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40. The Steamboat mass murder

During the night between May 16th and May 17th of the year 1900, a man attacked people onboard of the steamer Prins Carl in the lake Mälaren. It was supposed to be a robbery, but a lot of things went...

39. The double homicide in Linköping

It started out as any other Tuesday morning, but this day was going to be far from normal. It was October 19th, 2004, in a town called Linköping in Sweden. 8-year-old Mohamed leaves his apartment to walk the short distance...

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38. Anna Lindh

On September 10, 2003, a man with a knife attacks and brutally stabs the minister of Foreign Affairs, Anna Lindh, inside a department store in the central parts of Stockholm. Anna is rushed to the hospital but dies the next...

37. The Arboga woman – part 3 of 3

At 11:10 pm on August 3rd, 2016, a badly injured woman called 112, the Swedish emergency number. She woke up and saw a man sitting on top of her husband in bed, stabbing him. When the perpetrator realized that she...

37. The Arboga woman – part 2 of 3

At 11:10 pm on August 3rd, 2016, a badly injured woman called 112, the Swedish emergency number. She woke up and saw a man sitting on top of her husband in bed, stabbing him. When the perpetrator realized that she...

37. The Arboga woman – part 1 of 3

At 11:10 pm on August 3rd, 2016, a badly injured woman called 112, the Swedish emergency number. She woke up and saw a man sitting on top of her husband in bed, stabbing him. When the perpetrator realized that she...

Introducing Scene of the Crime Season 1: Delphi

Introducing a brand-new podcast called Scene of the Crime, season 1 is on the Delphi case. https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/sceneofthecrime?selected=HIM1005356840 E-mail [email protected] Homepage: http://truecrimesweden.com/

36. The school attack

On 22 October 2015, 21-year-old Anton Lundin Pettersson entered the Kronan School in the town of Trollhättan, armed with a huge sword. His mission was to kill, but some students thought he was pranking, I guess the situation was so...

35. Jaan Norrby

On December 17, 2004, a bank robbery takes place at a local bank in the city of Söderhamn. A man walked into the bank with a gun and demanded the tellers to hand over all the money they had. The...

34. Therese Palmkvist

Animal protection are called out to a house where two cats seems to be abandoned. Animal protection call the police and ask them to go into the house since the lights are on inside, but nobody is opening. When entering...

33. David’s story

David and Maria had known each other for more than 15 years. They met on a blind date and after a few years of dating they split up but remained friends and never lost contact. On Saturday October 17, 2015,...

32. Nora and the Police chief

A 17-year-old girl enters a hotel room with a 61-year-old man. She has agreed to have sex with him for money, one of her many ways of self-harming. The man who seemed nice and normal over the phone when they...

31. Lovisa Lindh – part 2 of 2

In the early morning of June 18, 2014, a 24-year-old woman is pacing back and forth between her car and an apartment building in Askersund, a small town in the middle of Sweden. She hasn’t slept at all that night,...

31. Lovisa Lindh – part 1 of 2

In the early morning of June 18, 2014, a 24-year-old woman is pacing back and forth between her car and an apartment building in Askersund, a small town in the middle of Sweden. She hasn’t slept at all that night,...

30. Hanna Johansdotter

On November 15th, 1888, 21 year-old Hanna Johansdotter marries 26 year-old Per Nilsson, and moves in with him and his mother. About four months later Hanna is found dead on the bottom of the basement stairs. But she didn’t fall...

29. The Uppsala kidnapping

On December 28th, 2011, 25-year-old university student Alexander Åhman is studying in his apartment in Uppsala. A female friend comes over and brings a meat pie, they eat together but the pie tastes funny. Alexander can feel how he’s getting...

28. Lisa Holm

On Sunday night June 7th, 2015, the 17-year-old Lisa Holm was about to go home from her summer job at a café in Kinnekulle, a town in the middle of Sweden. She was going to drive her scooter home, a...

27. The triple murder in Åmsele

It’s about 3 am on July 3rd, 1988 in the small village of Åmsele in the northern parts of Sweden. 15-year-old Fredrik see how two people walk into the garden of their house, steals a bike, and takes off.  He...

26. The serial rapist in Örebro

The city of Örebro is in fear. A violent serial rapist has been taunting the police for years, making women in the city afraid to walk outside alone. And now he seems to be escalating. On Sunday October 10th, 2010,...

25. Vatchareeya “Ploy” Bangsuan

A girl goes missing in a rural part of northern Sweden in May 2013. She was last seen by her ex-boyfriend, who immediately became the prime suspect in the case. Sixteen days later both her legs are found in an...

24. The fire on Dalarö

A call comes in to the fire department about a small cabin being on fire. The caller says there are two boys still inside the small house. This is a horrible story about a father who in his intent to...

Bonus episode – Q&A

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23. Marcus Noren

On Friday December 27, 2002, a 22-year-old man named Marcus Norén decided to have a night out in the town of Halmstad. But he never made it home that night, and no one ever saw him again. Three days later,...

22. The Plastic Surgeon

Imagine that you are lying on a gurney in a doctor’s office. The doctor has given you something for the pain before the procedure, but you are still awake. Imagine then that the doctor puts his fingers inside you and...

21. The von Sydow murders

The von Sydow murders is one of Stockholm’s most notorious criminal cases. It was on the afternoon of March 7, 1932, Swedish politician Hjalmar von Sydow, his housekeeper Karoline Herou, and the maid Ebba Hamn were all found beaten to...

