This program contains scenes of a graphic nature.
We're not assuming anything, just focusing on finding the girl.
We thought we had a good chance of finding her by Monday evening.
It was the focus of everyone in the whole town - where is Wilma?
Police command center.
I was driving north on the E6 and there's a man dressed all in black
on the E6 north of Ljungskile, maybe something to look into?
There had been some problems with young men in Uddevalla.
Wilma left the apartment, probably to meet some guys in Gothenburg.
We brought in cadaver dogs.
The dogs indicate by barking.
We found some strange tire tracks that went down to the water.
That gave rise to some suspicions, of course.
I would have had to break the laws of physics to be guilty of this.
He knows where she is, or where she isn't.
THE MURDER OF WILMA
- Hello, I'm calling from the police. - Okay.
Hello. Wilma Andersson's father called us.
He's very worried about his daughter.
- She's not answering his calls. - Okay.
Would you happen to know where she is?
She's my ex, we broke up Thursday. I don't know where she is.
- No word from her since Thursday? - No.
Okay. I understand.
Her phone is turned off. But she's not at your place.
No. I've deleted her number, actually.
You haven't heard anything since Thursday, no idea where she went?
We had a big fight, we both cried a little and then she left.
And you haven't heard anything since.
Now I know she's not there, so we'll have to keep looking.
On November 17th, 2019,
Uddevalla police get a report that Wilma Andersson, 17, is missing.
Anette Timm Preinfalk is appointed lead investigator.
Her family tried to reach her on Friday, the 15th.
She had a dentist appointment. The dentist called Wilma's father,
wondering where she was.
That's when they started looking for her, wondering where she could be.
On November 16, her father was going to the apartment
where Wilma lives with her boyfriend.
He rang the bell and knocked but no one opened the door.
But he looks through the mail slot
and thinks it looked like someone is home.
But no one opens the door.
I was off that weekend,
when Wilma's sister started posting on social media.
We now have a big group on Facebook, in most cities.
Messages like "help find my sister," "my sister is missing," appeared.
You see that often on social media, that someone's gone missing.
I didn't know how seriously to take it.
It was a young girl who could have left home for different reasons.
Wilma went missing on the 14th of November.
Or that was the last contact with her, November 14, around 5 pm.
We're talking about a young girl of 17, very active on social media.
She's someone who keeps in touch, and suddenly no one can reach her.
When we couldn't reach Wilma,
I tried to call her, no answer.
So I called Tishko.
I got a text message back.
When I read the text I felt there was something really wrong.
So we went to the apartment, again.
We asked if we could come in, and he said yes.
He was behaving very strangely.
He had a blanket around him.
When they meet Tishko, he seems distracted.
He seems sluggish, like he's on something.
He's out of it, somehow.
He had a history of abusing cannabis. It's hard to say how serious it was.
Initially, Tishko says they fought.
And that Wilma left the apartment.
She left. She probably left to go meet some guys in Gothenburg.
Among other things. Nothing more.
He says he stayed home, didn't leave the apartment. He has no information.
There is a story about Wilma from before.
Wilma went up to the attic in their building
and was going to kill herself.
But Tishko saved her as she was about to hang herself.
- This is - from the police. - Hello.
I've spoken with Wilma's mother.
She said that once when you'd broken up,
Wilma tried to hang herself.
Yes. I called her father, and he came and got her.
Could you go and check the attic to make sure she's not there again?
Yeah, I can do that. But I don't think she...
- She was angry when she left. - She was angry.
Did she take her things, or just her phone when she left?
She took her handbag, clothing, makeup...
And her telephone. She took everything with her.
But I could carry them.
I see.
What about her friends?
We've called around to them, to - for example.
There was someone in Uddevalla and one in Stenungsund.
But she didn't have anyone else there?
- No, she didn't. - No.
There was some guy she was threatening me with.
She probably had friends her parents didn't know about.
We'll hope for that. Thanks for your help, for now.
- Thanks. - Thanks, bye.
Voluntary organizations such as Missing People and FIKK
are helping police in the search and are very committed.
Huge numbers of people have come to help. There's a lot happening.
I first thought that this was a young girl who'd just run off.
She'd just not been in touch. That's the information we had.
We thought we had a good chance of finding her by Monday evening.
I put myself in her parents' shoes, so of course I'm here to help search.
