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There were many rumors about terrible things he'd done.
The legs were straight out that way.
The arms were stretched up, out from the body.
Many people saw him as a walking weapon.
We want all observations. Don't assume it's not important.
The audio surveillance
gave us information that allowed us to take action.
We're talking about terrible things.
There's no substantial evidence at all.
We had the tattoos, we had the rosaries,
However, we have no forensic evidence tied to a perpetrator.
We have no more leads to go on.
Is it drugs, or what's this really about?
March 13, 2010,
police in Sundsvall receive a report
that a 33-year-old man named Stefan Karlsson is missing.
His girlfriend reported he'd not come home.
The police took this seriously from the beginning
since Stefan was a person
the police knew very well.
We knew that in the circles he traveled in,
a disappearance is not always a voluntary one.
The same day the report came in,
police make an interesting find.
We've turned off into the LV5 area in Sundsvall.
It's about five minutes from the center of town.
We're on the way up to where Stefan's car was found.
When he was reported missing.
This area, LV5, is an old military complex.
There's a business park here and lots of people are around
both day and night.
But it's still a ways out from the center of town.
Stefan's car was here.
It was parked here, by these woods.
facing so that it would be easy to drive away.
This is a place you turn around in and then leave,
after you'd taken a wrong turn.
Or you park your car and take a little walk with the dog.
There are paths around here.
But to park for a long time,
people don't really do that here.
We found Stefan's car with his dog inside.
Anyone who knew Stefan said immediately
that this was not something he'd do.
He would not have voluntarily left his dog in the car like that.
The dog was the first indicator that something was really wrong.
A few days after his disappearance,
a couple was out walking their dog on Klissberget.
Klissberget is six km west of Sundsvall.
Even at this time of year, it's covered with snow.
There are very few people out in this area,
especially in the winter. Not many people around.
Trudging through the snow is hard.
When we got here, we saw footprints.
We're glad there are others who've been here.
But I noticed one strange thing,
that the footprints seemed not to be from winter shoes.
We walk about twenty meters up and I turn around.
The dog stays there, nose to the ground.
I call her, she doesn't come. I called her several times.
As soon as we turn around, she rushes back to the edge of the snow,
nose to the ground again.
I hurry over,
take hold of her collar and pull her away.
When I do that, leaning forward, I see a hand sticking up.
I scream to Kenneth, "Come here, there's a body lying here!"
I was really scared.
I bent over and looked at the hand, then looked around for the head.
And I saw the head.
Birgitta and Kenneth call the police.
When the police come to the scene,
they quickly realize that the body in the snowdrift
on Klissberget is the missing Stefan Karlsson.
When we arrived on the scene, we started by examining the body.
The body was mostly covered with snow.
It looked sloppy.
We also saw there was a big hole next to the body.
Someone had been digging here, maybe with just their hands,
to try to cover him up.
The depth of the snow, at this time of year,
was around a half meter.
The body was lying with the head facing north, in this direction.
The legs were straight out that way.
And the arms were stretched up,
out from the body.
We found a bloody hat close to the feet,
somewhat under the snow.
There was a hole in the back of the hat we saw was a bullet hole.
The victim had eight bullet wounds.
Three in the head.
One bullet wound in the torso. Two in the groin.
And one in a buttock.
The firing distance was calculated
using gunshot residue on the deceased's clothing.
The shooter was shown to be between one to three meters away,
which is considered close range.
Considering the number of bullet wounds
and where they were located,
it's clear that Stefan was executed.
Stefan Karlsson was only 33 years old.
Eight months ago, he became a father
and his girlfriend says his criminal past was over.
On Saturday, he was found murdered outside Sundsvall.
We think this may have to do with his previous,
criminal, way of life.
We want all observations. Don't assume it's not important.
This place is so out of the way that all observations are good.
The impression we got of Stefan during the investigation
was split.
One side was the picture his friends and family painted,
of a thoughtful person,
who did everything for his family and his girlfriend and his new baby.
Someone who wanted to start over and leave the criminal life behind.
Then there was the other side.
Many people described him as someone to fear,
who controlled part of the drug market in Sundsvall.
We got information on how he penalized people
if they were late with payments or did something,
or maybe bought from someone else.
