This program contains scenes of a graphic nature.
It seems like the aim was to get at the husband and wife.
In this kind of violent crime,
there's usually a relationship between victim and perpetrator.
We can see that the weapon is empty.
It's a 9mm Beretta.
I don't know where we're going or what we're doing.
We get in my car and go.
My first thought is that he has very big shoes.
This could be the culprit. But it's so unlikely.
It showed the ability to use great force.
There are two - or more - perpetrators.
When I got to the door, it was closed.
But it's unlocked.
So I open the door and go in.
When I come in, I hear
the kitchen faucet
is on full blast.
I call out, "Hello!"
I turn to the right,
and see Mamma and Pappa lying on the floor.
I'm just screaming.
I see them lying there.
Taped up. Lying in their own blood.
June 12, 2017,
an older couple is found brutally murdered in their home in Mantorp.
It is the couple's daughter who found them and called police
who immediately go to the scene and enter the house.
I see a body.
Where can you even walk? This is fucking sick.
-I'll stay on the sides here. -Yes.
There's a body under there.
-Nothing's broken? -I don't see that either.
They were let in.
We quickly saw that most of it took place in the kitchen,
where the bodies were.
A lot of blood on the floor.
They were tied to chairs.
The woman is lying under the table
and the man was lying alongside the table.
He'd fallen forward.
They were taped extremely tightly over the arms and head.
You couldn't see their faces.
I thought they might have suffocated,
they were taped so hard.
Murdered pair found tied up
Massive hunt for double murderer
Older couple found dead in farmhouse
The state of the crime scene
showed the ability to use great force.
We knew it involved two victims.
So, it could also involve two - or more - perpetrators.
We were perplexed
that there seemed to have been a big fight in the kitchen
but the rest of the house was left untouched.
With this kind of serious crime, there is usually some kind
of relationship between victim and perpetrator.
There's usually a connection between them.
We interviewed their children
to see if they can tell us anything about their parents that can help.
And asked what they've been doing for the last few days.
Tor Lekander is 70 years old and his wife, Ann-Christine, is 63.
According to their three children, their life is orderly and active.
Tor helped build the house
where their children grew up.
They lived a peaceful life.
They had friends and good relationships with their children.
When we started looking into their finances,
we found no great fortune but no debts, either.
There was nothing unusual, they were an ordinary couple.
In the investigation of the crime scene,
technicians discover that both victims have slashes on their necks.
This explains the large amount of blood on the floor.
But they find more that puzzles them.
There was quite a lot of money in a kitchen cupboard, quite visible.
There were also prescription narcotics.
In the rest of the house, we found nothing.
No sign it had been searched.
It seemed like the aim was to...
get at this couple.
They didn't do anything else.
Close to the hall door, liquid had been poured out on the floor,
probably to hide footprints and any traces.
CSI technicians also see
that the perpetrators made a failed attempt to flood the kitchen
by plugging the sink with a meat cleaver
and leaving the water running.
Pouring liquids on the floor like this,
it's very unusual in Sweden.
It's very important we get the help of the public
and are asking for tips or sightings from yesterday
of people, vehicles or anything else that may be significant
in Mantorp, the area surrounding it, or in the Mantorp community.
The isolated location of the crime scene
lessens the chances that anyone observed anything.
The police are forced to expand their search area.
We knew we were at least one day behind the perpetrators.
The couple's bank account showed a 1000 crown transfer
from one account to another.
This was at around 1:30 pm on Sunday, June 11.
An hour and a half hour later,
there was a transfer between these accounts
but for a much larger sum, 20,000 crowns.
When we looked into the 20,000 that was transferred,
we saw that some of that amount had been withdrawn
from an ATM in Borensberg,
about thirty kilometers from the crime scene.
Bank records show the police that 15,000 crowns was withdrawn
from the couple's account.
Several attempts were also made to take out more.
but the withdrawal limit had been reached.
The perpetrators entered the correct code each time.
When we saw there had been an ATM withdrawal,
we thought we might have a quick solution to this case.
There is usually a camera there so there should be video
of the people who did this.
We contacted the bank to get the film.
We were in a rush to get it, of course.
But it turns out that the bank had set the camera
to not record at this particular time.
The police study security footage from other cameras in the area
hoping to find the culprits on them,
but find no one who seemed suspicious.
The police's public appeal finally brings a result.
