Sture Bergwall resides in a psychiatric hospital for
the criminally batty three hours' drive arctic of Stockholm. A aerial
wire fence circles the building. CCTV cameras clue the movements of the
alfresco world. The attenuated windows – some of them barred – are
bedraggled with clay and blubbery with double-glazed glass. In
adjustment to visit, you charge admission through a assumption of
automatically locking doors and airing through an airport-style aegis
gate. You charge leave your adaptable buzz in a distinctively provided
locker and duke over your authorization in acknowledgment for an ID tag
and a agitation alarm. Two associates of staff, cutting artificial clogs
that cheep beyond the linoleum, escort you through the corridors.
In the visitors' room, Bergwall sits straight-backed on a baby red
chair, dim ablaze bright off rectangular-framed spectacles, his anxiety
buried hardly afar in blah socks and Velcro-strapped sandals. He has
been a accommodating in Säter hospital aback 1991 and although he is 62,
the beef on his easily is still blush and unworn, the result, one
imagines, of a abridgement of acknowledgment to sunlight. His beard –
what is larboard of it – is white.
Occasionally, he leans advanced to booty a accessory of chewing tobacco
from a dejected tin on the low table in advanced of him which he block
beneath his top lip. He smiles added than you adeptness expect,
anniversary time announcement a band of small, chicken teeth pushed
aback like a fence falling in on itself. Aback he laughs, his amateur
convulse acclaim in his dejected sweatshirt. The all-embracing
consequence is that of a kindly, hardly shy earlier man who is
acquisitive to please. Does he accept he is criminally insane? Bergwall
looks at me, smiles, and afresh all-overs his head. "No." What will he
do if he anytime gets out of here? "I'll aloof airing beeline advanced
and accumulate going."
Until about recently, Sture Bergwall was Sweden's best belled
consecutive killer. He had accepted to added than 30 murders and been
bedevilled of eight. He declared himself Thomas Quick. Assuming this
adverse adapt ego, he claimed during a assumption of assay sessions at
Säter over the years that he had maimed, raped and eaten the charcoal of
his victims, the youngest of whom was a nine-year-old babe whose
anatomy has never been found.
Swedish victims: Gry
Storvik Gry Storvik, 23. Murdered in Oslo, 1985. Quick was bedevilled
on confession, with no acknowledging argumentative evidence; indeed,
berry from her anatomy did not bout Quick’s DNA. Charges were waived
this September
During the 1990s, Thomas Quick accepted to one baffling annihilation
afterwards another, becoming, in the words of the ancestor of one of his
declared victims, "a apparition who ran through Scandinavia killing
added than 30 people". The barbarous assassin was a media acquaintance
and his bespectacled face stared out from advanced pages and television
screens. The newspapers declared him "the cannibal". Thomas Quick became
Sweden's actual own Hannibal Lecter.
But then, in 2001, he chock-full co-operating with the police. He
withdrew from accessible appearance and afflicted his name aback to the
one he was built-in with. In 2008, Hannes Råstam, one of Sweden's best
admired documentary-makers, became intrigued. He visited the aloft
Thomas Quick, now accepted as Sture Bergwall, at Säter, trawled through
the 50,000 pages of cloister documents, assay addendum and badge
interrogations and came to the amazing cessation that there was not a
distinct atom of abstruse affirmation for any of Bergwall's convictions.
There were no DNA traces, no annihilation weapons, no eyewitnesses –
annihilation afar from his confessions, abounding of which had been
accustomed aback he was beneath the admission of narcotic-strength
drugs. Confronted with Råstam's discoveries, Bergwall accepted the
unthinkable. He said he had bogus the absolute story.
The book annual this amazing annual has aloof been posthumously appear
in Sweden – Råstam died age-old 56 from blight of the pancreas and the
alarmist in January, the day afterwards the arrangement was finished. In
Thomas Quick: The Making of a Consecutive Killer, Råstam unpicks in
assiduous detail the way in which the acutely afflicted Quick was able
to accretion key advice surrounding anniversary case from psychiatrists,
badge admiral and lawyers, afore cobbling calm the circuitous and
abashed testimonies into a articular anecdotal that could angle up in
court.
Jenny Küttim, who was Råstam's researcher for three years on the story,
was afraid by what they found. "The affliction allotment is that because
of bodies not accomplishing their job, there are a lot of killers out
there who never got bent or faced justice," she says.
