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Daughter of a cannibalistic murderer opens up about what childhood was really like with the notorious killer

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Updated 20:21 7 May 2025 GMT+1Published 20:20 7 May 2025 GMT+1

Daughter of a cannibalistic murderer opens up about what childhood was really like with the notorious killer

Her father is Isakin Drabbad, who in 2010 murdered his girlfriend and ate part of her body

Joe Harker

Joe Harker

Featured Image Credit: Investigation Discovery

Topics: True Crime, Crime, World News

Joe Harker
Joe Harker

Joe graduated from the University of Salford with a degree in Journalism and worked for Reach before joining the LADbible Group. When not writing he enjoys the nerdier things in life like painting wargaming miniatures and chatting with other nerds on the internet. He's also spent a few years coaching fencing. Contact him via [email protected]

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Isakin Drabbad gained the nickname 'The Skara Cannibal' after murdering his girlfriend Helle Christensen and eating parts of her body in November 2010.

The Swedish man was committed to a mental health institution, and his daughter Jamie-Lee Arrow told People she is 'mourning him like he is dead'.

This true crime tale is the subject of the first episode of the new season of Evil Lives Here: The Killer Speaks, with the episode itself titled 'My Father The Cannibal'.

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Arrow told People that she saw Helle Christensen as her 'stepmom' and that the woman made her 'feel special'.

Isakin Drabbad murdered and ate his girlfriend in 2010 (Investigation Discovery)
Isakin Drabbad murdered and ate his girlfriend in 2010 (Investigation Discovery)

She explained that when she was nine years old her father started dating Christensen, but the two of them often fought and young Jamie-Lee got a bad feeling about how things were going.

Her fears proven right when her father murdered the woman and ate part of her body.

"I want people to understand the darkness I came from and that I actually managed to get myself out from under it," Arrow said of being more than the daughter of the cannibal murderer.

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"I still struggle with feeling like I am my own person and that my dad has got nothing to do with who I am."

In the episode the cameras followed her on a visit to see her father in October 2024, the first time she had seen him in four years, where he insisted that cutting off Christensen's head was 'not murder'.

“I so wanted to believe that he had changed and that he had become the dad I always wanted and needed," she said, but it wasn't to be as 'his true colours started to show again'.

She said she had to 'accept that my dad is actually sick', explaining to People that she did visit him again a few times and had long conversations with him before he sent her a lengthy and threatening text message.

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In the end, the message, which she described as 'sick', gave her the closure she needed to move on and treat her father 'like he is dead'.

She 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.”

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