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I was off work that day and had been out with my dog.
He's running loose, I'm walking slowly a bit behind.
When I get to about here, I hear shots, "pow, pow",
so I look out and see a guy.
He's standing there, shooting, "pow, pow,"
then puts it away and just runs.
I'm shocked and don't really know what to do, so I pick up the phone.
I call the police, "I think I just saw someone get shot."
THE DOPPELGÄNGER
On the morning of January 3rd, 2012, emergency services receive a report
that a man has been shot on Kantatgatan in south Malmö.
We were having coffee at the station when the alarm went off,
so we rushed to the cars.
On the way out, the radio starts going off,
so I get ready and try to figure out my role in it all.
Am I going to try to save a life here, or cordon off an area?
The perpetrator could still be on the scene.
I think the police are still on the phone,
because they tell me "Can you check if he's alive?"
So I go over here.
I don't know if I feel his pulse or look to see if he's breathing.
People start turning up and neighbours are looking in,
so there's a bit of a gathering here in the end.
There was a pool of blood all over the... ground.
Around here, I see some people.
It's a lot to deal with when you're first on the scene.
What's happened here? Who are the people standing here?
Is anyone dangerous in the area?
He's laying on his back here on the footpath.
Completely still, eyes open.
So we get down on our knees and begin heart compressions
to get oxygen circulating the body until the ambulance arrives.
After awhile, we notice blood coming out of his mouth,
a gurgling of blood from his mouth.
So he's not getting any air in his lungs,
which is a sign he's too far gone.
We try laying him on his side, getting the blood out of his mouth,
and continue until the ambulance arrives.
Usually, ten or twenty minutes isn't a long time,
but, when you're dying, one minute is a very long time.
Johannes and his colleagues take turns doing heart compressions,
despite the man showing no signs of life.
The ambulance arrives after ten minutes.
The ambulance arrives, but don't take the man away.
They assess him and say, "No, he's dead, we won't be able to save him.
It's not possible.
It's better to leave him where he is and put a blanket over him."
Now it's time to secure the scene so forensics can search properly.
While waiting for forensics,
Johannes and his colleague try to get a sense of the crime scene
to see if anything might help in the hunt for the murderer.
We find a bag nearby.
We open it and look, and there's a camera inside.
There was a phone in the bushes nearby.
When we start looking, there are casings laying around.
Then it's time to look for witnesses.
Are there any security cameras here?
Go around and look, investigate things like that,
knock on doors of people who live nearby.
"Have you seen or heard anything?"
Maybe someone heard a bang,
looked out the window and saw someone run away.
That kind of information is good to have.
Police also question witness Benjamin,
and hope he can give them new information,
given he saw the shooter.
He was a pretty average build,
a little taller than me, maybe around 180.
I don't remember what jacket or pants he was wearing.
Normally, a gun is about this long.
And this one seemed a bit longer,
and it was like there was something on it.
Then he disappears and I disappear, and I don't follow
to see where he goes.
Despite witness information,
and that police were quick to get to the scene,
police find no traces of the perpetrator.
Quite a few minutes have passed before we get there.
And Malmö isn't big, you can get a long way in ten minutes.
If you're on a bike or moped or driving a car, you get even further.
Detective Inspector Monica Olhed Hansson
is appointed as head of the preliminary investigation,
and immediately begins working on the murder.
The area is in a neighbourhood with government-built rental apartments
where lots of different kinds of people live.
Lots of regular people live there,
but lots of people with a criminal history live there too.
The victim was shot several times in a turning zone on Kantatgatan.
He was shot laying on the ground, so he...
he was basically executed.
We identify him quite quickly, his name and such.
And it was a person named Charles Limerius,
48 years old when he was shot, a father of two.
He was living there temporarily at his mother's place
in the building facing the turning zone.
At least one of his sons was very engaged in basketball,
and he was very involved in basketball himself.
We want to know what reason there could be for him to be executed.
The same morning Charles Limerius is shot,
one of his sons is on his way to a basketball tournament in Lund.
Someone in the car says, "I heard there was a shooting in Lindängen."
And it's like, "Yeah, that's crazy." I didn't think anything more of it.
It happens. It's sad, but what can you say?
So we play our matches and drive back.
And Mum starts ringing me all day.
"When are you coming home?"
I'm just like, "Take it easy."
I remember coming home to Malmö after the games,
I went to the gym and worked out and stuff, and she kept ringing me.
I was just like, "What is it?"
