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a deceased suspect, the case remains legally unsolved and was closed in 2020, with the main suspect's designation later withdrawn in 2025.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.
The files run from 1986 to 2008. The 1980s hold the most, with 1 file. The oldest is Assassination of Olof Palme, from the 1980s.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (2) and hate crime cases (1).
1 file of the 3 has coverage attached: 1 video, podcast or documentary from 1 creator.
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3. By status: 1 cold and 2 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Assassination of Olof Palme, from the 1980s. Open the file
Paolo Macchiarini medical crimes, with 1 video, podcast or documentary linked from its file. Open the file
Kendall Rae (1 case).
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