Six days later, an employee at the knitting factory in Ørsta contacted the police and told them that he had seen Brungot enter a car she believed belonged to two co-workers. The witness described the car as a white Foud Taunus 12M with black speed stripes along both sides. After hearing this, authorities immediately thought of Edgar Antonsen, since he was the only person in the area to own such a vehicle. Not long after, both of the Antonsen brothers were arrested on charges of deprivation of liberty, which they both stubbornly denied. In the following weeks, police continued gathering evidence in the case, further cementing the brothers' guilt after investigating a report about a burglary in a rural cabin: upon searching it, they found numerous items that were later identified as belonging to Brungot.