At the end of June,
we got in a tip about two people that seemed more promising
than others we received.
One of these two people
had recently shown psychotic behavior.
There was a history of illness in the Lekander family.
When we looked into the medication that had been prescribed,
we saw that Ann-Christine Lekander had picked up medicine on June 9th
at a pharmacy in Mantorp.
Which one of these people also did.
The medication she picked up could be of interest
if the perpetrators had addiction problems.
The police can also see that the day before the murder,
Ann-Christine went to a shopping center in Mantorp,
as did the two men.
Apart from this, we knew that one of these people
changed his appearance
a few days after the Lekanders were found dead.
A check into these people's finances
shows they made no withdrawals with their ATM card
between the 11th and 15th of June.
This could indicate that they had got some cash to live on.
We saw these two men as suspects.
It gave us hope that we'd found the culprits of this terrible crime.
This is a live broadcast from TV4 Play
to announce that two people have been arrested
on suspicion of the double murder in Mantorp.
Suspect denies guilt
When we look more closely at these two people,
we find that one of them lives only a few kilometers
from the crime scene.
So there was local knowledge.
The other person of interest was a resident of Hallsberg,
It could be he was on the way to Hallsberg
but stopped in Borensberg
to take out money with the Lekanders' bankcard.
But when police check the men's telephone records,
their geographical positions don't match
the time of the crime.
They'd been in the area and their actions were of interest
but no more than that.
No new information came in. Suspicions of them didn't increase.
On the contrary, we eliminated them as suspects.
Police once again had no suspects.
Crime technicians work intensively at the scene
to find clues that will move the investigation forward.
We found a footprint in the hallway outside the kitchen.
It was imprinted in a kind of sugar solution.
The footprint was headed out of the house.
We thought that the sugar solution had stuck to the shoe
as the liquid was poured out on the floor.
Then he left,
after killing the couple.
Hidden in the blood and liquids on the kitchen floor,
technicians find a plastic ball.
They suspect it comes from a CO2 air gun.
Other objects are taken from the kitchen and sent for analysis,
including the couple's phones.
As the investigation continued,
we were able to secure a fingerprint on Tor's phone.
We searched for it in the police registers, but it gave no hit then.
The hunt for evidence continued at RMV, the Forensic Medicine Board.
The man was taped to the leg of the chair,
and we found dry areas on his left trouser leg,
which otherwise were wet.
In several areas on the leg,
we were able to secure DNA.
But it could have been left
by one of the police who handled the body, or the coroner.
But in the layers of tape around Tor's head,
we found a piece of plastic
we believe came from a blue Nitrile disposable glove.
On one side of the piece of plastic,
forensic technicians retrieved one more DNA profile.
It turned out to match the one from Tor's trousers.
Getting the match
made us feel we had a secure profile from one of the perpetrators.
It was good to have the DNA.
It gave us a good chance of finding the killer.
So then it's a question of finding the person who matches the DNA.
Police search the DNA register, hoping to find a match.
But get no hit.
Now it will be hands-on work to find the perpetrator
by swabbing and testing DNA.
Since we can't swab everyone in Sweden,
we look first in the surrounding area,
and expand the search into other appropriate categories.
Hundreds of potential perpetrators
are tested.
But when we get no hit, we start to realize
there's no direct connection between the perpetrator and the victims.
The perpetrator could be anywhere in Sweden,
or out of the country.
Some days were harder than others.
But the investigation team supports each other
and helps keep up the energy. We simply must solve this.
We've no alternative.
To move forward,
police need to limit the number of people they swab for DNA.
Can the shoeprint found at the scene give any leads?
When following up on the shoeprint,
we found that 33,000 copies of that sole had been produced.
When we realized the number was so large, 33,000 shoes,
we didn't have much hope of finding the person who left the print.
But since forensics could state it was a size 47,
that gave us a specific shoe size.
Size 47
is not a common size in this country.
When the shoe size is added to the criteria,
police cut the number of potentials down to 190 people.
But that's still too many people to swab for DNA.
At the same time, they start working on another lead.
There was a theory
that the perpetrator might have brought the tape with him
that he used on the victims.
We decided to try to identify the kind of tape,
where it had been bought,
and at what time it was purchased.
We started by looking for possible stores.
But there were many stores that sold this kind of tape.
Police obtain silver-colored woven tape
from the most common places of purchase close to the scene.