Many people saw him as a walking weapon,
He had strong physical control from martial arts training.
He beat people, tortured people.
There were many rumors about terrible things Stefan had done.
He easily got violent and aggressive.
His mood changed quickly. He was very volatile.
He threatened people or forced them to do things.
We're talking about terrible things.
When we looked at all the people
who might have had a motive to do this to Stefan,
we found many, around fifty people.
It's unusual to find so many who could be called enemies
or who could have wanted to hurt another person.
There were certain problems in this investigation.
Some of these people were criminals.
On principle, they didn't want to talk to the police.
Or it was difficult to reach them
since they don't have fixed addresses. Or were just unavailable.
Certain people didn't tell the truth
because they were hiding other illegal activity.
At the crime scene, CSI technicians make new finds,
but a little ways from where the body was found.
We found a lot of evidence that the murder took place here.
In this area,
there was a lot of blood,
and bullet casings.
We found a tooth...
At the autopsy of the body,
two different calibers of bullets were found.
This indicates two different weapons were used
in the murder.
One smaller 6.35 caliber weapon,
and a heavier 9mm weapon.
The presence of two different caliber guns raised the question
of if one person would use two guns.
We believe
that it's theoretically possible, but not realistic.
There were clear tracks of blood
where the victim had been dragged up on the snowbank.
After that, they carried the body
around nineteen meters, in that direction.
They left a clear trail of blood on the snow.
Around here is where
the body lay before being covered with clumps of snow.
It's not likely that one person
could carry a body the size and weight of Stefan's.
Two people or maybe more carried this body.
The CSI investigation has provided
strong evidence for where the death occurred,
how the death happened,
but we have no forensic evidence
tied to a perpetrator.
Over fifty people have motives for the murder
and they have no lead on a specific culprit.
The police need something to help them
move the investigation forward.
Can more leads be discovered in the LV5 area
where Stefan's car was found?
This is the area. The entrance is there.
In the corner by that white building on the right,
that's where there was a surveillance camera.
Police get the video from the surveillance camera
which is aimed at the entrance to the area
where Stefan's car was found.
Unfortunately, the quality of the video
that covered some of the area where Stefan's car was parked,
was not high. The camera didn't cover the whole area,
and the quality of the image was not very good.
So, in order to actually see anything on the film,
we needed to enhance the image.
We put a lot of energy into this to get it as good as possible.
To improve the quality,
we looked in our own organization,
and also turned to NASA in the US
to see if they could do anything with it.
We could see Stefan arrive in his car.
We could also see there was one more car.
We wanted to see the license plate, and other things.
Get a clear idea of this other car, what model it was, etc.
It looked like an Audi, but we couldn't be sure.
While waiting for the enhanced video image,
investigators see if the current version can provide any leads.
They also release the film to the media.
Efterlyst presents unique photos of when Stefan met
with one or two unknown individuals soon before he was killed.
On this film, we can see the murdered man
arrive in his car at the parking lot.
The film also shows the arrival of another car.
These people then approach each other.
They talk a short while, and then both cars leave the area,
driving on this road to the parking area
where the victim's car is found on Saturday evening.
This is the video from the LV5 area.
You can see the light go on in the back seat.
When the light went on, we think someone opened a door.
Maybe someone in the back got a text message that lit up.
Are there already three people in this car?
Or there are two, one driving, one a passenger in the back?
We don't know. It's just an observation.
Then they drive up to the turnaround place. Stefan's car is last.
This is what we have to go on, where you see Stefan's car
and the Audi.
Now we see the Audi leaving the area,
and that Stefan's car is still there, up until it was found.
With the dog inside.
And then the film ends.
We searched Stefan's car.
We found an empty energy drink that gave a DNA result.
It was tied to a known criminal.
But the person was proven not to be involved
in this case.
In the place where the car was found,
we secured a number of cigarette butts.
Several were tested for DNA.
The problem was that snow
negatively affects the possibility
of getting any DNA results.
We had the car he had parked, where he left his dog.
We had the location he was found by the couple and their dog.
We knew the place
where he was murdered. But we had no clear leads.
Interviews and witnesses
help police map out Stefan's last day alive.
On Stefan's last day, as far as I can see,
he met with someone during the day
at the bathhouse in Sundsvall.