She said, "No, you just need to come home."
When I got home, my mum and brother were on the sofa,
looking really gloomy.
And then they told me, "The guy who got shot was your dad."
My first thought was, "What the hell did he do?"
You don't just get shot out of the blue, something...
Something has to have caused it.
It's not the kind of thing that just happens... randomly.
Intensive work is underway
to question witnesses to yesterday's fatal shooting,
in the Lindängen district in Malmö.
One person was seen fleeing the scene,
but police say there could be multiple perpetrators.
We thought it was insane that someone was shot
out in the open in the middle of the day.
That same year, someone was shot in my stairwell,
so there was a lot going on here.
It makes you nervous.
He wasn't just shot to give him a scare,
it was pure execution.
If it was a hit or not, I don't know.
What we know now is that it's a man in his 50s,
he's not previously known to police.
At a hastily convened press conference in the afternoon,
Skåne's Chief of Police announced the murder in Malmö
had now become a national matter, and that a special group,
similar to the one used in the case of the serial shooter in Malmö
will be used.
It's my personal feeling that a moral barrier has been crossed.
That what wasn't okay 10 years ago is okay today.
That it's okay to shoot people, to attack them with knives, etc.
Starting tonight, Malmö police will increase their presence in town,
and in Lindängen to increase security.
Malmö police, who presented their confiscated weapons today,
say they're also upset at how toothless the legislation
and application of the law is against illegal possession of guns.
At that time, in 2011 and 2012,
there were an unbelievable number of lethal shootings in Malmö.
Many of these shootings were within criminal gangs.
There weren't many where victims weren't involved in them.
Charles Limerius isn't previously known to police,
but it comes out that he has had financial difficulties.
Could that be the motive for the murder?
When I was little, he worked as a consultant at...
Deloitte, if I remember correctly.
He also travelled a lot.
I remember when I was maybe four years old or something,
dad came home from work, late on Friday evening.
My mum, my brother and I were home, Dad came home around eight,
and we always had a movie, chips and Coca-Cola,
and it was the best part of the whole week,
when the family was together like that.
Things were relatively stable, he had a good job...
and okay income, I believe.
But he'd probably always had...
thoughts of starting his own business and...
getting really rich.
The problem was that he spent all his money.
So there were times when there was lots of money, but it all got spent.
So he has no buffer, I assume,
later, when there's less money coming in.
Around 2009, things started going downhill.
He had to sell his car, which was an Audi A6 that he was really proud of.
He had to sell the apartment.
He had to buy a smaller apartment out in Bunkeflo
where he never really liked living.
He lived there maybe one and a half years,
but it was around the same time he joined AA, if I remember correctly.
I don't really know how much he worked at that point, unfortunately,
but it was clear things were worse, financially.
He eventually decided to move in with his mother out on Kantatsgatan.
Charles was described by relatives as...
finding his way back in life, after having had a difficult time.
He was also rebuilding a good relationship with his sons,
that's about how I remember Charles.
We looked into whether there were any debts or things like that,
and I think it turned out there was someone who owed
a small amount of money to Charles,
but it was nothing that would explain why Charles would be...
The question remained, why was Charles murdered?
He has no criminal background whatsoever.
So we thought his bad financial position
might have led him to become involved in some Mafia-type thing.
It felt hard to believe, but those thoughts...
You start suspecting things, because...
You know, you don't get murdered out of nowhere.
Charles Limerius had companies, and we looked into them thoroughly.
And of course there were certain transactions that were discussed,
but we found absolutely nothing that could indicate a motive
for someone to kill him.
When surveying of Charles Limerius' life provides no new clues,
investigators focus on trying to find clues at the crime scene.
At the scene, we find bullet casings, naturally,
and the victim's phone lies a short distance from the victim.
This was interpreted to suggest the victim was talking on the phone
when he was shot.
He's shot at close range.
So it wasn't that he ran and was caught up to by some perpetrator.
He was simply standing there.
It turns out there was a red car parked in the turning zone.
And there was a witness that saw the car arrive.
And it was still there after the murder,
and she noticed the car because
she was very annoyed by cars parked in that zone
because it was a no-parking area.
We could see that the left side-mirror was turned in,
so you couldn't see the traffic if you were to drive with it like that.
Instead, you could see the location where Charles Limerius was shot.
The car was in the turning zone itself,
and Charles Limerius was shot on the footpath along the turning zone.
So it was just a few metres away.