20. The Haga man – part 2 of 2

A woman is walking home from a nice night out with friends when she hears footsteps behind her. Seconds later a man catches up with her and pushes her to the ground. She is brutally attacked and raped, the man...

20. The Haga man – part 1 of 2

A woman is walking home from a nice night out with friends when she hears footsteps behind her. Seconds later a man catches up with her and pushes her to the ground. She is brutally attacked and raped, the man...

19. Nathalie and Denise

On May 27th, 2006, at 2:52 am the police get a call from a 13-year-old girl named Nathalie. She’s standing outside an apartment building, naked and barefoot, she’s just wearing the coat she managed to grab before she fled. Still...

18. Carolin Stenvall

On Friday September 12th, 29-year old Carolin Stenvall was on the way to a job-interview at the Ice-hotel in Jukkasjärvi in the north of Sweden. It was a five-hour drive from her home in Piteå and she was driving alone....

Bonus episode from Patreon: The real red wedding

Not everyone knows that the red wedding in the George RR Martin’s Game of Thrones is actually inspired by a real event – Stockholms blodbad which translates to Stockholm bloodbath. The Stockholm Bloodbath was a trial that led to a...

17. Axe-Johan

When Johan Nilsson was 19 years old he stabbed his father to death with an axe. He was sentenced to psychiatric care and while hospitalized he was allowed a weekend-leave after about two years. But letting him leave the hospital...

16. The Killer Pastor in Knutby

On the 10th of January 2004 a woman is shot to death in her bed and a man in a neighboring house is also shot and badly wounded in the small village of Knutby, east of Uppsala in Sweden. What...

15. Yara

8-year-old Yara comes to Sweden as a refugee without her parents, she is placed in the care of her uncle and his wife who had just recently fled to Sweden themselves. But what was supposed to be a safe place...

14. The triple homicide

On Tuesday May 11th, 2010, a man comes home from work. He enters the house he shares with his wife and her three children. He sees blood outside the entrance door, and when goes inside the house, it’s completely silent....

13. Isabel Eriksson and the bunker doctor part 2

Isabel Eriksson wakes up confused and doesn’t know where she is. Next to the bed she is lying on – sits a man. He is starring at her, and when she asks him where she is, he tells her that...

13. Isabel Eriksson and the bunker doctor part 1

Isabel Eriksson wakes up confused and doesn’t know where she is. Next to the bed she is lying on – sits a man. He is starring at her, and when she asks him where she is, he tells her that...

12. The shooting at Stureplan

In the early morning hours of December 4th, 1994, three men walks up to the entrance of a nightclub on Stureplan in the central parts of Stockholm and start shooting. Minutes later four young people are dead, over 20 people...

11. Tova Moberg part 2

19-year-old Tova Moberg was reported missing on Sunday May 14, 2017, by her mother. Two days later, her severely beaten body is found strapped to a wheelbarrow and dumped in a lake close to her ex-boyfriend’s house. Nobody knew the...

11. Tova Moberg part 1

19-year-old Tova Moberg was reported missing on Sunday May 14, 2017, by her mother. Two days later, her severely beaten body is found strapped to a wheelbarrow and dumped in a lake close to her ex-boyfriend’s house. Nobody knew the...

10. Helén and Jannica

10-year-old Helen Nilsson disappeared on March 20th, 1989 and was found dead six days later. She had been kept alive for several days. About five months later, on August 4th, 1989, the body of 26-year-old Jannica Ekblad is found. These...

9. The Mass Murder in Falun

On June 11, 1994 at 02:40 am a man named Mattias Flink walks out of a military facility dressed in combat gear, carrying an AK5, automatic rifle. A short while later, 7 people are dead. There were several warning signs...

8. Marina Johansson

Marina Johansson went missing the night between July 27th and July 28th, 2010, and there were a lot of speculation on what might have happened to her. Her boyfriend is suspected of murdering her, but there is no body. And...

7. The Stockholm Syndrome

On Thursday August 23rd, 1973 a man armed with a machinegun walks in to a bank in Stockholm, fires a round and takes four people hostage. The man demands that his friend Clark Olofsson is released from prison. Six days...

6. The fire in Gothenburg

On the night between October 29th and October 30th, 1998, the unthinkable happened. A fire started in the premises belonging to the Macedonian association, were a Disco for teenagers was taking place. 63 kids between the ages 12 and 20,...

5. Therese Johansson Rojo “Tess” Part 2

15-year-old Therese Johansson Rojo also called Tess is found dead in a wooded area close to where a party had taken place. The perpetrator turns out to be a 16-year-old boy, but he is not the only one who gets...

5. Therese Johansson Rojo “Tess” Part 1

15-year-old Therese Johansson Rojo also called Tess is found dead in a wooded area close to where a party had taken place. The perpetrator turns out to be a 16-year-old boy, but he is not the only one who gets...

4. Emma, Max & Saga

On Monday March 17th, 2008, Emma is home alone with her two kids, Saga who is 1,5 and Max who is 3. There is a knock on the door, but the person knocking has evil intentions. Ten days later Emma...

3. Kim Wall

On August 10th 2017 at about 7 pm independent journalist Kim Wall aged 30, went out on a submarine called UC3 Nautilus, with the Danish inventor Peter Madsen aged 46. She was supposed to write a portrait of him, and...

2. Engla & Pernilla

This is the case of Engla Höglund and Pernilla Hellgren. Pernilla was a 31 year old woman who was found murdered in Falun on June 4 2000, she had been beaten and strangled, and is found naked. The case remained...