In the evening, he trained martial arts with his brother.
His brother wanted
a ride home, but Stefan had received a call
and said that he couldn't.
So, his brother is the last to see him, by the railway overpass.
We know that he then goes to get his dog, who'd been with a friend.
The friend wants to go out with their dogs together,
but Stefan says he can't
because he has a meeting.
After that, we see him,
or rather, his car, on the surveillance video from LV5.
Stefan had many enemies and any one of them could have killed him.
The police inquire into the people he saw the day he disappeared.
They see that the person he met with at the bathhouse
was then known to police
as the head of the neo-Nazi group, Swedish Resistance in Sundsvall.
We found out there had been a rift
between Stefan and the leader of SMR in Sundsvall.
So we talked with the leader.
He told us that he had met with Stefan
to sort out some issues they had with each other.
The conflict between Stefan and the leader for SRM
arose because he believed Stefan had tortured his younger brother.
They wanted to check what the situation was.
The SRM leader said that his brother was old enough
to deal with his own conflicts.
Then we found out
that it may have had to do with the sale of a weapon.
In the interview, it comes out that Stefan was looking to buy a weapon
because of a feud with a motorcycle gang.
The police can in fact tie this gang to the LV5 area.
The headquarters of this biker club was in LV5.
The club called itself "Seven Sins."
This was interesting since the car
was found in this area.
We realized that
there was a conflict between Stefan and the biker club.
Could Stefan have owed someone, or did someone owe him...
Is it drugs, or what's this really about?
Over the years, there have been a few biker clubs here.
When someone's wearing a vest,
you ask, which one do they belong to? Are they Hell's Angels?
It was the same with that biker club.
Rumors and suppositions were flying
about their loyalties, if they had backing from somewhere.
While holding interviews and mapping out Stefan's enemies,
police receive back an improved version
of the surveillance camera video.
Improvements in the image and the lighting
meant we thought we could tell the make of the car,
and that it was an Audi A3.
But what was interesting
was that someone we were looking into
owned an Audi A3 at the time of the murder.
Stefan has a friend named Henrik
who owns a car like this.
The police had previous dealings with him, but not like with Stefan.
He wasn't known for violent crimes.
We questioned many people who knew Stefan.
Most were asked about Henrik's relationship with Stefan.
We got quite a consistent answer.
He was Stefan's right-hand man.
Many said
that Henrik was the one
that Stefan trusted completely.
Stefan was rather paranoid around this time,
and thought he was being bugged and followed.
Henrik was a safe person for him.
It seems that Henrik and Stefan
had deep ties to each other. We found out
that Henrik was also godfather to Stefan's child.
So their connection was not only through the criminal world,
it went deeper than that.
Since we knew that
Stefan trusted Henrik to such an extent,
and that Stefan would not get into a car with just anyone,
suspicions came to rest on Henrik.
It was Henrik who had driven his own car and picked up Stefan
in the LV5 area. And then they went somewhere else together.
We think he knows more than he's telling us.
But he may be protecting someone else.
It could be
that Henrik knew more about
who could have been involved and who murdered Stefan.
Stefan would probably have agreed
to meet with a person if Henrik had vouched that it was safe.
Were Henrik and Stefan set up?
Or is Henrik involved?
And who are the others?
With these new suspicions, police start surveillance of Henrik
and tap his phone.
What is difficult with a wiretap
is that people don't speak freely about crimes.
In this case, they talked
about tattoos they were going to get.
Someone had got a tattoo, Henrik maybe was going to get one...
But it was very important.
That at least was clear. The tattoos were important.
On the wiretap, police hear that Henrik hangs out often
with a man named Jimmie.
Jimmie was a friend of Henrik's.
Jimmie had a previous record,
but for minor crimes.
This was not someone
we dealt with often.
In the wiretap, we hear that both Henrik and Jimmy
speak often and intensively
about a tattoo.
They say, "Have you done it? I've done it." And so on.
It seems this is very important.
Although the wiretap and surveillance
uncovers nothing new,
the prosecutor believes they already have enough evidence
to show that Henrik is involved in some way.
It's decided to arrest him for protecting a criminal.
The investigation of the murder of the 33-year-old man
is completely confidential.
