Daughter ‘mourning’ father, a convicted cannibal killer, after daring to reconnect and only getting a ‘twisted, sick’ answer 

Warning: The article contains details about a cannibalistic murder. Proceed with caution.

Back in 2011, Sweden and the rest of the world were left shaken by the murder of Helle Christensen, who was brutally murdered by her boyfriend, Jimmy Daniel Isaksson, aka “The Skara Cannibal.” The horrifying and grotesque part? He slit her throat, decapitated her, and then proceeded to eat parts of her.

The two met in 2009, while they were in a psychiatric clinic in Boras, Sweden, because of their mental health issues. But Isaksson’s personality was a danger to those around him because of his volatile personality and tendency to automatically veer towards violence when triggered. Despite this, the mother of five moved in with him in 2010 and even tried setting up a tattoo and piercing shop, but their relationship barely saw happier times as it was marked by frequent fights that sometimes became violent to the point that Helle admitted being afraid of Isaksson’s aggression in her personal diaries.

But things worsened quicker than she could anticipate. In November 2010, he killed her in their Skara apartment and cannibalized her. He was convicted of murder in 2011 and sent psychiatric facility where he rechristened himself as Isakin Drabbad (which means “infected” in Swedish). But the one person who lost her all in this heartwrenching murder was his daughter, Jamie Lee Arrow.

She had a close bond with Helle at the age of nine and considered her a second mother to her as she made her “feel special,” as shared by Jamie in a chat with People. She agrees with the name her father gave himself, as “everyone that meets him gets infected by him.” The story of her father, his crime, and their eventual was recently covered in the first episode of American docu-series, Evil Lives Here: The Killer Speaks, which Jamie filmed to make people understand the “darkness” that consumed her past and how she “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.” 

Jamie met her father, but he showed his “true colors”

Drubbad was released from the psychiatric institution sometime in 2020 but remains under its supervision. While his release raised public concern, Sweden’s legal and psychiatric systems prefer to keep individuals like Druabbad with serious mental disorders under observation and assess the possibility of reoffending instead of keeping them locked up. But the man Jamie describes might not be fit for living amid the general population.

She reached out to her father in October 2024 and had an emotional reunion that almost made her believe that “he had become the dad I always wanted and needed.” But her misconception didn’t last long as “his true colors started to show again.”

She visited him a few more times and, between their “long and deep conversations,” she made him aware of her love and forgiveness for him. But it didn’t last long. 

“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 message deeply pained her, but it also reminded her who her father really was and brought her the “closure” that had evaded her all these years, allowing her to “mourn” him like he is no longer alive as “he can never, ever in a million years be a part of my life, and definitely not my kids’ lives.”