My Father the Cannibal: Daughter Speaks Out After Dad Decapitated Stepmom, Ate Her Remains

• In 2010, in one of Sweden’s most shocking murders, Isakin Jonsson aka Drabbad, cut off parts of Helle Christensen’s body and ate her remains
• His daughter, Jamie-Lee Arrow, 23, opens up about how her convicted murderer father tried to raise her to be as depraved as he was
• Arrow tells PEOPLE why she had to sever all ties with her father after their last meeting

As a child, Jamie-Lee Arrow became so close to her father’s girlfriend, Helle Christensen, she considered her a second mom.

“She made me feel special,” says Arrow, who met the mother of five when she was 9 years old and her father, Isakin Jonsson, started dating Christensen.

But Christensen, who Arrow calls her “stepmom,” and Arrow’s father fought often and violently, which gave Arrow a bad feeling, even at such a young age.

Her instincts were on target. 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 tells PEOPLE. 

Now 23, Arrow 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, airing Sunday, April 27, at 9/8c on Investigation Discovery/ID.

The two-hour episode, titled, “My Father, The Cannibal,” features intimate, 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. (Part of her visit with her father is shown in the exclusive clip below.)

Arrow opens up about her bizarre upbringing, including how her father made her macabre “voodoo dolls.”  She says: “I had 10 of them in my room.”

The gripping 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 says. “He made it up himself and that’s so true,” she says. “Everyone that meets him gets infected by him.”

Speaking about why she wanted to film the episode, Arrow says, “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, says Arrow. His next step is to be fully free, which would give him the same rights as anyone else in Sweden, she says.

Seeing Father’s ‘True Colors’

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 says.

Wondering if he was just putting on an act for her, she says, “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.”

Mourning the Loss of Father She Once Knew

After filming wrapped, Arrow tells PEOPLE she visited her father a few more times, on her own. 

“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,” says Arrow, the mother of two young children. “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.”

The new season of Evil Lives Here: The Killer Speaks premieres Sunday, April 27, at 9/8c on ID.