So the theory was that the perpetrator arrived in the car,
sat in the car to wait for their victim,
and looked for the victim in the side mirror.
Considering the multiple signs the car could be involved in the crime,
police decide to take it in for forensic examination.
It was registered to a strawman,
which I think at this time has a thousand cars registered to them.
And we can also confirm who the previous owner was,
and in questioning,
he tells us who he actually sold the car to,
even if the administrative ownership hasn't been transferred.
The seller thought it was odd that the buyer didn't want to look at it.
He just wanted a cheap car with registration and tax sorted.
So that made the buyer even more interesting.
Police acquire more information about the buyer of the red car,
and it turns out to be a 28-year-old man from Malmö.
When a murder is committed, you get the data from mobile phone towers
to see which phones are in the area.
And it turns out that this person who had bought the car,
his phone had connected to the very tower that covered Kantatgatan.
So we could connect him to the scene,
once at the time of the murder,
and we looked at his phone records,
and saw he'd been at the scene three times previously.
Just short visits.
But we had nothing on him
to suggest any sort of connection between him and the victim.
This man has what you could call a fairly structured existence.
He's married and has two kids.
He lived in Malmö, he worked in a restaurant run by his parents.
A typical day for him sees him at the restaurant in the morning,
and then back at work later in the afternoon until evening.
And it turns out he has an old assault charge on his record.
I think some woman had reported it.
But I don't think there was anything else in his past.
He definitely wasn't someone we could label a gang criminal.
That wasn't the case.
Police put the suspected man under surveillance
to see if they can find anything to advance the investigation.
The surveillance didn't show us anything
other than the fact he had a lover who lived close to where he worked.
But we didn't find out anything in particular.
We saw that he moved between home, work and... the woman.
We had quite a few reasons to be suspicious of him,
but we could see no motive.
And we still had nothing to connect him to Charles Limerius.
Absolutely nothing.
Surveillance is concluded,
and despite no link between Charles and the suspect,
police decide to take their suspicions to the next level.
The 12th of March, 2012, the man is arrested,
and charged with the murder of Charles Limerius.
When we take him in, he's also questioned about the car.
He denies it, says it isn't his car.
He knew nothing about it and hadn't been on Kantatgatan.
There's all kinds of stuff in the boot of this car,
and there were also things in the front seat.
There were a couple of plastic bags, some wrapping paper,
and some other stuff in the front right seat.
And later we received results that, on one of the plastic bags,
his fingerprints are present.
It was a plastic bag with "Lyca mobile" printed on it.
When questioned about it,
he said he may very well have had the bag in his restaurant,
which is where it might have gotten his fingerprints.
Then it was established he'd done a search on the car
through the Swedish Transport Agency.
It was probably to make sure the car hadn't been registered to him,
because he certainly wouldn't have wanted that.
In connection with the man's arrest, police also search his apartment.
And so we confiscate his computer and his phone, which we find.
We didn't find the phone that had connected at Kantatgatan.
But the computer is taken in and is searched by our IT forensics.
Searches had been done from the computer for guns.
Guns of the kind that fit the ammunition
found at the Lindängen crime scene.
Searches for silences have also been carried out.
And it also turns out attempts have been made to remove these searches.
It's naturally of interest.
When IT forensics continue searching the suspect's computer,
they find something else that could be of interest.
It turned out that, in this computer,
he had read online reporting...
where a criminal had been interviewed.
To some degree I get where they're coming from.
Your average person on the street
wants to be safe from criminals. I get that.
But how does it harm them
if some guy in prison gets a visit from his woman?
He has 31 convictions behind him.
There are drug crimes and thefts, but also murder,
and he's done time in most of the country's prisons,
even the heaviest, Kumla and Hall.
In this interview, in those images and video sequences,
the criminal looked extremely similar to Charles the victim.
Police look more closely at the criminal,
and try to find something
that could connect him to the murder of Charles Limerius.
What makes this man interesting is that he lives in the same area,
and, if I remember correctly,
maybe even the same building complex as Charles Limerius.
And that right at the time of the murder, he's been let out on parole
from a longer prison sentence.
And it was a prison sentence
where he had committed an aggravated rape against a woman.
Police continue surveying the criminal,
and look even more thoroughly into his criminal history.
This leads to a discovery that could connect him to the suspect.
We have to rewind back to 1992.
The criminal shoots two men
to death in Malmö.
BOYFRIEND SHOT TO DEATH IN COLD BLOOD
NATIONAL ALARM AFTER DOUBLE MURDER
He's convicted of one murder.
