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.
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