They are sent to forensics
in the hope of identifying the tape used in the crime.
This is a tape like the one found
at the crime scene on the victims.
When you look at it,
you see the surface has a pattern.
The number of threads can also differ.
We determined it was from a Biltema store.
The problem we had
was that this might be the most common woven tape in Sweden.
So at first,
it didn't feel so promising
for the case.
But we also worked from the theory
that the black electrical tape used at the scene
was bought at the same time.
Biltema's security department helped police determine
that the combination of black electrical and woven silver tapes
were bought 177 times.
We limited the search further, looking at where the people shopped
before they bought the tape.
So from 177 people, we get down to twelve
from whom we decide to take DNA samples.
Investigator Johanna Wihlmark and her colleague
are assigned to interview and take DNA swabs
from the new selection of people.
It was something completely unique.
Every morning, I remember
we're looking for a double murderer.
We have to consider all options.
That's why we're conducting these interviews.
We had three interviews planned that day.
The first one was with a 24-year-old man.
He suggests the time
and that we should meet during his morning break, at 9am.
He had a half-hour break, so that was a good time to talk.
We hoped, of course, that the killer would be one of the twelve.
Personally,
I didn't have great expectations anything would come of this work.
We were still quite limited in our searches
in terms of the purchases and time-frames.
There was nothing to say
that the perpetrator might not have bought the tape at some other time.
Or bought it from a competely different place.
A young, very polite man comes out and introduces himself.
He identifies himself and is very cooperative.
The first thing I see
is that he has very big shoes.
He knows this concerns a purchase he made
at Biltema, on June 11th.
When he bought silver tape and electrical tape.
He says the silver tape was used to repair his children's toy oven.
The electrical tape was used to fix a lamp on their second floor
which was giving shocks.
When the interview was over, he received information
on how the swab would be carried out.
I take out the swab.
I had to reach up quite far since he's very tall.
I took swabs from his mouth,
and that was it.
I had a feeling this could be the perpetrator.
But it's also so unlikely
that a 24-year-old father of two
could have done this terrible crime.
We receive the DNA result from NFC, the forensics lab.
The DNA swab and profile we got match
the profile we'd secured at the crime scene.
When we check the list of where the shoes had been delivered,
we see that this same person, earlier the same year,
had a pair of Arbesko shoes delivered, in size 47.
The trail leads to a man named Edvin Gyllensvaan
He's 24 and lives in Mullsjö
with his partner and their two young children.
He is a trained chef but now works as a fork-lift operator.
The suspect is someone
who doesn't match the profile
of those who usually come up in a violent crime investigation.
He has no history of violence.
There's no addiction we can see,
which is often coupled with violent crime.
Three months after the murders,
Edvin Gyllensvaan is arrested at his home in Mullsjö.
A search of his home was carried out at the same time.
They search in vain for tape
matching those used in the murders,
and for knives, since the murder weapon was never found.
A pair of shoes are in the yard.
They are examined and found to match the shoeprint at the scene.
Edvin is arrested with probable cause
on suspicion of the murders of Tor and Ann-Christine Lekander.
He strongly denies he's guilty in all interviews.
In the first interviews,
he said he drove around after a fight with his girlfriend.
He drove aimlessly, didn't know where he'd been.
But he definitely hadn't been in a house.
In the next two interviews,
he says he stopped at a house and used the toilet.
He had a glass of black current juice and met the woman who lived there.
That he says he was offered black current juice,
tells me that he was telling a story that was partially a real memory.
He was in the house.
He had held a bottle of juice.
But he was not offered it.
He poured that liquid over the bodies, after killing them.
Could a previously unconvicted 24-year-old father of two
really be the sole perpetrator of two brutal murders?
When the fifth interview starts,
he starts by saying that he wants to make a statement.
He says he's not going to answer any more questions
because of a threat against him. That's all he says.
Everyone reacts differently. It can be stressful just talking to police.
So reacting like that, even if you have nothing to hide,
It's hard to know from a person's reaction if they're lying.
After Edvin was arrested, the police get access to his bank card.
Police discover that one more purchase was made
on the day of the murders
that could be of interest to the investigation.
At the crime scene,
police technicians had found a white plastic ball
that they think goes with a CO2 air pistol.
On the 11th of June, he bought a CO2 air pistol
in a store in Jönköping.