In a country that has become alike with the adamant fabulous detectives
of Henning Mankell and Scandinavian TV drama, the book has prompted a
accessible clamor and a administrative scandal. Bergwall has now been
acquitted of bristles of the eight murders. Two outstanding cases – one
for the annihilation of 15-year-old Charles Zelmanovits, one for the
bifold killing of a Dutch brace on a camping cruise – accept been
submitted for review. Bergwall's lawyer, Thomas Olsson, expects the
verdicts will be quashed and he will afresh alpha affronted for his
client's absolution from the psychiatric hospital in which he has been
confined for added than 20 years. According to Olsson, the aberrant case
of the consecutive analgesic who never was "raises austere questions
about the absolute acknowledged system".
But why would a man acknowledge to such barbarous and agitated crimes if
he was absolutely innocent? Aback in the visitors' allowance at Säter,
Sture Bergwall tries to explain. "It was about accepting to something,"
he says, speaking in Swedish through a translator. His articulation is
quiet but assertive and his thoughts are intelligently expressed. I am
the aboriginal British announcer he has anytime appear to. But it wasn't
too adamantine to get authority of him – although he entered Säter
afore the boundless use of the internet or adaptable phones, he now has
his own Twitter account.
"I was a actual abandoned actuality aback it all started," he continues.
"I was in a abode with agitated abyss and I noticed that the worse or
added agitated or austere the crime, the added absorption addition got
from the psychiatric personnel. I additionally capital to accord to that
group, to be an absorbing actuality in here."
Bergwall had consistently capital to amalgamate in. He was a boyish
misfit. He grew up in a baby boondocks in rural Sweden, one of seven
ancestors aloft according to austere Pentecostal beliefs. He describes
himself as a "creative and ambitious" child, absorbed in theatre and
writing. At 14, he realised he was gay. Ashamed by his sexuality, he hid
it from his acutely religious parents. He started experimenting with
drugs – amphetamine was his favourite – and, at the age of 19, was
accused of molesting boyish boys. Later, he approved to ache a aloft
lover. In 1990, he beggared a bounded coffer dressed in a Santa Claus
accouterments to augment his addiction. The abettor recognised him. He
was confined in Säter hospital for psychiatric treatment. Not a abiding
individual, then, but not a consecutive analgesic – at least, not yet.
As a adolescent man, Bergwall had consistently hankered afterwards
actuality taken actively and advised as an able person. For a while, he
capital to be a doctor and apprehend up on psychoanalysis. In Säter, he
began to realise he could use this adeptness to get the absorption and
accepting he craved. "What would you say," he asked his therapist one
day in 1992, "if I had done commodity absolutely bad?"
"That created a reaction, an interest," Bergwall says now. "I said:
'Maybe I murdered someone' and already I'd said that, there was no
activity back."
Swedish victims: Charles
Zelmanovits Charles Zelmanovits, 15. Abolished from arctic boondocks of
Piteå in 1976. His charcoal were activate in 1993. Quick was bedevilled
in 1994 via a confession, with no argumentative evidence
The aboriginal "murder" Thomas Quick accepted to was that of Johan
Asplund, the victim of one of the greatest bent mysteries in Swedish
history. Johan was an 11-year-old boy who went to academy one day in
November 1980 and disappeared. His anatomy has never been found. During a
alternation of assay sessions and, later, in badge interviews, Quick
said he had best Johan up alfresco academy and absorbed him into his car
afore demography him to a abounding breadth and raping him. Quick
claimed he had afraid and deadened the boy, afterwards burying Johan's
burst anatomy genitalia so that no one could acquisition them.
But admitting argumentative technicians analytic the locations declared
by Quick, no charcoal were anytime found. In fact, it took nine years
for prosecutors to cobble calm a case adjoin Quick – he was assuredly
bedevilled of Johan's annihilation in 2001. By that time, Quick had
already been activate accusable of seven added killings. Yet, abnormally
for a consecutive killer, there was no accessible modus operandi: Quick
asleep accouchement and adults, he raped men and women, he acclimated
an arrangement of weapons and committed murders in assorted genitalia of
Sweden and Norway.
In 1996, he accepted to the annihilation of nine-year-old Therese
Johannessen in Norway eight years previously. Quick initially said the
babe was albino and lived in a rural village, admitting the actuality
that she had aphotic amber beard and lived in a belfry block in a
heavily urbanised area.
"He got aught right," Bergwall's lawyer, Thomas Olsson, tells me
afterwards in the car on the way aback from Säter. "He declared a
absolutely altered bearings in all aspects but instead of accepting
that, they went on with 15 fresh interviews."
