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911, what's your emergency?
I think I just witnessed a murder.
Oh shit, I think I witnessed a murder.
What has happened?
I saw a guy chase another guy, and I called out to him.
The guy was stabbed in the neck a bunch of times, he's dead.
Did you say he's on the ground and he's...
Yeah, he's dead. He's stabbed in the neck.
Oh shit...
Oh shit, what's going on?!
Where are you?
What's the address here?
Tegelgatan 3.
It's at Tegelgatan...
Oh fuck...
He's dead.
Shit, he's fucking dead!
DEATH IN THE PARK
The call came just before 3 AM,
at which point we're at the police station.
What they tell us on the radio is
that there is a witness who's seen a man get stabbed.
We're also told the perpetrator has left the scene.
-Is the perpetrator still there? -No, he ran...
-In which direction did he run? -He ran towards the station.
We're on the scene about five minutes after the call.
We drive in on this street and stop about here.
I think I see a police car coming now.
-Are the police with the man? -Yes, they're here now.
Here is the crime scene, and...
What we see as we arrive is the victim lying on the street here,
and the witness is standing against the wall.
The man is lying on a completely open street in central Örebro.
And it's not only the police who arrive.
Just as we step out of the car, the ambulance arrives at the scene.
So the first thing we do is go up to this man and check on him.
The EMT's could quickly establish that he's already deceased.
So the crime investigation started from that moment.
The violence was extensive.
Multiple stab wounds.
A very unpleasant scene.
The police arrive just five minutes after the murder was committed.
And now they have to, as quickly as possible,
begin chasing the perpetrator.
The witness is clearly in shock and it's difficult to reach him.
He's very worked up,
which is understandable, having witnessed something like this.
The perpetrator is supposed to have gone towards the park.
So we pass the information along to the incoming personnel,
so they'll search that direction
for a potential perpetrator.
While waiting for police dogs to arrive and join the search,
Mohammad cordons off the murder scene,
and a forensic technician is called to immediately secure evidence.
I got a call in the middle of the night from the police station.
They tell me a man has been found dead outside.
I contact a colleague and we go there.
When we arrive, it's an intersection,
there's a tent in the middle of the intersection.
Under the tent is a dead man who has been stabbed.
You can survive losing about one litre of blood,
if you don't get to a hospital at that point, you die.
And I think there was significantly more than one litre of blood.
So even if he had been
brought to a hospital very quickly, he wouldn't have survived.
I would guess there were several litres of blood on the road.
The victim had a wallet on him, attached to a chain.
There were items in the wallet, among them, cash.
This could imply that it wasn't a mugging, but something else.
The wallet also gave us the identity of the victim very early.
The deceased man is Peter, 56 years old.
He's from Örebro and listed at an address
in walking distance from where he was found.
The forensic technicians' work continues,
but the location of the crime scene poses a big challenge.
Obviously one or more people involved in this have been there,
but there have also been hundreds or thousands of other people.
To differentiate shoe prints in gravel or on asphalt
is very complex, or in this case, impossible.
What we have to work on are some blood tracks,
there was a cap on the ground and a croc.
He was wearing one croc and another was on the ground,
so these presumably belonged together.
The cap was interesting, it could be the victim's,
the perpetrator could have dropped it or someone else.
So far, none of the police who went after the murderer
have found anything.
But now they receive back-up from police dogs.
When the dogs arrive,
they get about 100 metres into the park
where they find a jacket, thrown on the ground.
It's just been thrown here, someone just shrugged it off.
That's odd in itself, someone just tossing a jacket on a lawn.
It wasn't worn out or anything, just a jacket, on a lawn.
Close to the crime scene,
and in the direction the perpetrator is supposed to have gone.
It makes the jacket very interesting to us.
So I walk over and put on rubber gloves,
so as not to destroy any potential DNA or fingerprints
that could be on items or the jacket itself.
In one of the pockets I find a receipt.
Someone had been to the supermarket nearby.
Other than the jacket, the dog doesn't mark anything else.
And the murderer seems to be gone without a trace.
The recovered objects are immediately sent for analysis.
But police continue to search the area, hoping to find more leads.
When they went through bins,
hedges and roofs and whatever you can reach,
they found a mora knife in a bin, at the very top of the bin.
This is naturally very interesting.
Is this the murder weapon?
At the initial examination of the body,
the police can confirm that it looks like the victim
has received at least 25 stab wounds,
many around the neck area.
But in spite of the police finding multiple leads on the crime scene,
they can't be certain they're relevant to the murder,
since it is a public place.
In this situation, the investigators have very little to work with.