What's strange
is that the CO2 air pistol is returned
a few days after the crime.
This information led us to contact the store,
and we find out that the same gun that the perpetrator returned
is still in their warehouse. We took it into evidence.
This is a CO2 air pistol, or soft air gun.
He bought it at Teknikmagasinet.
Let's see here...
It looks like a copy of an Italian pistol, a Beretta.
Model 92F, a 9mm.
In terms of weight and appearance, you can't see a difference
between this and a real gun.
There were bloodstains on the weapon
from Tor Lekander.
This says that the weapon was present at some point,
or was used during the crime.
Looking further into Edvin Gyllensvaan's purchases,
and from an analysis of his telephone use,
Police can create a clear picture of his movements
on the day of the murder.
At the start of the day, he leaves his home in Mullsjö.
He dropped off his family at the grandparents
before driving to Jönköping.
His movements showed he first went to Biltema and bought tape,
then went to the sport and nature store, XXL,
and bought a filet knife.
Then he drove to the A6 shopping center and bought the air pistol.
After he makes these purchases
the perpetrator drives north up the E4.
For some unknown reason, he leaves the E4 by Mantorp
and drives to this place to which, as far as we can see,
he has no connection.
The transfers from the couple's account
happened between 2.55 and 3.11 pm.
Between 4.09 and 4.12 pm,
withdrawals from the Lekanders' account in Borensberg are made.
After the withdrawals, around 5 pm,
we can see that the perpetrator has parked his car in Linköping,
where he eats at a restaurant.
After he finishes his meal at the restaurant,
he heads off
back home to Mullsjö again.
Although police can map out Edvin's movements on that day,
many questions remain.
Why did he stop specifically at the Lekanders' house?
Why were they subjected to such terrible violence?
And what is the threat that Edvin claims to be under?
Nine months after the Lekanders' murders,
the trial of Edvin Gyllensvaan begins.
Even if we, the police,
thought we'd delivered a good product
and it had been a good investigation,
you never know what might happen in a trial or how it will be judged.
The investigation was very good, but when I go in the courtroom
there are always surprises.
We used this room for the trial of the Mantorp murders.
The prosecutor sits on the left, I sit there.
The defendant's counsel and the family's lawyer.
The defendant sits across from me.
This is how it always is in a courtroom.
Since Gyllensvaan stopped talking in interview five,
I assume he'll say something here, at least.
It's not mandatory to tell the court anything,
but there comes a point when the evidence is so incriminating
that if he's denying guilt, there must be an explanation
of why the situation isn't as it seems.
Because the evidence is so incriminating.
There was a total of three places.
I took out the money. I admit that. I stole it.
But I didn't kill them.
As the trial continues, Edvin tells the court
that he'd been working as a driver
for a person he called Mattias.
Mattias asked Edvin on several occasions
to be a getaway driver.
But he never did it.
I need to start from the beginning.
I'm not stupid, I understood he was a criminal
quite early on.
The weekend before, the 11th,
it all came to a head, the fact that he was threatening me.
If I didn't do what he said, if I didn't do...
what happened, my family would be at risk.
I took the threats very seriously.
This was a criminal organization in Jönköping.
Edvin says he received instructions from Mattias,
to buy a pistol and a knife. He does this.
After I bought the things,
I met Mattias and a person I'll call Elias.
I don't know where we're going or what we're doing.
We just get into my car and go. They directed from the back seat.
I drive straight until they tell me to turn.
Eventually, we ended up in Mantorp.
It's hard to understand why two gang members,
as he describes it, would want to push him into criminality
and use him for this purpose.
It only increases their risk of getting caught.
It doesn't add up.
Mattias knocks on the door. Ann-Christine opens.
Then the other person and I enter the house.
Ann-Christina calls for Tor.
Then they're led into the kitchen and sit on two chairs.
I tape them with the black tape.
Then the other person takes out the silver tape.
I start taping their hands and bodies.
I'm told to tape their mouths. Not their noses.
Just the mouth. So I do.
Then I see that the tip of the blue glove I'm wearing is gone.
I give the tape to the other person with me.
I get instructions to go withdraw the money.
I go to the car and drive away.
All I know is,
I helped rob an older couple in Mantorp.
His story of what happened is new for me.
He says that when he left the house, they were tied up
but they were both still alive.
Then he went to Linköping and had dinner.