The killing of the other man is dismissed as self-defence.
The man who the criminal is convicted of murdering,
has a daughter called Emma.
And it turns out that Emma
has had a romantic relationship, on and off,
with the suspect. There's the connection.
Between the suspect and the criminal.
Police can also confirm that Emma is the lover
that the suspect has been seen spending time with
when police had him surveilled.
Now police hope for an explanation as to how it all fits together.
In May, 2012, Emma is arrested and interrogated.
Emma worked at a place,
it was a foundation for recovered addicts.
Marianne worked there as well.
Marianne was the woman that the criminal had raped,
and just been released after serving time for it.
Marianne gets to know Emma's mother...
whose husband had been murdered in 1992.
So that's how those three women know one another.
Emma, Annika and Marianne.
So then Emma finds out it was the same criminal who had shot her dad
about 20 years earlier.
Emma then tells this to the suspect.
During interrogations, she describes how he reacted strongly
to what he hears about the criminal's history
and what he did to Emma's father,
and to Marianne.
And he said something like, "Then he's lost his right to live."
So we start wondering...
if he could have committed this murder...
trying to protect Emma, so to speak.
So that's why we thought they were involved in this,
Emma and her mother Annika, and Marianne.
So there's an almost astonishing background,
how people can meet randomly,
and turn out to have a common denominator of this level.
The pieces are beginning to falling into place,
and police seem to have found a connection between the women,
the suspect, and the criminal.
But why was it Charles Limerius who was shot?
Our technical photographers,
they got a still from the film the suspect watched
and we had a photo of Charles Limerius,
and the photographers dressed them in similar clothing...
and put the photos next to each other.
They were wearing their own glasses because they were very similar.
And they looked so incredibly similar
that anyone could have mixed them up.
And they lived in the same stairwell.
And when Charles Limerius walks out, the suspect thinks...
it's the criminal.
That was our understanding.
It was just that on the day the murder took place,
the criminal didn't look exactly the same.
But the suspect didn't know that.
Because he'd only seen the interview that was on the internet.
So he thought it was the person he was after.
So here, we start to see the circumstances that suggest
that this is a shooting gone wrong.
The wrong man was shot.
So Charles Limerius, he had shocking bad luck.
He was simply in the wrong place.
Fact is stranger than fiction in this case.
It's almost like you couldn't be expected to take this seriously
if a book was written about it.
It's so remarkable.
So we'd come so far as to be certain this was a shooting gone wrong.
We had a motive as to why the suspect wanted to shoot someone.
We saw that as well confirmed.
So the police tell my mother their theory,
then she tells my brother and I.
And she tells that it's just what they think happened,
but everything points to it being the truth.
My reaction was two things...
Jesus, what a crazy coincidence!
And, two, quite a relief to know what happened,
and it's not because of something he's done that he was murdered,
it's just a couple of idiots who hire the world's worst assassin
to kill another idiot, and he gets in the way.
And somewhere there, it was...
In all the...
difficult, emotional... stress I'd been through during those weeks...
It was a relief to hear a story that completely...
cleared Dad of any suspicions.
It was really a relief to hear that,
because I'd gone around just thinking...
for ages, "What has he done?"
And you also wonder what other people think he's done.
But if this story gets out somehow...
it feels like... it looks better in his...
karma account at the end of his life.
I have no problem with him being charged with murder.
That the wrong person was murdered makes no difference.
It's murder I'll charge him with.
But there's no technical evidence. It's purely circumstantial.
We had his phone,
which had connected at Kantatgatan the day before, at this time.
It had been there at the time of the crime, which was obviously strong.
We could connect the phone to him.
We had the car he'd bought which was parked out there.
Like I said before, the plastic bags were in the front seat of the car.
His prints were on one of the bags.
But we had no gun.
And he was special.
I remember we were going to question him.
He refused to come down to the interrogation.
He absolutely didn't want to participate.
Despite the suspect's reluctance to be questioned,
the picture of what happened begins to clear up.
Marianne found out when the criminal was to be let out,
and this was relayed to the suspect by Emma's mother, Annika.
And that's when he went out to Kantatgatan, to do reconnaissance.
You can see from the positions that the dates match up very well
with when he got out.
He claimed he'd been at work that day.
And he had, but we test walked and drove where he would have gone,
in various ways, and he would have had plenty of time
to get from work to Kantatgatan.
We never found the murder weapon.
