A 45-year-old man has been arrested on probable grounds suspected of the double murder in Brattås in 2005. The man is suspected of the murders of Tor Öberg and Gerd Wiklund, a case being solved with the help of DNA-based technology. A new law on DNA-based genealogy in murder investigations came into force last year, enabling the arrest. Former preliminary investigation leader Jan-Ola Nordin was one of the first at the murder scene on May 31, 2005.
Tor Öberg and Gerd Wiklund were murdered on a farm in Brattås outside central Härnösand in May 2005. Police suspected a crime and secured DNA traces from an unknown person. Barbro Öberg, Tor Öberg's daughter, discovered what had happened when she came to the farm two days later. Both Tor and Gerd were found brutally beaten to death, apparently with an axe, inside the barn.
The 45-year-old man was arrested in absentia on Tuesday and apprehended on Wednesday. The man has been requested to be detained, with the detention hearing to be held on Friday in Ångermanland District Court. On Friday, he was detained on suspicion of murder. This led to suspicions against a 45-year-old man, whose DNA matched the crime scene trace, strengthening suspicions and leading to his arrest.
I have goosebumps all over my body. I asked the police if she was joking with me when she called and told me this.
The suspected man lived at an address in Härnösand for several years, almost five kilometers from the murder scene, and stayed there a couple of years after the murders. The man lives alone in a one-room apartment where police have put up a cordoned-off sign after the arrest. The man denies the crime, according to his defense attorney Johan Lavås. The suspect had a stable and high income but saw a drastic change a few years ago, going from earning nearly 700,000 SEK annually to zero-tax status within five years.
Former preliminary investigation leader Jan-Ola Nordin was one of the first at the murder scene on May 31, 2005. The investigation is now entering a new phase that will provide information on how the case was handled from the beginning.
The motive for the murders remains unknown, with speculation including robbery, but no money appeared stolen.
Barbro Öberg describes feeling unreal after over 20 years of waiting for a suspect to be apprehended.
Artist Moto Boy (Oskar Humlebo) was wrongly identified on social media as the suspect in the Brattås murders. Oskar Humlebo received a text from a close friend on Thursday about being pointed out as the murderer on platforms like Flashback.
Two people were arrested on Friday in Kumla suspected of murder, but have now been released as suspicions against them have weakened. The two arrested in Kumla are a man in his 40s and a woman in her 30s. A person in his 40s was found dead near some rental houses in Kumla, leading to the arrests. A 25-year-old man arrested for the murder of a woman found dead in Hallsberg on Monday evening was released on Thursday as he is no longer suspected. A man arrested for the murder of a woman in Degerfors earlier in the week was detained on Thursday morning but later released due to new information weakening suspicions.
A man and woman previously detained on suspicion of the murder of Göran in Luleå were sought for detention again on Friday. The woman denies the crime and contested the detention. The suspected man, in his 60s, is in custody in Skövde, while the woman, in her 50s, is detained in Luleå until April 17.
Barbro Öberg expressed joy and relief at the arrest, saying 'It's fantastic. Finally, finally.'
A girl of middle school age was hit by a car outside Kristianstad near Tollarp, seriously injured and taken to hospital by ambulance. The accident occurred around quarter to one on Wednesday. Two police officers were injured during training at sea with the maritime police outside Dragsö in Karlskrona, taken to hospital by ambulance. A man in his 50s was seriously injured and another man in his 50s was slightly injured in the Karlskrona training accident. The alarm about the Karlskrona accident came at quarter to eleven on Wednesday morning, and a workplace accident report is being prepared.
A man was found injured in Hageby in Norrköping at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, with the incident investigated as aggravated assault and police seeking a perpetrator. Police have cordoned off an area and are conducting investigative measures in Norrköping, with no one arrested or suspected currently. The man in Norrköping was taken to hospital with unclear injuries.
The preliminary investigation into breach of confidentiality, where three Swedish Tax Agency chiefs were served suspicion, has been closed, as the prosecutor found no objective grounds to prove a crime. Swedish Tax Agency Director-General Katrin Westling Palm is resigning on May 18, having been one of the three chiefs investigated. The suspicions arose after the chiefs wrote on the Tax Agency's internal and external websites about businessman Ola Nordquist, who has been in dispute with the agency for years.
The preliminary investigation into suspected poisonings at Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala has been closed, as it cannot be proven the suspect committed the crime. In December last year, a woman was detained on suspicion of aggravated assault after four hospital employees fell ill from suspected poisoning.
Broken bottles were found hidden beneath the surface in the children's sandpit at a preschool in Örebro. A three-year-old girl and her father died after fire engulfed their apartment in south-central Sweden on Saturday morning. A court in Sweden ordered a university to pay several thousand dollars in damages to three women refused admission in favour of male students with lower grades. A man who stopped a drunk driver in a village near Örebro became caught in the car and was dragged 25 metres as the driver pulled away. A 17-year-old girl who stabbed a 16-year-old boy to death in Örebro has been sentenced to four years institutional care, the maximum sentence from Örebro district court. A 39-year-old resident of Örebro who attacked several disabled women and stole their stockings has been sentenced to one and a half years in prison. A 15-year-old girl is being prosecuted in central Sweden for allegedly having unprotected vaginal and oral sex with a man while she knew she was HIV-positive.
A Norwegian citizen was found dead in the detention center in Uddevalla on Sunday, charged last week with suspected murder of a close female relative outside Strömstad in January. The previously arrested man and the deceased man lived in the same room in the detention center.