Olsson, who was brought in to represent Sture Bergwall afterwards he
abandoned his confessions, has a acceptability for demography on
difficult cases. With his swept-back hair, bristled face and
chain-smoking habit, he is absolutely the affectionate of actuality one
can brainstorm arena the role of a advancement Scandinavian advocate in a
film. He drives too fast in a car broadcast with abandoned coffee cups.
Although he isn't religious, his wife has insisted he adhere a cord of
chaplet chaplet from his rear-view mirror as a admonition to apathetic
down.
Does Olsson accept Bergwall is dangerous? He snorts. "No! Not at all."
Does he like him? "I don't like bodies too abundant in general," he says
afterwards a pause. "But, of course, if you absorb so abundant time
with a client, you consistently see the actuality abaft the headlines.
It all starts with a little boy beneath a Christmas tree, arena with
toys and it ends up actual tragic. About forth the line, anybody is a
victim."
After "confessing" to the annihilation of Therese Johannessen, Quick was
apprenticed to Norway. The TV cameras followed his every move. He was
rapidly acceptable one of the best acclaimed men in Scandinavia and
revelled in the attention. Aback Quick claimed he had befuddled
Therese's anatomy genitalia in a adjacent lake, the Norwegian
authorities spent seven weeks' clarification it. They activate nothing.
Aback a 0.5mm "bone fragment" was apparent in abutting woodland, it
afterwards affronted out to be a broiled allotment of wood. Admitting
this, Quick was convicted.
Even added curiously, he appeared to accept a cast-iron annual for some
of his crimes. Although he accepted to killing a boyish boy in 1964 at
the age of 14, it affronted out that several assemblage could bethink
seeing him at angelic accord with his non-identical accompanying sister,
some 250 afar away. In fact, there was a photograph assuming him there.
Aback he claimed albatross for the killing of a 23-year-old woman in
Norway in 1985, he said he had sex with her admitting his declared
animal alternative for men. The badge had activate traces of abettor but
a consecutive DNA assay disqualified out the achievability that it
belonged to Thomas Quick. And yet the courts already afresh activate him
accusable "beyond all reasonable doubt".
Swedish
victim: Yenon Levi Yenon Levi, 24. An Israeli tourist, asleep while
biking in Dalarna in 1988. Quick was bedevilled in 1997, afterwards
argumentative affirmation but on statements that affiliated facts not
appear publicly. Charges were waived in 2010
Defenders of the verdicts acicular out that, in interview, Quick had
appear cogent pieces of advice from anniversary of the crimes that alone
the analgesic would know. Still today, there are those who robustly
avert the badge investigations, including absolute cloister adjudicator
Göran Lambertz, who conducted a week-long assay of the Quick case in
2006 in his antecedent role as advocate accepted and activate it all to
be aloft board.
"There is no DNA nor fingerprints and [the evidence] is not as able as
it could be," says Lambertz aback we meet. "What there is is aggregate
he [Quick] said aback afresh that array of fits in. He gave a lot of
facts about two murders in accurate [Johannessen and Zelmanovits] that
fit so able-bodied with what absolutely happened and what affectionate
of accouchement these two were."
But according to Bergwall, a lot of the advice was already in the
accessible domain: aboriginal on in his confessional spree, he still had
approved leaves of absence from the hospital.
"I'd go to the Royal Library in Stockholm on day absolution and
apprehend up on old cases on the bi-weekly microfiches," he explains.
Bergwall acclaimed bottomward the cogent capacity in ancillary letters –
the accession of the body, the specifics of the landscape, the victim's
accouterment – which he would afterwards "reveal" in assay as Thomas
Quick. His therapist (who saw him for a minimum of three 90-minute
sessions anniversary week) would acclaim him for his courage in digging
abysmal into his remembered past. The badge would be captivated at the
actualization of a aboveboard doubtable for a ahead baffling crime. On
at atomic two occasions, Quick was aureate by clandestine jet to booty
allotment in reconstructions at annihilation sites. All the time, Quick
was basking in the reflected glory, like a accepted child.
"I didn't charge to do abundant to acquaint the stories," he says.
"Usually a distinct bi-weekly commodity would be enough. The blow of the
advice consistently came during the interrogations from the police,
therapists or altered bodies on the investigations team. I knew I aloof
had to accept to pay attention."
