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Sture Bergwall, 2016

Sture Ragnar Bergwall , from 1980 to 2002 Thomas Quick (born April 26, 1950 in Korsnäs , Falun , Sweden ) is a Swedish citizen who claimed to have killed 33 people. He was sentenced and, after receiving psychotherapy, revoked his confessions . The case sparked a discussion in Sweden about police methods.

Life

Stureberg Wall had since his youth dependent on inhalants . He committed several acts of violence against other men. He was admitted to psychiatric institutions several times.

During a stay in the Säter psychiatric institution after a bank robbery, he told the staff in October 1992 that he had killed an 11-year-old in 1980. At this time he also had his name changed to Thomas Quick (the mother's maiden name), with whom he wanted to build a new existence.

In the period that followed, he confessed to a total of 33 murders that had not yet been resolved. He possibly took the course of events from newspaper archives, which he was able to inspect during open walks in Stockholm libraries. Quick was convicted of the murder of eight people in various trials between 1994 and 2001. Even after the convictions, he remained in the institution in Säter. Quick received psychotherapy.

Quick confided to the journalist Hannes Råstam that he had made false confessions in order to become “an important person for the doctors and for the other inmates”.

After Bergwall revoked all confessions and Hannes Råstam published the results of his own research, five of the eight judgments were initially overturned and the resning (Swedish resning ) of the other proceedings applied for and approved. In the summer of 2013, all remaining murder charges were finally overturned.

On March 19, 2014, the 63-year-old was released after spending 20 years in closed psychiatric hospitals.

The case sparked a public discussion in Sweden about the methods used by the police, as they should have recognized the fact that he had no perpetrator knowledge , and after his confessions they provided the drug addict with "all the medicine he wanted" would have.

literature

  • Hannes Råstam: Fall Thomas Quick . Ordfront, 2012 (Swedish)
    German edition: The case of Thomas Quick: The creation of a serial killer . Heyne, 2013, translated by Nike Karen Müller
  • Dan Josefsson: Mannen som slutade ljuga . Lind & Co, 2013 (Swedish)
    German edition: The serial killer who wasn't - and the psychotherapists who created him . btb-Verlag, 2017, translated by Stefan Pluschkat
  • Tilman Müller: Do you trust this man to have 33 murders? In: Stern , No. 42, October 11, 2012
  • Elizabeth Day: Thomas Quick: the Swedish serial killer who never was . The Observer, October 20, 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handelsblatt ( online )
  2. ↑ Hannes Råstam, Fallet Thomas Quick: att skapa en seriemördare , Ordfront, Stockholm, 2012, ISBN 9789170376047
  3. ^ Judicial scandal in Sweden: alleged serial killer is innocent ; in: Spiegel Online from July 31, 2013
  4. ↑ Sture Bergwall: Swedish 'serial killer' released. BBC News, March 19, 2014, accessed March 19, 2014 .
  5. ^ Justice scandal in Sweden: alleged serial killer is set free after 20 years ; in: Spiegel Online from March 19, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Bergwall, stubborn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bergwall, Sture Ragnar (full name); Quick, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish convicted criminal
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Korsnäs , Falun , Sweden