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One of the men must have murdered the couple in Vallentuna. But both deny and blame the other. Will the brutal double murder be another of the so-called “Lindome cases”, where both are free because it is not possible to identify the culprit?
The couple was found murdered at their home in Vallentuna in January, and two men are charged. Stock Photography.
It took several long interrogations with the men before they began to open up and tell their respective versions of what happened in the Vallentuna house, that day in mid-January of this year.
The men had gone there to rob the 52-year-old woman and the 61-year-old man who lived there, so far they agree. It was known in the area that the 61-year-old man made a lot of money from the sale of a farm, information that also reached the two men. But word for word when it comes to how he ended up with the brutally murdered woman and man.
One of the men now charged, a 28-year-old, says that after the robbery is over, he leaves the house and waits for his partner, a 26-year-old who is still inside. It takes a while, and suddenly the 28-year-old hears a bang. Then the 26-year-old comes out and it is clear that he killed the couple.
“I mean the robbery, it was something we did. And there are always risks with the crimes he commits. But here we are also talking about sudden murders. It was nothing that I had not thought of or anticipated,” says the 28-year-old in one of the interrogations.
The 26-year-old, for his part, assures that during the robbery he watches over the woman in the bedroom of the house, when he hears a noise from inside the kitchen where the 28-year-old is with the 61-year-old. 26-year-old goes there and sees that the man killed the 61-year-old man. So the man also kills the woman. According to the 26-year-old, the 28-year-old said he “went black” when the 61-year-old wouldn’t say where the money was.
The lawsuit also states that the 26-year-old IThe 28-year-old caused the death of the couple. Technical evidence cannot clarify who did what inside the house.
– Obviously it’s a problem. It is impossible to escape. But I don’t want to precede the hearing itself. We’ll see what is said then, how evidence is presented and received, and if further explanation will be given, says prosecutor Jenny Karlsson.
The situation is similar to a case that was recently decided in the Court of Appeal and that upset many. There, two men were acquitted of the murder of a 70-year-old man in Markaryd, as it was not considered certain that two perpetrators had committed the crime. Thus, according to the Court of Appeals, it could not be ruled out that one of them could be really innocent.
It is also possible to compare it with the Lindome case, a case that is often referred to in this type of crime. The case concerns an 89-year-old man who was murdered in his home in 1990. In short, two men broke into the victim’s home and killed him with a frying pan. Both men blamed each other and since it was not possible to say who killed the 89-year-old man, they both went free.
In the Lindome case, however, the prosecutor had not chosen to prosecute the men for committing the act “together and in consultation,” but instead singled out one as the murderer and the other as an accomplice.
In the current Vallentuna case, prosecutor Jenny Karlsson claims that the double murder took place “together and by consensus.” This, among other things, in reference to the fact that there has been careful preparation and that the perpetrators launched into violence when they thought they were going to arm themselves.
– You also bring plastic wrap to use torture and you bring handcuffs, so you put yourself to violence, says Jenny Karlsson.
Furthermore, he believes that various things suggest that there are two different perpetrators of the two different murders.
– They are, for example, the approaches, which are completely different, says Karlsson.
The man was stabbed to death, while the woman was suffocated to death.
The main hearing will begin on Monday and is expected to last until mid-December.
The double murder in Vallentuna
On January 15, 2020, a whistleblower calls the police for being concerned about her friend, whom she has not been able to locate for several days. When the police arrive at the Vallentuna house where the friend lives with a 61-year-old man, the patrol finds the two murdered. The murder is suspected to have taken place a few days earlier.
The police began a survey of the victims, and soon the suspicions were directed at two men in the area, aged 26 and 28. Police can see that on the morning of Saturday, January 11, there were two transfers from the victims’ bank accounts to one of the men now charged. Later in the evening, a new login was made to the 61-year-old’s bank account, which could have been placed in one of the defendants’ homes. In addition, witnesses have seen the same car owned by one of the defendants in the vicinity of the couple’s home.
On November 4, the men were charged with aggravated robbery and two murders. Both admit they were in the house to rob the couple, but deny the murders.