In all of his assay sessions and the afterwards badge reconstructions,
Bergwall was heavily benumbed on a cocktail of benzodiazepines. Medical
annal appearance he was actuality accustomed tablets every brace of
hours – generally up to 20mg of diazepam, abundant to beating some
bodies out cold. A aerial dosage accustomed to those with poor actuation
ascendancy can advance to a absolution of inhibitions and could explain
why Bergwall was able to ad-lib such a aberrant annual of cannibalism,
abduction and murder. At the time, he remembers actuality absorbed by
depictions of fabulous consecutive killers – astonishingly, he was able
to borrow a archetype of Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho from the
hospital library.
"The drugs were actual important," says Bergwall. "I had chargeless
admission to them and I relied on them to get me into a action area I
could acquaint belief and accomplish them up."
What aftereffect did the drugs accept on him?
"A lot happened axial of me. I'd get high, I'd get a bang and afresh I'd
accept lots of fantasies. My acuteness would run wild. In one sense,
they gave me a lot of creativity. It was like a abandoned circle. The
added I told, the added absorption I got from the therapists and the
badge and the anamnesis experts and that meant I additionally got added
drugs."
There was a bunch of bodies about Quick, abnormally declared by those I
allocution to as actuality affiliated to "a cult", "a travelling circus"
and "a religious camp that did not acceptable agnostic beliefs". The
aforementioned badge officer, therapist, prosecuting and defence
advocate dealt with anniversary of his adventures through the years.
Alike the aforementioned adenoids dog, Zampo, was acclimated to attract
anniversary "murder" site.
"During the advance of the investigation, Quick mentioned at atomic 24
altered places in Sweden and Norway area he had committed murders,
handled asleep bodies or larboard anatomy parts," says Leyla Belle
Drake, who was Hannes Råstam's arcane agent. "Zampo apparent for animal
charcoal 45 times at those 24 locations. Not a distinct trace of claret
or anatomy genitalia was anytime found. The dog is aloof as bad as the
blow of them."
Swedish victims: Trine Jensen Trine
Jensen, 17. Activate asleep alfresco Oslo in 1981. Quick was bedevilled
in 2000. Charges were waived in September this year
The approach this baddest accumulation propounded was that the
accommodating had repressed acutely alarming memories, which resurfaced
in the anatomy of dream-like sequences that could generally be blowzy
with inconsistencies. It was alone through afresh assay sessions with
trusted confidants and the administering of abstracted drugs that the
absolute anecdotal could emerge.
For Jenny Küttim, this is one of the best atrocious elements of the accomplished aberrant affair.
"He was a brainy accommodating in a brainy hospital in Säter," says
Küttim, her aseptic acrimony about tangible. "He was the alone one who
didn't accept a job. The added bodies about him were the ones who were
meant to be adage 'No, we don't accept you.' In that sense, you cannot
accusation Sture Bergwall, because a lot of bodies about him should
accept said no. At the aforementioned time, he's additionally to
accusation because he's aching a lot of bodies by cogent these stories."
Prime amid those were the victims' admired ones, who had their
affliction apparent in public, their hopes aloft by a fantasist and
afresh abject by able incompetence. Björn Asplund is one of them: the
ancestor of the missing 11-year-old boy who was the accountable of
Quick's aboriginal confession. Asplund, 65, lives on a houseboat
declared Viking, affronted to a abiding ballast on Basin Mälaren in
axial Stockholm. Inside, a coffee pot boils on the stove in a galley
kitchen and the baiter rocks acclaim from ancillary to ancillary with
anniversary animation of the tide. On the coffer aloft the dining table
area we sit hangs a atramentous and white photograph of Johan: a
animated boy with a pudding-bowl haircut.
"He was actual accepted in school, aloof a abundant kid," says Asplund.
"His dream was to become a farmer." Asplund and his ex-wife, Anna-Clara
(the brace afar aback Johan was three years old), were told in 1993 that
a brainy accommodating they had never met had accepted to the abduction
and annihilation of their son. From the beginning, neither of them
believed it.
"Not for abounding reasons," says Asplund, who works for a brainy bloom
charity. "In about all cases area the boyish is the victim, it is
addition who has a abutting affiliation to the boyish who is the
perpetrator."
Thomas Quick was alien to them. In fact, the Asplunds were assertive
they knew who did it: an ex-partner of Anna-Clara who capital to seek
animus for the alienation of their relationship. There was abundant
amplified affirmation adjoin this doubtable for the Asplunds to
accompany a clandestine case adjoin him. The ex-partner was bedevilled
to two years in bastille for kidnapping but freed on address a year
later. Björn Asplund, however, charcoal assertive of this man's guilt.
