Inside the Mind of Horror: What Growing Up With a Notorious Cannibalistic Murderer Really Entailed, According to His Daughter
Ever wonder what’s it like growing up with a parent who, well, made “family dinners” a tad more complicated than most? Meet Jamie-Lee Arrow—daughter of Isakin Drabbad, notoriously dubbed ‘The Skara Cannibal’ after he murdered his girlfriend in 2010 and, shockingly, consumed parts of her body. Now, before you recoil in disbelief, Jamie-Lee steps into the spotlight not just as the daughter of a killer but as someone grappling with a past darker than your average thriller. How do you mourn someone who is both your father and a figure you’d rather erase? Can love survive when it’s tangled with terror? Her story unpacks all this heartbreak and confusion, offering a rare—and haunting—glimpse behind the headline, as she tries to carve out an identity far from her father’s grim legacy. Trust me, this is one rollercoaster of a true crime tale you won’t want to miss.
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’.
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)
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.
“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.
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.”
Featured Image Credit: Investigation Discovery
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