Crime in Sweden - Notorious Criminals and Crimes

Notorious Criminals and Crimes

• Knutby murder (2004) for which Sara Svensson and Pastor Helge Fossmo were convicted.
• Anna Lindh murder (2003) for which Mijailo Mijailović was convicted.
• Björn Söderberg murder (1999) for which neo-Nazis Hampus Hellekant and Björn Lindberg Hernlund were convicted.
• John Hron murder (1995) for which Daniel Hansson and other neo-Nazi was convicted.
• Olof Palme murder (1986) for which Christer Pettersson was convicted, but in a higher instance freed.
• Jacob Johan Anckarström murdered king Gustav III in 1792, which became the subject of Verdi's opera Un Ballo in Maschera. He was executed.
• Clark Olofsson, a life long criminal sentenced for various high-profile crimes. One of the main men behind the Norrmalmstorg robbery (1973), which fostered the term Stockholm syndrome.
• Mattias Flink, a military lieutenant who unprovoked opened fire with an Ak 5 in Falun 1994, killing seven.
• Jackie Arklöv, Tony Olsson and Andreas Axelsson; bankrobbers who in 1999 shot and killed two police officers at Malexander, executing them by head-shot from close range with their own service pistols. See also Murders at Malexander.
• John Ausonius, the "Laser Man", who shot eleven foreign-looking people between 1991–1992, killing one.
• Thomas Quick, serial killer convicted of eight crimes, but confessing 14 others between 1964–1990.