The producers say they hired Chip Johannessen, a former "24" writer and showrunner on "Dexter, " because of his skill with tense action-thriller plots.
"The Icelander's attitude is, if my sickness can do something good for curing other people, then it's a good thing, " says Matthias Johannessen, editor of Morgunbladid, Iceland's largest daily.
But Kenyon International Emergency Services, the private company hired by the state to remove the bodies, is on call if any other body is found, said Bob Johannessen, a spokesman with the state Department of Health and Hospitals.