It's a fantastic turnout in so many ways.
For many Uddevalla residents, it's almost been a calling to come here.
Hundreds of volunteers came to look for this girl.
We had the police, the military,
volunteer organizations and religious groups, everyone working together.
It was the sole focus of the whole town - where could Wilma be.
There are many reasons why it's important to find her.
Mostly for her family, but also for the ongoing investigation.
We're not assuming anything, just focusing on finding the girl.
The voluntary organization FIKK says
they'll be searching until midnight.
HUNDREDS OF VOLUNTEERS SEARCH THE WOODS FOR CLUES
Wilma was very heedless.
Creative, stubborn. She had a strong will.
A wonderful girl with a heart in the right place.
Wilma liked to work out, be with her friends, paint.
Home decor... she was very creative.
She loved to talk. She could talk without stop for hours.
She would laugh a lot and just fool around.
But she could also be serious.
We could talk about just about anything.
Wilma has been living with Tishko, her boyfriend, in Uddevalla.
When Wilma got together with Tishko, she was 15 and he was 20.
After a while, she moved in with him and his parents.
About a year later, Tishko got this apartment.
Wilma moved in with him there, that's where they live.
The police interview Wilma's friends
to find out if there's a reason she may have wanted to disappear.
We find out that Wilma broke up with Tishko.
We had heard the other way around, that it was Tishko that ended it.
But now we hear that she decided to end it.
It was actually on the 13th
that she broke up with him, as we found out.
And it was the 14th when everyone lost contact with her.
What was so unusual for Wilma was
that no one had heard a thing from her.
She was always in touch with people,
either a friend or her sister, when she and Tishko had been fighting.
The police talk to Tishko again
to see if anything new has turned up.
He continues to stick to his story.
He doesn't know where Wilma is.
And he has been in the apartment since Thursday, November 14th.
But late in the evening on that Thursday,
emergency services in Uddevalla receive calls
from worried motorists.
Police command center
I was driving north on the E6. There's a man dressed all in black,
on foot, north of Ljungskile. Maybe something to look into?
He didn't look entirely normal, his arms were sticking straight out.
- It didn't look right. - Okay.
- Thanks, bye. - Goodbye.
A police patrol is ordered to go pick up the man.
We've picked up - here on the highway.
We're driving him to Uddevalla. Just getting his ID number.
I get a phone call from a colleague
who tells me that they checked out a guy walking on the E6
on Thursday evening, actually.
This was the boyfriend of the missing Wilma.
The police colleague describes his observations from November 14.
The night they picked up Wilma's boyfriend on the E6.
He says he had been in a fight with some immigrant youths.
His clothes were dirty, he seemed confused and in shock.
There had been trouble in Uddevalla with young men, among others.
They were around the same age as Tishko.
In the interview, Tishko tells the police officer
that he was upset and sad after the fight in Uddevalla.
So he'd taken the train to a relative in Gothenburg.
But he changed his mind on the way and got off in Ljungskile.
Then he started walked along the E6 back towards Uddevalla.
When the police learn of his strange behavior on the E6,
they are even more interested in finding out what actually happened
between Wilma and Tishko the night she went missing.
Neighbors noticed that something had happened up there
in Tishko and Wilma's apartment on the 14th. They heard fighting.
Several neighbors heard fighting from the apartment.
One of them was going up to see what was happening, but stopped.
This neighbor heard a blood-curdling scream.
And then in the next second, it was quiet.
The neighbor thinks, "Ah well, now the fight is over."
The search for Wilma is a massive effort.
They look for anything that can tell where she is and what happened.
We're in an area right outside of Uddevalla.
We've searched here several times.
We've found some strange tire tracks that went down to the water.
This led to some suspicions, of course, about why they were there.
We looked in the hills around here.
We tried to get down to the water, using the best search methods.
We've had divers go down here.
We've also had underwater drones scan the bottom.
We now deem this area as having been fully searched.
Both over and under the water.
Police continue to try to understand Tishko and Wilma's relationship.
Interviews reveal that it was not uncomplicated.
Wilma's sister has some thoughts about Tishko.
The first issue is that he's older than Wilma.
And she finds him very controlling.
What Wilma should do, and what she should wear...
Wilma would ask, "Tishko, can I wear this?"
And he would have opinions about it. He also controlled where she went.
