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It is shortly before eight o’clock in the morning on October 19, 2004, and the street lights on Åsgatan in Linköping have just gone out when an eight-year-old boy walks home on his way to school.
Suddenly he is stabbed in the back, with great force, many times. Die there on the ground.
A 56-year-old woman who goes to work is also attacked later, with violence and many blows. Then the assailant drops the knife on the spot and leaves. The woman also dies a moment later.
At a newsstand outside a nearby Ica store, the murderer’s bloody hat and bloody fingerprints are found.
On June 9, 2020, a 37-year-old man was arrested in Linköping for the murder, after police in a pilot study hired genealogists and searched genealogical databases using traces of the man’s DNA. The man admits that he murdered the child and the woman, and is later sentenced by Linköping District Court to forensic psychiatric care for the double murder.
The police investigation into the double murder lasted 16 years and is the largest in Sweden after the Palme investigation.
