During Tuesday, the legal end point was set in the case of Malin Lindström. The Supreme Court then decided not to take up the conviction against the 44-year-old, who was charged for the second time for the murder of 16-year-old Malin from Örnsköldsvik in 1996. Since new DNA evidence came to light, which led to a retrial and a new trial in the Court of Appeal in Sundsvall.
The new evidence in the case was produced by the cold case group in the police region north, stationed in Skellefteå.
Now the investigators are putting their teeth into the still unsolved double murder of the estranged couple Tor Öberg and Gerd Wiklund on Tor’s farm in Brattås outside Härnösand on May 31, 2005.
Extensive material
At the end of September, they will arrive in Härnösand, where they will initially receive a briefing from the local police.
– That’s right, we’re going to meet at the police station, confirms retired criminal inspector Jan-Ola Nordin, who was the Härnösand police’s preliminary investigation leader in the case during the first period.
Next, they will visit the crime scene, the farm in Brattås where Tor’s daughter Barbro now lives.
The police have high hopes for the DNA found at the crime scene, which according to the police is likely to be the perpetrators – but have so far been tight-lipped about what type of DNA it is and its quality.
– There is extensive material to read up on in the case, so it will take a lot of time, says cold case investigator Ola Ehrenberg.
Listen to the interview with him above.