She was uncomfortable that he was always checking up on her.
Wilma became more and more isolated.
She stopped working out.
She'd always enjoyed going to the gym.
And then she dropped out of school.
Wilma, who'd always been so social, was more and more alone.
At the end, it felt like Wilma was...
She was somehow much stronger. And was ready to leave Tishko.
In the phone interview with Tishko when Wilma was reported missing,
he says he's been in the apartment since she left on November 14th.
But both the report from when he was picked up on the E6
and the analysis of his mobile phone point to something else.
The mapping of Tishko's movements starts on the 14th.
A little earlier that afternoon, we can see him shopping at Netto.
After that, he goes home to his apartment.
We can follow that on his phone. After that, he's home.
Until he leaves home at 6:30 pm.
What the neighbor hears happens somewhere in between.
We know that Wilma had a last contact with her mother after 5 pm.
So it's a question of about an hour and a half,
between that last conversation with her mother until she leaves at 6:30.
The question is, did Wilma leave the apartment before Tishko?
Or did they leave together?
Or could it be that she never left the apartment?
From mapping Tishko's movements,
police can see that after Tishko arrives home around 10:30
he was actually home the rest of the weekend.
He turned down offers of work both for Saturday and Sunday.
But Monday he's offered a job using a company car... and accepts it.
We tried to map Tishko's movements as much as possible.
We knew he was working Monday the 18th.
So we found out from his employer what car he had used.
We inspected the car, which had a GPS.
We thought it was strange that he was home in his apartment
several times during his shift.
So we could follow how he had driven to his client, and then back home.
Several times.
Tishko's movements revealed several strange circumstances.
Why did he visit his apartment so many times on Monday?
Why did he lie to police and say he was home all Thursday evening?
Why was he out walking on the highway?
What is he hiding?
There's too much that doesn't match up.
We think he knows what happened.
He knows where she is, or where she isn't.
Police fear that the missing Wilma has been the victim of a crime.
A man was arrested today on suspicion of murder.
When Tishko was arrested, he was lying on the living room sofa.
The arrest was without incident.
He left with the officers. It was an undramatic arrest.
At the police station, Tishko is informed he's suspected of murder.
But in the initial interrogation,
he insists he's been in the apartment since Wilma left.
And he doesn't know where she is or what happened to her.
The police order a search of Tishko and Wilma's apartment.
CSI Monica Jonsson and her colleague are assigned the case.
My first thought was actually not mine, but my colleague's.
We decide first who will take the overview photos of the place.
My colleague did this, so I'd not yet been in the apartment.
I'd not even looked in.
He came out and said, "there's blood in the living room."
After technicians found small traces of blood in the living room
of Wilma and Tishko's apartment, they start a thorough investigation.
It was proof that there was blood,
and that someone had gone to the trouble to clean it up.
We collected blood that could be seen with the eye.
Nothing very remarkable.
To test for the presence of blood not visible to the eye,
they use a method called Bluestar.
To use Bluestar, we have a little unit.
And then you have a nozzle that sprays out a cloud of the product.
It reacts to hemoglobin - iron - in the blood
We photograph one room at a time, or parts of one room at a time.
And you can see the florescence, the blue tone that appears.
The floor lit up blue. We'd not known there was blood there.
There was more blood than we saw at first.
Blood is almost impossible to clean away.
Police now have clear signs something occurred there.
And that someone has tried to hide the traces.
But traces of what?
The police are doing everything
to understand what happened to Wilma.
Search efforts for Wilma are now more intense than ever
and her boyfriend, Tishko, is under arrest.
He is confronted there with the new evidence.
Tishko says in the interrogation that it is impossible.
There can't be any blood in his apartment.
In one of the interviews, Tishko sits there and even smiles at me.
It may be that he was tring to think about positive things.
And that made him smile. I don't think I'll ever know why he did that.
Tishko is also asked about his relationship with Wilma.
Tishko talked about their relationship, what he thought of it.
He thought it was...
Not so different from other young people's.
They fought sometimes. He didn't think he was controlling.
He thought she could be a nag sometimes, as she probably was.
It's seldom the fault of one person that two people are arguing.
He saw their relationship as a loving one.
That they were close.
So he didn't have the same view that Wilma's side did.
The military, the police and volunteers are all looking,
but there's no sign.
You can feel it in the air around here.