At this point, in the morning, I'm on duty as
head of the emergency investigation unit in Örebro.
I'm lead investigator on another murder.
But in the morning, at eight, I have to take on responsibility
for a new murder that occurred during the night.
With this type of crime, the first days and hours
are incredibly important and decisive for the investigation.
How much information we manage to gather and what we can find.
And how fast we can find it.
And I am pretty much assigned unlimited resources, initially.
And when all we have is a discarded jacket and a mora knife,
we start profiling the victim to see
if anything in his life can give us any clues to what has happened.
So a search is conducted in Peter's apartment,
pretty quickly, to try to get some clarity.
When searching the victim's apartment, there was nothing
to indicate him having had guests or a connection to anyone.
It was a completely normal, tidy apartment.
Nothing to provide any clues to advance the investigation.
The police do note that there are things in Peter's life
that deviate from the norm.
The victim didn't have a phone on him.
And we know that in pretty much 100% of cases,
people carry a phone.
And he didn't have one, that was pretty unique.
Was it stolen, or why didn't he have one?
And it turned out, during the search,
his phones were in his apartment.
It also turned out that he
didn't have much contact with anyone other than his mum.
He leads a very quiet life and has very limited contact with the world,
in form of social media or the internet in general.
He lives a quiet life
and there really isn't anything in his background
that can shine any light on what has happened.
The Örebro police have released a statement,
that the person who was found murdered in Örebro last night
is a 56 year old man from Örebro.
Anders Sjöberg is the police spokesperson.
According to the police on site, they've made some finds,
what can you say about those?
We have made some finds, I can confirm that much,
but I can't go into details about what we've found.
The profiling shows that Peter lives a very routine life.
Every morning he goes to a local café.
After that, he goes to his favourite shop,
the record store, Bananamoon.
He looked like a hard rocker,
denim jacket and, you know, fit and pretty tall.
Longer hair, so yeah...
You could guess he's into metal.
He was into CD's, most of the hard rock CD's are on this wall.
Peter was a regular here for several years.
He was often here, not every day, but at least a few days a week.
He fit into the category of regulars who are a bit odd.
We have a fair few odd characters who like music and film and so on.
Working here is a bit like bartending,
you talk to people a lot.
I know I tried to drum up conversations with Peter,
trying to make him smile and talk a bit more...
But it was never much more than him asking for specific CDs,
and "Hi," and "Thanks," and all that...
Central Örebro isn't very big, it's a small city core.
And of course, if something like this can happen in the centre,
you don't feel completely safe when you're out.
Peter was very calm and timid.
That he could have somehow gotten into a fight was hard to grasp.
In the continued profiling of Peter's life and routines
a detail is uncovered
that becomes highly significant to the investigation.
The murder occurs on Sunday night,
and, on Mondays, Peter receives money in his account.
So... we request CCTV tapes from the local area,
and one is from an ATM across from the park where this happens,
and we get the material relatively quickly.
And we see there that Peter makes a 200 kronor withdrawal from the ATM.
He makes the withdrawal at 2:36,
and dies just 10 minutes later.
Despite Peter's wallet being found on him, not having been stolen,
Niklas and his colleagues, with help of the CCTV footage,
begin to formulate a working theory.
Someone might have seen him withdraw money at that time,
and the theory is that it's a robbery that's gotten out of hand.
It's not particularly often that something like this happens.
Usually, the victim and perpetrator have some form of relationship.
As police believe this was a random murder,
there is extra high demand on the investigation.
And it may be so that the only way to get hold of the perpetrator
is through the traces and evidence retrieved from the crime scene.
We find out pretty fast that three people have seen the murder occur.
A witness from the street calls the police.
Then there's the man in the building right over where it happens.
And there's a woman in the window on the other side of the road.
One witness describes a certain appearance,
a certain number of garments.
The second describes a different appearance with other clothes,
and the third describes something else again.
It was dark outside with limited opportunities to see things,
especially if it's something traumatic that is seen.
It's actually very hard to relate what you've actually seen.
And that, of course, poses problems for the investigation.
How should these witness statements be handled,
considering they describe three different people?
So we can't completely trust the witness statements.
As the witnesses' descriptions contradict one another,
they have to rely even more
on the hope that analysis of the seized objects
from the crime scene will yield results.
When police receive the test results from the mora knife
that was found in a garbage bin next to the park,
it turns out that it has nothing to do with the crime.
Analysis of the jacket, also found in the park, is still not complete,
and despite being uncertain whether it does belong to the perpetrator,
police continue to investigate the receipt in one of the pockets.