We searched his home and his parents' restaurant.
It wasn't there.
We suspected he had help getting rid of it.
The question now is how involved the three women,
Emma, her mother Annika and Marianne are
in the planned murder of the criminal.
What suggests potential involvement from the women,
and then what do those suspicions look like.
There are a number of texts that were of interest
in connection to the crime.
I think it was Marianne who had sent them to Annika.
When they hear there's been a murder at Lindängen,
it's time to pop the champagne.
Which is...
I would interpret that as joy
that the criminal was murdered.
And this was right after the murder.
Then it wasn't long, maybe an hour or so,
and it was out in the mass media, there was a murder on Kantatgatan.
And then there was a text that something had probably gone wrong.
Between the women.
In Malmö's Lindängen residential area, in the middle of the day,
a man in his 50s is shot to death.
He's not known to police.
So that suggests that they understood that the suspect
had shot the criminal,
and to pop the champagne,
but then that it had gone wrong.
There are also texts between the suspect and Emma,
when he was on Kantatgatan and he called her,
and wanted information about the criminal,
and Emma didn't know, so she called Marianne.
Then relayed it back to him.
So she knew he was going to Kantatgatan.
Based on what I've described,
I eventually charge Emma...
and Annika with accessory to conspiracy to commit murder.
Naturally, referring to the criminal.
And Marianne for failing to report these plans.
This is from the contact, texts, and other interactions I've described
between the women.
Regarding the suspect, I thought it was a very good investigation.
There was a lot of circumstantial evidence
that was a huge problem for him.
Plus we knew that he had a motive, according to what Emma had said.
We discussed whether it would hold up in court,
and Lars Morand said, "If it doesn't, I'll eat my hat."
He often wears a hat.
But a case built on circumstantial evidence is like a chain.
If one little link fails, it brings everything down.
November 27, 2012, the trial begins in Malmö District Court.
Charles Limerius' relatives are present,
following the progress of the trial.
I remember him sitting across from me in the courtroom,
and I received a few questions.
"What do you think your dad thought about this?"
And I just answered, "I don't know, he was murdered."
Then I just sat and glared at the suspected murderer.
The police were like, "Okay, thanks. No more questions for you."
I think I spoke for max three minutes in the courtroom.
Then we went out, and I remember Dad's cousin, Stefan, who I...
always liked a lot, said to me,
"Good. Hard, cold answers. That was good."
That felt good. It was important.
I didn't see the accused after that.
But after that, we see all three women in the corridor,
and I think all of them were crying.
But it was hard to feel empathy for them, to be totally honest.
The innocent 48-year-old father of two was shot to death with six shots
outside a video store in the Lindängen residential area.
The 28-year-old man shot from just two metres distance, planning,
according to the prosecution, to kill a 54-year-old man
who lives in this area.
But at the time of the murder, he managed to mistake the two men.
He shot the wrong person.
Three women are also being charged
for their involvement in the 48-year-old's murder.
The now 29-year-old man has consistently denied the crime,
but was sentenced today to 15 years' prison.
The suspect appeals the conviction,
but the Court of Appeal raises the sentence to 16 years' prison.
The women, however, are completely acquitted of any involvement.
We investigated, and couldn't prove they knew he'd kill the criminal,
because that was the goal.
But that he was maybe going to assault him,
or do something, they could probably figure that out.
But absolutely not a murder.
No, it's no disappointment to me. I...
I understand how the District Court and Court of Appeal have reasoned,
and I accept it. It...
They made different assessments than I do, it is what it is. It happens.
It's unique in many ways, it's unique for me,
I still don't think the circumstances will reoccur
with this background that's been described,
and the random coincidence between people with a common denominator.
I'll never forget this case.
It has so many remarkable details,
so I'll remember it.
This is an unusual murder in that the wrong person was shot,
and the man who is shot is a completely normal father of two,
who has absolutely nothing to do with the criminal world.
I think that's terrible.
That day, as I said, we were playing basketball in Lund.
The reason Dad walks out the door when he does,
is to go to Lund to, well...
partly to watch my basketball match,
but also because it was a Lund Game Day,
which are on the 2nd to the 5th of January every year.
You can't help sitting and thinking,
God, did I have to go to that tournament?
If I hadn't, he might not have even gone out the door,
and stayed home, and then...
Everything would look different today.
I do think about that, definitely.
That, yeah, that...
Why the hell did you have to go to Lund?
Watch kids' basketball? How fun can that be? Yeah...
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