"No Results in the Search for Wilma."
People were out searching and searching.
There was such great hope that we'd find Wilma, and that she'd be alive.
We were out looking and looking.
We had a lot of contact with the police, the relatives...
Organizations...
I know everyone told me not to lose hope, not to give up.
It was like a vacuum of panic and chaos.
The despair, I can't even describe it. It was horrible.
Suspicions against Tishko are further strengthened
after a find in the trashroom of the apartment building.
The week after Tishko's arrest,
we got a call from the trash collectors.
They found something in the trash, so technicians were sent over.
There were pillowcases, cushion padding, like that,
lying in some plastic bags
some of which had Tishko's name on them.
The kind of bag you get when you order groceries.
It turned out Wilma's blood was on them.
Technicians went over the toilet carefully.
They found a lot of fluff stuffed down the toilet.
The cushion covers found in the trash
were like the bedspread found in the apartment.
Same color, same pattern.
In addition, there was a lot of blood on it.
It was sent to forensics, who found the case was drenched in blood.
It was not a question of a few drops of blood on the cushion..
There was a lot of blood, all over the cloth.
The new finds show something serious happened to Wilma there.
Now blood analyst Åse Zander is brought in
to see if she can give a clearer picture of what happened there.
There was something interesting here on the wall.
Found in an angle in the area in front of the armchair.
There was something with substance, thicker blood stains.
This was later analyzed.
It was found to contain Wilma's muscle tissue.
It requires great force for muscle tissue to be detached.
Not just a moderate blow.
This requires a lot of force behind it.
These are quite large pieces that have flown off.
It is now clear that Wilma was badly injured in the apartment.
But the main question is if her life was taken there.
The police decide to bring in German cadaver dogs.
We know that her body lay in this apartment, after she died.
Because she was gone.
Was she injured in the apartment, or removed from there, injured?
Or did she actually die there?
Is this the scene of an assualt or of a murder?
That was the reason for the dogs.
These dogs indicate by barking.
The dog indicated in the bed.
The German dogs detected a scent in the bed.
This means it is highly likely that Wilma was killed in the apartment.
Another important find was made in the kitchen.
We found a knife in the sink, lying with some other knives.
Forensics in Linköping processed the knife.
They found both Wilma's DNA...
and a piece of muscle, I think it was.
Before Anette Timm Preinfalk shares these results with Tishko,
she wants to see the apartment herself.
More and more evidence pointed to this as the scene of a murder.
When I got there,
technicians told me of a strange smell.
I smelled it too.
There is something in there, somewhere.
We quickly realized the smell was coming from the bedroom.
They suspect that the smell is coming from the bedroom closet.
As investigators look for the source of the smell,
Prosecutor Anette Timm Preinfalk returns to the police station
to question Tishko.
The meeting had just started
with Tishko and his lawyer
when I got a call saying they had found a bag.
We understood it might contain something concerning Wilma.
The only thing I said to Tishko at this time
was that we'd found a black bag, and wanted to know what was in it.
The search for Wilma Andersson is over.
Police have made a find that indicates she is no longer alive.
WILMA IS DEAD
What the police have not yet revealed
is that the contents of the bag found in the bedroom closet -
is more macabre than anyone could have imagined.
The bag we found had been there the whole time.
The first two days, we were searching in the apartment for a whole person.
This is a little cabin bag, the kind you take on a plane.
We didn't think she's been cut up like that.
When you come to a place, looking for a missing person,
we're looking for a person.
Dead or alive. A body.
If you don't find that in the apartment, which we didn't here,
your next thought is not that body parts are hidden somewhere.
Technicians and others start working as usual.
It's made no difference to the case. But it's tragic for the family.
They've had to wait longer to find out that Wilma's been found
and is no longer alive.
The police have found Wilma's head in the bag. Wrapped in foil.
Wilma's mother, Linda, is just about to start another search for Wilma.
When she receives the news that kills all hope.
She was coming to our meeting and was parking her car
when she got the call.
In cases like this,
the mother may let out a primal scream.
She fell apart.
So I went over to the volunteers, who had heard the scream.
I called them together
and told them that what they heard was the missing girl's mother.
It's like a nightmare, only you don't wake up from it. You're in it.
I wouldn't wish it on anyone, what we had to go through.
Not just our family, everyone else too. It affected so many people.
