Documented investigations presented factually, with solved and unresolved cases separated for easier browsing.
Peter Mangs was convicted of two murders and eight attempted murders after a series of Malmö shootings between 2003 and 2010. His life sentence became final after Sweden's Supreme Court refused leave to appeal.
Open case file →Lotta Rudholm, 41, died after an attack by her former boyfriend in Bromma in June 2016. He was convicted of murder; the Court of Appeal set the sentence at 18 years and the Supreme Court did not grant review.
Open case file →Fifteen-year-old Therese Johansson Rojo was murdered in Stureby, Stockholm, in June 2009. Two juvenile defendants were convicted; the Svea Court of Appeal upheld the convictions and Sweden's Supreme Court later declined review.
Open case file →Two 1989 murders in southern Sweden remained unsolved for years before a renewed DNA inquiry led to Ulf Olsson, who was convicted of both killings.
Open case file →Seven people were killed and three others wounded in Falun on June 11, 1994. Army officer Mattias Flink was convicted of seven murders and three attempted murders; his life term was later fixed at 30 years and he was conditionally released in 2014.
Open case file →Nineteen-year-old Tova Moberg was murdered in Hälsingland in 2017. Her former boyfriend was convicted, and his life sentence became final after Supreme Court review was denied in 2018.
Open case file →Solved / AdjudicatedFourteen-year-old John Hron was murdered near Kode in 1995 by youths with neo-Nazi ties. Four were convicted, including two for murder.
Read case file →Solved / AdjudicatedEight-year-old Mohamad Ammouri and 56-year-old Anna-Lena Svensson were murdered in 2004. DNA genealogy helped identify Daniel Nyqvist sixteen years later.
Read case file →Solved / AdjudicatedSeventeen-year-old Wilma Andersson disappeared in Uddevalla in 2019. Her former boyfriend was convicted of murder, with the final sentence fixed at 18 years.
Read case file →Solved / AdjudicatedFadime Sahindal was murdered in Uppsala in 2002 after publicly speaking about honor-related violence. Her father was convicted and initially sentenced to life imprisonment.
Read case file →Solved / AdjudicatedMax and Saga were killed in their Arboga home in 2008 while their mother survived an attempted murder. Christine Schürrer was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Read case file →Solved / AdjudicatedFive people were killed on Drottninggatan in 2017. Rakhmat Akilov was convicted of terrorism through murder and attempted murder and received life imprisonment.
Read case file →SolvedThe 2008 disappearance of Engla Höglund led investigators to Anders Eklund and a DNA link to the unsolved 2000 murder of Pernilla Hellgren. Eklund was convicted of both murders and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Read case file →SolvedAfter a 1999 bank robbery in Kisa, police officers Olle Borén and Robert Karlström were murdered near Malexander. Three men were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Read case file →SolvedSeventeen-year-old Lisa Holm disappeared after leaving her summer job in June 2015. Forensic evidence led to a murder conviction and life sentence.
Read case file →SolvedSwedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh was attacked in a Stockholm department store in September 2003. Mijailo Mijailovic was convicted of murder and ultimately sentenced to life by the Supreme Court.
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SolvedJohn Ausonius, known as the “Laser Man,” carried out a series of racist shootings in Sweden in 1991–1992 and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
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SolvedThe 2004 Knutby case involved the murder of Alexandra Fossmo and the attempted murder of a neighbor. Text messages and coercive control were central to the prosecution.
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