When he didn't hear anything from Mattias or Elias, he went home.
The day after, Edvin claims he met with Elias and Mattias.
They give him a bag with the pistol
as well as a pair of work shoes that he thought had been in the car.
On Tuesday, I read in Aftonbladet what happened.
I realize how serious the situation is
both because of the threat and what would happen if...
I came forward with any information.
It was a terrible crime, an awful crime.
But it wasn't me who killed them.
This story he tells
matches the evidence.
He can explain why he bought a knife, why he bought a gun,
why he parked in Linköping, etc.
The name Mattias had come up in the investigation,
both in interviews with family
and in texts between Edvin and his girlfriend.
No one had ever met this Mattias.
No one ever saw a message from him, nothing like that.
This was a person that Gyllensvaan said, several times,
that he worked for.
We looked in the material from the pre-trial investigation
to see if we'd missed anything.
We looked in Edvin's circle of acquaintances to try to find
anyone who matched what the suspect said.
But we couldn't see that anyone existed who fit the description.
There is nothing
we can check out in his story to see if it's true.
There is nothing concrete, no details,
nothing anyone else could have seen
or heard. No purchases, nowhere he might have been.
He says he couldn't give any verifiable information
because he was afraid.
But we couldn't see
anything in his movements or from the interviews
to indicate he showed any worry during the summer.
Nothing that pointed either to a threat or a bad conscience.
The important thing now is to analyze
what he says and see if there's anything
we can verify or check to see if he's telling the truth
or if he's maybe lying.
What shoes did you have on there?
A pair of green sneakers.
-Mmm. -With white on top.
The ones your counsel has shown,
that you had on when you were arrested?
Exactly.
That was the only concrete statement
in his hours-long testimony that we hadn't already looked into.
Police check Edvin's purchases once again
and find he bought a pair of green sneakers,
but three weeks after the murders.
The shoes he says he wore
so he couldn't have left the shoeprint.
It's an impossible combination. He adapted his story to the shoes.
It was just a mistake. He thought he had them longer than he did.
But in my eyes, it shows his ability to change his story
to fit the evidence we present.
We say this, how do you respond?
You get a narrative since he needs to explain it.
But it's not a true story.
When we first looked at how tightly they were taped,
we thought there might be several perpetrators.
They threaten them with a weapon,
and then put on the first layers.
Then they're in control.
Then we realized that this could have been done by one person.
The case against Gyllensvaan was strong.
His DNA was on an underlayer of the tape
on Tor Lekander's neck.
The tape that had been wrapped around his face to kill him.
The strong forensic evidence says that Edvin is guilty of murder.
But there's no known motive.
Before the judgment can be passed,
Edvin is to undergo a psychiatric assessment.
In the pre-trial investigation, it was discovered
that he had had fantasies about murder.
He did not try to keep this a secret.
He wanted to kill with a knife, see blood.
He had also thought about which people he could kill...
friends and family close to him,
and in what order.
But he said he had put that behind him
and had had treatment to stop these thoughts.
I had fantasies about hurting people, about killing.
I had a kind of "death list."
I knew I was sick and had problems.
I went through several treatments for it, I got help.
The psychological assessment
shows that Edvin, at the time of the crime,
was not suffering from a mental disorder.
The only reason we can find for what's he's done is that
he just wanted to kill someone.
Also, he was also having financial problems, and this was a way
to get some money.
If I had done what people think I did,
I would not have gone and had a steak at Texas Longhorn,
and then gone home like nothing had happened.
I am a man with strong morals.
I don't want to hurt people, I've never wanted to.
Edvin Gyllensvaan is convicted
by both the district court and appeals court
to life in prison.
But six months after his conviction,
Edvin contacts the investigators.
He has something he wants to tell them.
He had earlier given different narratives.
It was hard to know in advance what this one would be.
The perpetrator now says he was the only person
who committed the murders in Mantorp.
We had already proven this so it made no difference.
To track down who bought two rolls of tape,
it's a hopeless task.
But we have stubborn police.
And competent ones. Those who led this investigation
are that kind.
In this case, we used a lot of investigatory methods
that we were not sure would bring results.
But we followed these lines of investigation and in the end,
they led us to the killer.
Edvin Gyllensvaan is held in a maximum security prison.
He is not eligible for a fixed sentence until 2028.
Subtitles: Stephanie Lindqvist www.sdimedia.com