How someone could do that to Wilma, who had her whole life ahead of her.
I can't understand that.
When we got the news,
I think, not just for me or for society but for all of Sweden,
the air went out of us. All hope, all light, just went out.
When CSI searches through the bag, they find Wilma's passport
her mobile phone, a scarf, and a little stuffed animal.
Wilma's head was wrapped in many layers of aluminum foil and tape.
Tishko's fingerprints are found on the foil.
There was a lot that Tishko had a hard time explaining.
Among other things, the fingerprints on what we found.
The explanation he gave
was that he used a lot of foil for packing narcotics to hide the smell.
It smelled very strongly.
He would reuse it. So after he had smoked his hasch,
he rolled it back on the roll.
So this can explain it.
He says someone else put the find there and wrapped it with the foil.
That's why his fingerprints are there.
That police find the bag with Wilma's head after nine days
means that someone else can have put the bag there, says Tishko.
The apartment was unguarded between when technicians were there
between about 10 am and 1:15 pm when Tishko was arrested.
After that, the police had their own lock on it.
So, say another perpetrator
saw that Tishko was arrested and taken away from the apartment.
Tishko has said that Wilma made copies of the keys.
The perpetrator would have brought Wilma's head to the apartment,
and wrapped it up,
since it was wrapped with materials from the apartment,
that even have Tishko's fingerprints on them.
It's technically completely impossible.
As we see it,
no one else could have had time to put the find in the bag.
Although no cause of death has been established
and her body is missing,
Prosecutor Jim Westerberg charges Tishko Ahmed with Wilma's murder.
On May 26, 2020, the trial starts in the district court of Uddevalla.
Wilma's family is there to get answers on what happened to her.
Prosecutor Jim Westerberg presents evidence
and asks Tishko to answer the charges.
I would have had to break the laws of physics to be guilty of this.
Wilma's blood has been found in every room of the apartment.
- And you noticed nothing. - I never saw it.
The apartment was cleaned, as you said yourself.
I'd remember cleaning up blood. I didn't do that.
The TV furniture... where muscle tissue was found.
- You didn't see that by the TV? - No.
- And your blood was on the carpet. - That's impossible.
Tishko is also asked about his controlling behavior toward Wilma.
That you would decide things. What do you say?
I have a girlfriend, she's young, 16,17. And she looks really good.
I pointed out that she can't wear certain things because people stare.
No one wants people to stare at their girlfriend.
It's natural. I'd absolutely not say it was a need to control her.
I've watched Tishko throughout the whole trial.
He's given different impressions, mostly he's been very calm.
Almost uninterested at certain times.
He's not responded to Wilma's family, who have been looking at him.
He's chosen not to look back at them.
Wilma's family chose to be present for all ten days of the trial.
The last day saw an emotional encounter with the boyfriend.
The last thing that happened during the trial was that Tishko stood up.
He turned to Wilma's family and gave them the finger.
There was a big scene, and the family was screaming at him.
They wanted answers. "Where is she? Where is she?"
And he went off with the guards.
The verdict on Tishko came in on July 27th.
He is sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Wilma
and the mutilation of her body.
But his defence appeals the judgement.
The case moves to appeals court, which reduces the sentence.
The appeals court upholds the murder conviction
but sentences him to 18 years,
the highest fixed-term sentence possible.
We were a little surprised at the sentence.
We don't believe there were aggravating circumstances.
That they toned down the length of the attack.
It's not established how long the attack went on
but I think we have shown it through witness testimony.
For Uddevalla residents, the memory of Wilma lives on.
When you work with something so intensely and for so long,
it becomes part of you. I think it's a part of everyone in Uddevalla.
I think it's a memory that will live in the city
and also in those of us who were involved.
Life will never be like it was before.
There's a before, and an after.
We're reminded of it every day.
There's not one day, not one hour when we're not reminded of Wilma.
PLEASE LIGHT A CANDLE FOR WILMA
We got a life sentence, Wilma and us.
He got 18 years. And will be out in 11.
There is no justice in that.
I hope one day in the end there will be justice for Wilma.
And we'll be able to bury all of our Wilma.
How it is now is not okay.
Both Tishko Ahmed and Wilma's family
have appealed the case to the Supreme Court,
but the appeal was denied.
Subtitles: Stephanie Lindqvist www.sdimedia.com