In the jacket's left pocket, there's a crumpled up receipt,
from February 2018.
We can distinguish most of what's on the receipt.
We can see a purchase has been made at ICA Ekershallen,
a grocery store very close to this location.
And they paid with card.
So we immediately want to find out who owns this card
and made the purchase.
So a request is made to the bank pretty much right away,
to find out the identity of the owner of this card.
The bank linked the card to someone.
The person lives in Örebro.
His address in Örebro is Västra Bangatan 7.
It's a student apartment.
We immediately begin profiling this individual.
This becomes a person of great interest to us.
But it turns out he's in Stockholm at the time.
On August 1st, a police patrol is sent to Stockholm
to hold and interrogation.
The man denies involvement in the crime,
and claims he was in Stockholm at the time of the murder.
Police continue to question the man, and show him the jacket.
He identifies the jacket as his.
But he really doesn't explain anything.
He says the last time he saw the jacket,
it was hanging in his student room at Västra Bangatan 7.
And it was hanging there when he locked up to go home for the summer,
so, in his mind, it should still be hanging there.
So his apartment immediately becomes of great interest to us,
so a police patrol goes to the location
as soon as we get this information on the afternoon of August 1st.
If the student is telling the truth,
how has the jacket come to be in the park?
Has someone else been in the apartment?
And might they even still be there?
Investigator Tony Odhner and his colleagues search the apartment.
We try the door, and it's locked.
We try the adjacent doors here, and they're locked.
We figure we'll check the area
to see if there's any other way to get into the stairwell.
When we get here, we try these doors too, and one of them is unlocked.
And it leads down into the basement,
which then leads to the stairwell.
When we reach the corridors there,
we see there are several apartments on each floor,
but there are no names on the doors.
So we have to go up the stairs and try all the doors.
And, eventually, the last door we try is open.
We figure it could be the right apartment.
There are documents and photographs of the apartment's tenant.
And he said the apartment was empty.
But we can see that multiple people have been in the apartment.
There are mattresses on the floor, there are empty bottles, plates,
and things that tell us there have been people there.
And when we go through the apartment, we discover a man there.
We start talking to him.
He's hesitant with his answers,
and we doubt the validity of the information he gives us.
He says his friend has borrowed the apartment,
and that they've been there a day or two.
As Tony continues to interrogate the man in the apartment,
he notes a detail that piques his interest.
This man has a wound on his finger that he's bandaged up.
In cases like these, where there are many stab wounds,
it's very common for the perpetrator to cut themselves.
Considering the knife would get quite slippery,
and one would need to have to strike quite powerfully to do this,
they often slip and cut themselves.
So this is extra interesting to us.
I decide at this point that the 34-year-old man should be
picked up for questioning back at the police station.
Police cordon off the apartment, and call in forensic technicians
who immediately make interesting discoveries.
There are bloodstains in somewhat unusual locations.
For example, on a frame of the door leading into the apartment.
And in the bathroom. And these are sent for analysis.
Another decision I make immediately is to search the bins in the area,
and I don't think it's long before we find something
in one of the bins.
In one of the bins we search is a bag.
The bag is taken out, and we see it contains wet clothes.
There was a pair of tracksuit pants, no blood on them,
but there was blood on a t-shirt.
There was a pair of underpants with small bloodstains on them.
And there was a pair of black shoes with blood spatter on them.
These were sent down to the Linköping lab in a hurry,
to find out whose blood was on the garments.
Analysis of the clothes takes awhile,
but police quickly find out whose blood was found in the apartment.
The blood we find on the door frame is very likely Peter's.
So we feel strongly that we've ended up in the right apartment.
A person has been arrested and detained
on suspicion of murder in west Örebro,
says prosecutor and preliminary investigator Karin Lindell.
I can say it's a man in his 30s.
What does he have to say about the suspicions directed at him?
The person has been notified of suspicion and denies the crime.
Further questioning of this person will be conducted during the day,
with defence counsel present.
The 34-year-old says
this is the first night he has spent in the apartment
and that he's been brought there by a friend
whom he only knows by the name Mo.
Mo is a well-known individual in Örebro.
He's previously popped up in various cases previously.
He's a rather disruptive individual.
The 34-year-old man is also seen to by a medical examiner
and we can quickly confirm his wound is old and hasn't happened recently.
After the interrogation and analysis results regarding his wounds,
suspicions against the 34-year-old man weaken,
and it is now of utmost importance to find the other man
who seemed to be in the apartment.
Mo...
a few years ago he was involved in a fairly spectacular occurrence.