"It bogus me affronted aback Thomas Quick accepted because, from that
point, I realised that the accomplished case was bankrupt adjoin the
ex-partner," he says. That it afresh took seven continued years for
Quick to anatomy a articular arrangement of contest alone accepted the
couple's suspicions: "For every abstaining actuality in this country, it
charge accept been accessible that this guy was not trustworthy."
During the investigation, Asplund believes it was accessible that Quick
was accepting his advice from the police. "We activate out that
aggregate we would acquaint them would appear out a few weeks afterwards
in his assay sessions," he says.
As an example, he believability to the actuality that Johan had a
appropriate birthmark on his appropriate buttock that alone his parents
knew about. In aboriginal interviews, Quick claimed alone that Johan had
some ambiguous marks or scars on the advanced of his stomach, possibly
from surgery. The badge asked the Asplunds if Johan had any such scars.
For a while, they banned to be specific because of their suspicions that
the advice would accomplish its way aback to Quick.
"Then they threatened to booty Anna-Clara to cloister for absorption a
murderer," Asplund recalls. "So she drew a annual of the birthmark."
Shortly afterwards, Quick "remembered" the mark in therapy. Indeed, for
every annihilation he accepted to, Quick was subjected to an boilerplate
of 10-15 badge interviews. Aback he claimed he had asleep an Israeli
backpacker, Yenon Levi, in the Dalarna dupe in 1988, Quick was asked
afresh what annihilation weapon he had used. In interviews, he mentioned
a camping axe, a burrow and a carjack amid added items afore assuredly
accession on the "right" object: a board club. In court, Quick's
averseness was glossed over: it was declared artlessly that he had
accurately articular the annihilation weapon.
For the victims' families, the abiding attributes of anniversary
analysis was acutely distressing. Asplund, whose activity had already
been burst already by his son's disappearance, was affected yet afresh
to absterge up aching memories and afresh to accept to Quick's alarming
affidavit in court. Quick claimed he ate Johan's fingers; that he cut
off the child's arch and kicked it like a football.
Asplund looks away, takes a annoyance of his roll-up cigarette. "Sitting
there alert to that, alike if you knew it wasn't accurate …" he says.
"It was an abominable situation."
Swedish victims
Janni and Marinus Stegehuis, 34, 39. Dutch brace who were activate
stabbed to afterlife in a covering in arctic Sweden in 1984. Quick gave
badge facts that afresh had not been bogus public
With his son asleep and the analgesic still at large, does Asplund feel
betrayed? He answers with addition question: "What can you do about it? I
don't anticipate actuality affronted will advice me. Whatever happens,
you accept to focus on the approaching and go forward. You accept to
accomplish the accommodation about whether you appetite to alive or not.
And if the best is to live, you accept to alive your abounding life.
You can't absorb it sitting in the corner, cerebration about what
happened."
Back in Säter hospital, I ask Sture whether he anticipation about the
appulse his adventures adeptness be accepting on the victims' families.
"Yes. I did anticipate of them, but I didn't. In a way, I was ruthless,
but that was additionally one of the furnishings of the benzo
[benzodiazepine]. It meant I could avoid any compassion."
Did he apperceive he was lying? "This is the best difficult allotment to
explain. There was an acquaintance that it was lies. At the
aforementioned time, I was active in this role as Thomas Quick and in
this role, I could balloon that awareness. During the Thomas Quick
years, I approved to adhere myself. I banged my arch adjoin the coffer
until it bled. In the nights, I would deathwatch up agreeable 'No!'
[this was acclaimed in the hospital's medical records]. In the average
of the nights, there was an acquaintance that it was all accomplish
accept and afresh aback I woke up, I got a dosage of benzo and I could
balloon it and advance it aside."
In 2001, a fresh analytic administrator at Säter advised Quick's medical
records. He was abashed to ascertain the dosage and Quick's
accumulation of drugs bound dwindled. Already he chock-full demography
them, he chock-full confessing. Instead, he appear to journalists that
he would no best co-operate with the badge and withdrew from accessible
view. He afresh kept his blackout for seven years until Hannes Råstam
tracked him down.
"Hannes was a actual acute actuality with an adeptness to absolutely
accept to added bodies and additionally to share," says Bergwall, for
the aboriginal time assuming some baby adumbration of emotion. "I
bethink the third time we met, Hannes had apparent the videotapes of the
badge reconstructions and he said: 'I can see you're aerial on drugs.'
It was the aboriginal time that I bethink thinking: 'Something's
activity to happen.' I felt: 'Yes! Something's activity to change' and I
was accessible to confess.
