Mint the horror of being ensnared in her father’s sinister legacy.
“My dad definitely brainwashed me and has done since I was three years old,” Jamie-Lee confided in an interview with MailOnline.
“He has always exposed me to the dark side, with the devil and demons and evil spirits, and that has always been a part of my reality – a part of my everyday life.
“He was preparing my brain for it for as long as I remember because he wanted me to be him. He always said that: ‘You are me, you are a better version of me’.”
Jamie-Lee was raised in two starkly contrasting homes – one warm and normal at her mother’s, the other disturbingly dark at her father’s.
At her dad Jonsson’s house, it was a world steeped in eeriness, where horror films played and voodoo dolls sat ominously. The young girl tiptoed on eggshells, with Jonsson switching erratically from doting father to harsh stranger.
She remembers feeling that her step-mother Helle cared deeply for Jonsson, yet the affection seemed unreciprocated.
Amidst occasional laughter, the couple’s relationship was marred by constant fights. Jamie-Lee noted her father’s grip on reality weakening, as the household’s joyful moments dwindled.
What unfolded next was to be the darkest chapter of her life, etched into her memory forever. Shortly before her tragic death, Helle made a haunting comment to Jamie-Lee – words marking their last conversation as Helle fell victim to murder by Jonsson.
Her chilling experiences were brought to light in the true crime documentary Evil Lives Here: The Killer Speaks.
Haunted by those ominous words, Jamie-Lee said: “She [Helle] cooked some food for us. As she served it, she went, like, ‘enjoy your meal because this is the last thing you’ll ever eat from me because your dad is going to kill me.’ That’s one of the last things I ever heard her say.”
It became a harsh reality for Jamie-Lee who never laid eyes on Helle again after that ominous prediction. She hit 13 when she finally grasped the true horror of the term ‘cannibal’, feeling deeply betrayed by her own father.
The reconnection between father and daughter was initially filled with what felt like emotional warmth, but Jamie-Lee soon recognised the years of manipulation at his hands.
She came to see that her dad had painted himself in heroic light, casting his girlfriend as the adversary—all part of a deceitful narrative she was indoctrinated into believing until the chilling moment of realisation dawned upon her. At the age of 18, her father chillingly invited Jamie-Lee to hear the details of how he killed his partner.
“He showed no remorse. He almost said it with passion. And, I was sitting there wanting to throw up. He almost had a smirk on his face,” Jamie-Lee recalled, recounting the traumatic encounter.
“That’s the first time I truly felt in my body that my dad was not well. This man is sick,” she expressed, the revelation hitting her full force.
Jamie-Lee has endured a long-standing battle with depression and substance abuse, a testament to the enduring scars left by her father’s atrocious act.
Now 23 and a mother in a nurturing relationship, she’s determined to shield her young children from their monstrous grandfather, resolutely declaring they’ll never meet him.