Two years before this case, in 2016,
I was called to an address in Örebro
where a man had been walking around, early in the morning,
and banged on a bunch of windows, calling for help.
When police arrive, there's a man, sitting on the sidewalk
with his hand cut off and two large cuts on his forehead.
Turns out it's Mo.
And when I get to the stairwell of the address,
and there was blood sprayed all over the place from his injury.
And the part of his hand that was missing
was found in the building's garbage room.
Police decide to lay in wait at the apartment to see if Mo returns.
My colleague stands on the balcony and looks for him.
From there, he sees a person who looks like Mo approaching by bike.
And I stand in the stairwell and wait for him to enter.
But I see him ride past.
I'm looking to see if half his hand is missing.
I see that it is.
I climb further into the stairwell so he doesn't see me,
and next time I see him, he's riding fast on his bike
in the other direction.
And he's probably seen us or noticed a police car outside the building.
We run out and get in the car and try to follow him.
We don't find him.
After the chase, Mo seems to have disappeared without a trace.
At the same time, police receive more analysis results
that show Mo's DNA and fingerprints in the apartment.
But, as nothing new emerges from questioning the 34-year-old man,
police decide to contact the tenant
of the student apartment again,
in the hope that he has more information.
We ask this student why there are two people in his apartment.
He has no explanation other than that he has, at some point,
misplaced a key to his apartment.
And we can't get a better explanation as to how these people
come in, or get into his apartment.
But they have no connection to one another.
These individuals are homeless,
have likely discovered it's possible to get into this basement entrance,
and have used it as a residence for at least a few days.
With a suspected killer on the loose,
there is great concern he will strike again.
But police receive a tip from the public that changes the situation.
A call comes in on the 6th of August
about a man who's behaved quite unpleasantly...
and appears to be very inebriated.
And when police arrive at the location, which is an outdoor area,
just outside of Örebro, they find Mo.
Mo is quite inebriated when police find him.
So it's not a particularly dramatic arrest,
he's just handcuffed and driven to jail in Örebro.
Mo is basically silent throughout the entire investigation.
He seems more or less uninterested in answering questions
or participating in interrogations at all.
He's said he can't be bothered, he doesn't want to,
and that they'll have to carry him down to be interrogated.
He can't be bothered going down and answering questions.
He says just a few things throughout the police investigation.
He says nothing about the incident or that he was there at all.
FL: IS IT YOU IN THE PICTURE? MT SITS QUIETLY
He just denies everything. What he does do is burp and pass wind.
When asked questions by the interrogators,
he behaves very apathetically and disinterested.
We really don't get anything sensible out of him.
MT: (BURPS) FL: DO YOU DENY IT?
MT: CRYSTAL CLEAR. MT: IT IS?
MT: ABSOLUTELY. TOTALLY INNOCENT.
Since Mo neither confesses to the crime
nor provides any information that could advance the case,
it now becomes vital to secure further evidence
that can either link Mo to the crime or dismiss him from it.
We know that Mo moves frequently in central suburbs,
so we gather film from various places we know he frequents,
including an ICA supermarket in central Örebro.
And in this ICA supermarket, we find Mo the day before the murder.
And the clothes we find outside the apartment,
that are wet and bloodstained,
they are a great match to the clothes Mo is wearing
in the CCTV.
The combination of the tracksuit pants, t-shirt and shoes,
they're found in the same bag.
Mo is wearing the same combination of clothes,
the day and days before the murder,
so he can be tied to these clothes with fairly good forensic strength,
that they are his clothes.
The clothes from the bin, which can now be linked to Mo,
give police a lead.
When we fish the clothes out, they smell almost like river water,
boggy river water.
And River Svartån runs near where they're found in the bin.
And this leads us to believe that whoever had these clothes
has jumped into River Svartån that runs right by this apartment
and tried to wash themselves.
Since there was quite a lot of blood on the perpetrator when he fled.
And if the murder weapon might have landed in the river at that time...
So we requisition divers from the maritime police in Stockholm,
who come and sweep River Svartån
and dive for the murder weapon.
But, unfortunately, they find nothing.
But hope of securing the murder weapon is renewed
when police receive an object found in River Svartån.
There's something called "magnet fishing",
where, instead of fishing for fish,
private individuals have a rod with a magnet on it.
They cast it in from a bridge and reel in magnetic objects.
In this case, a magnet fisher found a knife from River Svartån.
It could be connected to the area, so that was interesting, of course.
But the knife had been in River Svartån for such a long time,
that it couldn't possibly have anything to do with the murder.
But just a couple of days later,
investigators make an unexpected discovery.