"It was so liberating to assuredly acquaint the accuracy and to
apperceive that I didn't accept annihilation to abhorrence aback it was
the truth."
Not anybody believes Sture Bergwall is the victim of one of the grossest
miscarriages of amends in contempo times. There are those who point out
that he has a clue almanac of lying assuredly and manipulating people. I
am aware, throughout my chat with him, that Bergwall is accomplished at
actuality able to mirror aback what addition best wants to hear.
Judge Göran Lambertz cautions adjoin "rushing to conclusions". He
believes that in the accumulation of apocryphal capacity Bergwall gave
to police, there adeptness still be some elements of truth. This
position has bogus him acutely abhorred in assertive genitalia of
Swedish society, abnormally with those – like Thomas Olsson and Jenny
Küttim – who are advancement for Bergwall's release.
"A lot of bodies accept bogus their careers on the Thomas Quick case," says Küttim. "So today they accept a lot to lose."
Lambertz is dismissive aback I put this to him. "Oh yes, I'm a hated
man," he says blithely. "I anticipate Sture Bergwall is bluffing us now,
that's what I think. I don't anticipate he's harmless. He may be a nice
old man, I don't know, but the psychiatrists up there say he is still
dangerous."
And what if Bergwall is acquitted of all these murders by the courts?
Will Lambertz still be sceptical? Will he apologise for administering a
assay six years ago into the Quick case which activate no accountability
with the badge investigation?
"It could be appropriate [to absolve him], it could be all wrong. It
could be about in the middle, I don't know. But if you ask me what I
think, I would anticipate it is added amiss than right."
In Säter, our time is advancing to a close. Bergwall rises and waits
patiently to be taken aback to his area admiral by the two associates of
staff. Aback he has gone, what strikes me best about him is his absence
of personality. He leaves no able impression. It is altogether
possible, of course, that afterwards 21 years of incarceration and
biologic addiction, he no best has abundant of an abstraction of who he
is.
Outside, continuing in the algid blah afternoon and attractive up to the
aboriginal attic of the hospital building, I see Bergwall at the
window. He smiles, gives a baby beachcomber and afresh the consecutive
analgesic who never was is led away. All that is larboard abaft is the
ablaze reflected on the bottle and the caliginosity where, a moment ago,
he stood.
THOMAS QUICK Chronology of a consecutive confessor
1950 Sture Bergwall built-in in abreast Falun, Sweden.
1991 Beneath affected name Thomas Quick, he is confined in Säter
psychiatric hospital afterwards annexation a coffer and actuality
accused of molesting boys.
1992 Quick "confesses" to the annihilation of 11-year-old Johan Asplund,
who had abolished afterwards trace 12 years previously. At the time, it
was one of the best acclaimed bent mysteries in Sweden.
1993-96 Quick confesses to several added murders, including that of
nine-year-old Therese Johannessen in Norway. He is bedevilled of the
killing of 15-year-old Charles Zelmanovits, admitting there actuality no
acknowledging evidence.
1996-97 Quick is taken to Norway as allotment of a badge about-face to
actuate what happened to Therese Johannessen. Aback he claims he threw
her charcoal in a adjacent lake, the basin is drained. Annihilation is
found. Suspected "bone fragments" afterwards about-face out to be
broiled $.25 of wood.
1998 Quick is bedevilled of Therese's murder.
1999 Quick has by now accepted to 25 murders and been bedevilled of five.
2000 Quick is activate accusable of the annihilation of two heterosexual
women. Unusually for a consecutive killer, he seems to accept no modus
operandi. Although he claims he had sex with one of the women, DNA tests
prove the abettor is not his.
2001 Quick is activate accusable of the annihilation of Johan Asplund –
his eighth conviction. It has taken nine years for the case to appear to
trial. There is no DNA affirmation or beholder account. Johan's
charcoal are still undiscovered. Doubts activate to apparent in the
Swedish media about Quick's credibility. In November 2001, Quick comes
off his circadian decree of drugs and stops co-operating with police.
There are no added confessions.
2002 Quick changes name aback to Sture Bergwall.
2008 Documentary-maker Hannes Råstam visits Bergwall in Säter and assets
his trust. Bergwall tells him his adventures accept been lies, bogus in
adjustment to get absorption from medical staff.
2011 Bergwall is acquitted of two murders, including that of Therese Johannessen.
2012 Bergwall is acquitted of three added murders, including that of
Johan Asplund. The actual three aesthetics are currently beneath assay
and are additionally accepted to be quashed. ED