The prosecutor has put a gag order on everyone involved in the case.
Today's hearing was not regarding the murder.
Instead, it concerned the more unusual category
of "protecting a criminal, felony crime."
But an hour later,
the court detained the man on reasonable suspicion,
a lower grade of suspicion.
Is it usual to go into a hearing on the charge of protecting a criminal?
It's unusual. No other comment.
Henrik said he had an alibi for that evening. He said
he'd been playing video games at home with Jimmie.
Police check out Henrik's alibi with Jimmie.
He verifies what Henrik said.
They were playing video games the night of the murder,
at the time of the crime.
Police can't find anything to contradict Henrik's alibi,
so he is released after a week in jail.
We continued to look at Henrik, of course,
but we still had a lot of interviews to do with many other people.
We got in a huge number of names of people to talk to
about what they know.
Every person interviewed might name five new people
who may have had
a schism with Stefan.
New interviews must be held, which in turn leads to more names
and new interviews, which leads to an even bigger investigation.
It just grew and grew. The more time that passes, the harder it is
to solve this kind of crime.
When you get to the stage where we have no more leads to go on,
the investigation stalls.
It's very frustrating.
After about a month,
the snow was melting.
Between the meeting place and where the body was found,
we found pieces of tape.
It was regular brown packing tape, wrapped around a few times.
It had been cut,
or chopped into pieces.
These pieces of tape
were sent for analysis,
looking for fingerprints and DNA,
but gave no result.
A year on, no resolution
For the next eighteen months,
the investigation stalls.
But in November, 2011, the investigation gets new steam.
In Västernorrlands County, the police launched
a big investigation into drug crimes.
They brought in a number of persons under suspicion,
In this investigation, one of the suspects
had information on the murder of Stefan Karlsson.
An investigator asks one of these suspects
if he knows anything about Stefan's murder.
And he says he does.
He says that Jimmie and Henrik did it together.
This person gives us another picture
of Stefan and Henrik's relationship.
They were friends and worked together,
on the drug scene,
but it was not equal,
that Henrik was below Stefan,
and that Stefan could treat Henrik quite badly.
Use him, and maybe even
verbally tear him down in front of others.
Henrik was in a vulnerable situation.
We were able,
with the help of his information, point suspicion
back at Henrik and Jimmie.
Around the same time, the police were contacted
by Jimmie's former girlfriend.
She told the police
that one night, she'd seen Jimmie when out.
He was in bad shape, not doing well,
was under the influence.
He told her he had
killed Stefan Karlsson.
He had done it because he couldn't stand seeing
Henrik in a bad way.
They were now suspected of direct complicity in the murder.
We could then start covert measures against them.
The police get authorization to use covert audio surveillance.
Since Henrik was then in prison for another crime,
the covert audio surveillance was placed only in Jimmy's apartment.
It was hard to hear. The quality was not very good.
We were listening to Jimmie's residence,
but there was a lot of noise. The hockey world cup was on.
So the police who were listening had to listen through the hockey match.
As I remember, Åke Unger and Leif Boork were doing the commentary.
I remember that the police, and I, since I was listening,
got very tired of Leif Boork.
The audio surveillance produced nothing for a long time.
At one point we were about to call it off.
But we decided to use the wiretap for the whole allotted time.
This meant we had to go over the weekend.
We had only one day left in the wiretap.
Henke and I had been to the gym.
We were training every day, and were drug-free.
-And? -I shot him first...
Jimmie talks about how he and Henrik
murdered Stefan Karlsson.
J: Then Henrik laughs, then he turns to Henrik and papapapa.
Jimmie tells Henrik's girlfriend
that he and Henrik
had planned this. They'd been working out and were drug-free
so that they'd be able to do it.
He lay down in the back seat of the car. They picked up Stefan.
When they got to Klissberget, they got out of the car.
He describes who shot first
and what kind of pistol he used.
He described how they moved the body.
Covered it with snow.
He described how they taped their clothes
so they didn't leave any DNA. Those kinds of things.
He gives details that no one other than the murderer would know.
This made us sure that this was right.
This is one of the murderers.
Jimmie told these things to Henrik's girlfriend,
while we were listening.
We took her in for questioning but she didn't want to admit it.