In connection with the apartment search,
the tenant of the apartment arrives.
The tenant goes through which things are his
and which things have turned up after he left.
And he points to where things have been and what has been moved
and he finds a knife
in the drawer under the oven.
It's his knife, but doesn't keep it there.
He keeps it in a knife holder on the kitchen bench.
So we knew one of the other two people must have put it there.
So that's sent to the lab for analysis.
And we get the result that there's blood on the knife,
but it's just animal blood.
Despite the negative analysis results,
police refuse to ignore their instinct
that this could be the murder weapon.
They request another examination,
and this time, suggest the handle is removed.
Shortly, we get a response from the lab
saying Peter's blood has been found inside the knife's handle.
Mo can be linked to the apartment,
but since his DNA is not found on the suspected murder weapon,
he can't be linked to the crime scene.
Hope is now pinned to the jacket that was found in the park,
and that has been in the lab for analysis.
We get results from the lab regarding the down jacket,
and two DNA profiles have been identified.
The first is from the student who lives in the apartment,
which isn't strange, given it's his jacket.
And DNA profile number two is Mo's.
It's also the highest rating.
So it's extremely likely Mo has taken the jacket and worn it
in the park.
Now come the results of the analysis of the clothes found in the bag
in the bin outside the apartment.
These shoes we found in the bin...
Mo's DNA is in the shoes.
And it's the highest degree they can identify at the lab.
It's his DNA.
And on the outside of the shoes, they've found Peter's blood,
also at the highest rating.
So we now have Mo's DNA inside the shoes and Peter's on them.
And since we now know,
police arrive quickly and cordon off the apartment,
there's no explanation
as to how Peter's blood could have gotten on the shoes
other than that it's the perpetrator's shoe.
At this point, it feels like we have a really strong case against Mo.
His is the only DNA in the shoes that have Peter's blood on them.
We also have a pair of underpants with Mo's DNA,
and an imprint of Peter's blood on the back.
We have a murder weapon inside the apartment with Peter's blood on it,
where Mo has evidently resided.
So we have very robust, technical evidence against Mo at this point.
A man was found dead near a park in Väster in late July,
and the 28-year-old suspected of his murder was arrested a week later.
Meanwhile, suspicions against a man in his mid 30s
who was first arrested for the murder,
have been dismissed entirely.
After six months of investigation, the trial begins in early 2019
against Mo, in the Örebro District Court.
He's charged with single-handedly murdering Peter,
with 25 stab wounds, in the summer of 2018.
Mo insists, throughout the investigation,
that he doesn't want a defendant present.
He receives one anyway, due to the seriousness of the crime.
But he doesn't want the defendant representing him during questioning,
and he speaks for himself even during the main hearing.
He doesn't say terribly much.
He basically just denies the crime and has no reasonable explanation
as to how his DNA and Peter's blood ended up on the clothes.
He has no reasonable explanation.
He just says it's wrong and that he's innocent.
That's basically all he says.
Meanwhile, a psychiatric evaluation is requested for Mo,
with results that he didn't suffer from any serious mental disorder
at the time of the crime.
So there's nothing to stop him receiving prison time.
In April, 2019, Mo is sentenced to 17 years prison and deportation
by Örebro District Court.
A sentence he doesn't appeal.
Despite a successful investigation and a conviction,
the question remains
as to why Peter was murdered, that night in July 2018.
Our theory is that it's a robbery that got out of control,
where Peter hasn't wanted to let go of his wallet of money,
and puts up a fight.
Peter has ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time,
and unfortunate circumstances have caused him to become a victim.
This is a robbery of 200 kronor that ends in murder.
It's an uncommon crime.
Especially when the victim and perpetrator don't know one another.
What distinguishes this case
is partly that the victim isn't in any kind of criminal environment.
There are no digital traces.
It seems a completely unprovoked and unnecessary assault.
I thought, "How the hell are we going to find out who this is?"
Luckily, this student hadn't thrown out his receipt
after buying cheese and shower gel.
The fact that he didn't throw out his receipt
is the reason someone was convicted for committing this crime.
An ordinary, kind, caring citizen is assaulted and murdered
for being in the wrong place and the wrong time,
and happens to meet a completely crazy perpetrator.
You think, "That could just as easily have been me,
or anyone I know," in cases like this.
That's what makes it so horribly nasty.
That it's unprovoked,
and that the perpetrator and victim don't know each other.
It's the kind of thing that creates fear in a society.
That such acts of insanity can occur.
And that it would happen to Peter, that's also incomprehensible.
He was basically anonymous. Truly.
So, no... It was horrible.
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