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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 ...

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 w...

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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 hos...

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 real...

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 real...

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 real...

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 truecrimesweden@gmail.com Home...

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 prankin...

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 robbe...

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 open...

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,...

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 wh...

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 al...

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 al...

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 ...

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 f...

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 t...

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 o...

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 Octob...

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 fo...

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 ...

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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 l...

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 finger...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 Blood...

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 le...

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 seemed t...

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 saf...

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...

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 she is in a ...

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 she is in a ...

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 a...

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-boy...

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-boy...

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...

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 sev...

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 ...

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 fro...

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....

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...

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...

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 wakes...

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 portr...

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 cas...