The audio surveillance, gave us information that allowed us
to move on Henrik and Jimmie.
And we could bring them in.
Two men arrested.
Henrik is already in prison for another crime,
Jimmie is arrested and brought in for questioning.
At first, he wouldn't admit he said what we recorded.
When confronted with it,
he admitted he was the one in the recording,
but claimed that he'd read it on Flashback.
He claimed he'd said it to impress Henrik's girlfriend.
He was playing tough.
Still denying guilt, Henrik and Jimmie were arrested
for the murder of Stefan Karlsson.
When they were searched, it was discovered
they were both wearing the same kind of rosary.
They also have something else in common.
It turned out that Henrik and Jimmie had
identical tattoos on the side of their torsos.
This Latin inscription
appeared in a movie called Boondock Saints.
The text of the tattoos is a verse,
"In the name of the father, the son and the holy spirit."
This verse, this prayer, is used
in Boondock Saints when the two characters
execute the evil person they are chasing.
This is part of the film, Boondock Saints.
These two people
have their victim here.
They read the prayer,
and then pull the trigger and the person dies.
This is what the movie is about,
punishing the evil people
that society failed to bring to justice.
In a brutal way.
And in a way that the person knows what's going to happen.
We had the tattoos, we had the rosaries they wore.
This was important for both Henrik and Jimmie.
We could also see
that they'd watched the movie both before and after the murder.
Our conclusion
was they had taken inspiration
for the murder of Stefan Karlsson from this movie.
The pieces fall in place, one by one.
And now Jimmie starts to talk.
Eventually, Jimmie changes his story.
He says he found out how the murder took place
from Henrik.
He says it was Henrik
who'd told him the information, and that he'd said it
to Henrik's girlfriend to try to look cool.
Henrik and Jimmie had given each other alibis.
They said they'd hung out that evening and played video games,
But after a while,
Jimmie changed that story, and says he gave
a false alibi for Henrik because Henrik had asked him to.
That Henrik in fact had left Jimmie's apartment
much earlier than they initially said.
Although both Henrik and Jimmie deny the accusations,
and no forensic evidence that ties them to the crime has been found,
the prosecutor finds the admission on the audio surveillance
and the other evidence
are enough to bring charges against Henrik and Jimmie.
The prosecutor needs to prove a crime.
As it is now, it's just a lot of talk.
There's no substantial evidence, in general.
There's no forensic evidence, nothing that places him at the scene
other than contradictory information from a person who's also involved.
We are charging Henrik and Jimmie with murder.
We end up in Sundsvall district court,
go through a trial, and they are found guilty.
Henrik and Jimmie, for murder.
Sundsvall district court ruled that the murder was planned.
and was carried out with firearms, at close range, by two shooters.
The fact that it was done in an isolated area
to a defenseless person lured there by someone he trusted,
leads the court to deem this a "cold-blooded execution."
But Henrik and Jimmie decide to appeal the court's finding.
The 30th of November, 2012,
the Lower Norrland appeals court hears the case.
In the appeals court, Jimmy got sixteen years in prison
and Henrik fourteen years.
The reason they received different sentences
is that, in Henrik's case, he was sentenced in the same period
for other crimes. So when they added them together,
the cumulative sentence for this part
ended up lower than Jimmie's.
But it was found that they were equally culpable.
And the penal value of the sentence was the same for both.
The evidence was strong.
It held up twice, both in the district court and on appeal.
The strength of the evidence was the forensics we had
that matched the details Jimmie reported in the surveillance audio.
I don't think we'd have convicted either one
if Jimmie hadn't been recorded telling it to Henrik's girlfriend.
It's hard to commit a crime with another person involved.
Loyalties change over time.
You maybe talk to too many people, you tell them things.
It's hard to stay silent about things you've done.
When you use your own car in a crime,
leave biological traces like DNA,
all those things that
allow the police to track you down, put a concrete picture together.
You see that a lot of mistakes have been made,
both when the crime was committed
and afterward.
It felt good, in my "police heart"
that the case has been solved.
It felt also good because
I was in contact with Stefan's family during the case,
and was glad that it could be cleared up for their sake.
Subtitles: Stephanie Lindqvist www.sdimedia.com