16case filesUpdated Jul 18, 2026
Casepin holds 16 case files in Sweden. By legal status, 1 marked unsolved, 1 marked cold, 13 marked solved and 1 marked overturned.
Credit: Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons — portrait of Svante SturePublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenUppsala Castle, Uppsala, Sweden · 1567
The 1567 killing of five imprisoned Swedish nobles and the king's former tutor at Uppsala Castle by King Erik XIV of Sweden and his guards during a period of the king's serious mental disorder.
SOLVEDListenKarolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden · 2008
Thoracic surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, once celebrated as a pioneer of stem-cell-seeded trachea transplants, was convicted in Sweden of causing bodily harm to patients after most of those given his synthetic trachea implants died; he is now serving a prison sentence in Spain.
Sveavägen, Stockholm, Sweden · 1980s
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot dead on a Stockholm street on 28 February 1986 while walking home with his wife; despite one conviction later overturned on appeal and a 2020 prosecutorial conclusion naming a deceased suspect, the case remains legally unsolved and was closed in 2020, with the main suspect's designation later withdrawn in 2025.
SOLVEDListenStockholm and Uppsala, Sweden · 1991
Between August 1991 and January 1992, a gunman Swedish media called 'Lasermannen' (the Laser Man) shot eleven people, most of them immigrants, in the Stockholm and Uppsala area, killing one and seriously wounding several others; he was identified as John Ausonius, arrested in June 1992, and sentenced to life imprisonment in January 1994.
Credit: SkeppCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenUppsala, Sweden · 1998
Fadime Şahindal, a Kurdish-Swedish woman who publicly opposed her family's demand for an arranged marriage, was shot and killed by her father in Uppsala, Sweden, on 21 January 2002, in what Swedish courts and media described as an honour killing.
SOLVEDListenYngsjö, Skåne, Sweden · 1889
Hanna Johansdotter, a young farmer's wife, was strangled at her family's farmhouse in Yngsjö, Sweden, in 1889, and her husband and mother-in-law were convicted of the murder.
SOLVEDListenMalexander, Östergötland, Sweden · 1999
Two Swedish police officers, Robert Karlström and Olle Borén, were shot dead near Malexander on 28 May 1999 following a bank robbery in Kisa, and three men were later convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
SOLVEDListenKnutby, Uppsala County, Sweden · 2004
In January 2004, Alexandra Fossmo was fatally shot and her neighbor Daniel Linde was seriously wounded in Knutby, Sweden; the family's nanny confessed and a local pastor was convicted of instigating the attacks.
SOLVEDListenVetlanda, Sweden · 2022
Tove Tönnies, a 21-year-old woman, was beaten and strangled to death in an apartment in Vetlanda, Sweden, in the early hours of 16 October 2022, after reconciling with an estranged friend following a fight at a nightclub earlier that night; her body was then burned in a wooded area and was not found for roughly three weeks. Johanna Jansson and Maja Hellman were convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment — the first women under 21 in Swedish history to receive that sentence — before an appeals court reduced Jansson's sentence to 16 years and released Hellman, who had already served the sentence handed down on appeal.
The files run from 1567 to 2022. The 1990s hold the most, with 4 files. The oldest is Sture murders, from 1567.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (15), domestic violence cases (2) and kidnapping and abduction cases (2).
4 files of the 16 have coverage attached: 4 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 3 creators. Stephanie Harlowe, Dr. Todd Grande and Kendall Rae have covered the most of them.
Every file is written from cited sources and pinned where it happened, and every person named carries the legal status the record gives them. If you hold information about an unsolved case, contact the investigating agency named in its file rather than posting it publicly. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
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Svante Stensson Sture, Nils Svantesson Sture, Erik Svantesson Sture, Abraham Gustafsson Stenbock, Ivar Ivarsson, Dionysius Beurreus — Credit: Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons — portrait of Svante SturePublic domainSource
File:Fadime Sahindal (cameo).jpg — Credit: SkeppCC BY-SA 4.0Source
File:ElinKrantzImage.jpg — Credit: https://www.gp.se/nyheter/g%C3%B6teborg/m%C3%B6rdade-elin-krantz-missk%C3%B6ter-sig-i-f%C…Editorial useSource
16. By status: 1 unsolved, 1 cold, 13 solved and 1 overturned. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Sture murders, from 1567. Open the file
Sture murders, with 1 video, podcast or documentary linked from its file. Open the file
Stephanie Harlowe (1 case), Dr. Todd Grande (1 case) and Kendall Rae (1 case).
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 18, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
