Daughter of cannibal dad who killed and ate stepmum speaks out
The daughter of a crazed cannibal who decapitated her stepmum and ate her remains has spoken out about her evil dad who has been freed from a psychiatric hospital since the crime . Jamie-Lee Arrow is featured in a new season of the gripping but gruesome Evil Lives Here: The Killer Speaks. Jamie-Lee's father Isakin Drubbed, Isakin Jonsson who changed his name to Isakan Drabad, the Skara Cannibal, shocked Sweden in 2010 when he cut off parts of Helle Christensen's body and ate her remains. His daughter, Jamie-Lee, 23, opens up about how her convicted murderer father tried to raise her to be as depraved as he was. As a child, she recounts how she became so close to her father's girlfriend, Helle Christensen, who she considered her a second mum. 'She made me feel special,' Arrow, who met the mother of five when she was nine years old and her father, Isakin Jonsson, started dating Christensen, said. But Christensen, who Arrow calls her 'stepmum,' and Arrow's father fought often and violently, which gave Arrow a bad feeling, even at such a young age. In November 2010, Jonsson killed Christensen, 40, in his home in Skara, Sweden. In what became one of Sweden's most notorious murders, Jonsson slit Christensen's throat, decapitated her and 'ate part of her,' Arrow said. She tells the harrowing story of growing up with her father, who changed his name to Isakin Drabbad and is known as 'the Skara Cannibal,' in the season premiere of Evil Lives Here: The Killer Speaks on Investigation Discovery/ID. The two-hour episode, titled, My Father, The Cannibal, features emotional interviews not only with Arrow but with Drabbad himself, who gives rare glimpses into his twisted state of mind before and after Christensen's gruesome murder. Arrow opens up about her bizarre upbringing, including how her father made her macabre 'voodoo dolls.' She said: 'I had 10 of them in my room.' The episode also details Arrow's struggle to come to terms with the reality of who her father really is and how she managed to free herself from his world of depravity. After the murder, he changed his name to Drabbad, which she says means "Infected" in Swedish, she said. 'He made it up himself and that's so true,' she added. 'Everyone that meets him gets infected by him.' Speaking about why she wanted to film the episode, Arrow said: 'I want people to understand the darkness I came from and that I actually managed to get myself out from under it. I still struggle with feeling like I am my own person and that my dad has got nothing to do with who I am.' Convicted in 2011 of Christensen's murder, Jonsson was remanded to a psychiatric hospital . He has since been released from the hospital, but remains under its supervision. His next step is to be fully free, which would give him the same rights as anyone else in Sweden, Arrow says. One of the most emotional and unsettling parts of the episode is when Arrow surprises her father with a visit in October 2024 for the first time in four years. For a moment she says she thinks the father she knew and loved as a child had returned. 'He started crying and hugged me and seemed happy to see me,' she says. 'I so wanted to believe that he had changed and that he had become the dad I always wanted and needed.' That was not the case. 'His true colors started to show again,' she said. Wondering if he was just putting on an act for her, she said: 'I just have to accept that my dad is actually sick and probably capable of doing that even though it hurts to admit that to myself.' Following the filming, Arrow spoke to US news outlet People. She said: 'We had some really long and deep conversations and I did let him know that I love him and I forgive him. But then something happened. He sent me a long, twisted, sick text message where he basically threatened me and my family if I ever reached out to him again.' The text hurt her deeply, but she is also relieved. 'It gave me the closure I needed. It was like I needed that to understand how sick it all is.' Now she is 'mourning him like he is dead,' Arrow, who is the mother of two young children , said. 'I just have to accept that I love him but he can never, ever in a million years be a part of my life, and definitely not my kids' lives. It hurts loving someone that is so bad for you.' Don't miss the latest news from around Scotland and beyond - Sign up to our daily newsletter here.
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