January 10, 2004 murdered Alexandra Fossmo25, in the small community Gränsta, outside Knutby in Uppsala County. Her neighbor, David Lindeis also shot in the Knutby drama.
The drown is performed by the then 26-year-old child girl Sara Svenssonon the advice of Alexandra’s spouse, pastor Helge Fossmo.
All involved were somehow involved in the Philadelphia Assembly in Knutby.
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Police outside Helge Fossmo’s residence. (Sven-Olof Ahlgren/TT)
Helge Fossmo had started a sexual relationship with both Sara Svensson and neighboring wife. According to the police, the motive for the shootings in the Knutby drama should have been that he wanted to clear conceivable obstacles out of the way.
The child girl, on the other hand, meant that God had ordered her to perform the deeds and that she acted alone.
One explanation the court did not buy who sentenced Sara Svensson to forensic psychiatric care for murder and attempted murder and Helge Fossmo to life imprisonment for the instigation of murder and instigation for attempted murder.
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“The bride of Christ” engaged with Jesus
Alexandra’s sister, Åsa Waldauduring the time of the murder pastor in the same congregation as Helge Fossmo, and was therefore the subject of enormous media attention.
Åsa Waldau was given the nickname “Christ’s bride”, when she “engaged” in 1999 with Jesus, which was executed by Helge Fossmo.
The name hints at a concept coined in the Old Testament where Israel is described as “Christ’s bride”. Instead, the Knutby Assembly’s own interpretation meant that Åsa Waldau would become Christ’s bride in life after death.
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The murder in Knutby shook the country. (Tomas Oneborg/TT)
The TIRSAPROFETIAN is the name of a number of written documents in the congregation that predicts the deaths of several members. The documents are written about four years before the events in Knutby.
The name refers to Queen Tirsa, one of Åsa Waldaus alias within the congregation.
Helge Fossmo believes that the documents are written by Åsa Waldau and that she was the real leader of the congregation. Fossmo also claims that in 1999 he initiated a Sexual relationship with Åsa Waldau.
“The bride of Christ” has released both record and book
Something that is strongly rejected by Åsa Waldau himself.
– It’s disgusting me. It has never been so, I have never even seen him naked. What an unpleasant person to sit and claim something like that from prison, just to dirty me down, she has said in a Interview with Expressen.
Waldau believes that Fossmo hated her for being a woman and “stronger”. Fossmo thinks he was afraid of Waldau and that she was “scary” when she got angry.
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Helge Fossmo was sentenced to life imprisonment after the Knutby drama. (Passport Register/TT)
After the murder of her sister, Åsa Waldau took the opportunity to capitalize on the epithet “the bride of Christ”. One year after the sister’s death she started Gränsta spa in Knutby.
The same year she released an album called “my heart” and then a book in collaboration with Bert Karlsson which was given the title “The Bride of Christ”. She has also sold paintings for several thousand SEK each.
After a performance in SVT’s “On the track” 2016 where she introduced herself as “Christ’s bride”, Åsa Waldau retired from the public.
“The Bride of Christ” has moved and changed its name
Åsa Waldau moved from Knutby to Nora, in Örebro County and changed last name from Waldau to Jacobsson. She is unmarried today. She put the priesthood on the shelf.
However, the media shadow would end in May 2019 when Åsa Waldau along with two other pastors from the Knutby Assembly were charged with a variety of crimes.
This was everything from abuse and unlawful coercion to sexual exploitation of a person in dependence during the period 2013-2016.
Åsa Waldau – “The Bride of Christ” – convicted of abuse after the Knutby drama. (Jonas Ekströmer/TT)
The congregation in Knutby was forced to close down, And former members have testified about penalism and punishments. They have described the congregation as a sect with “Christ’s bride” in the center of it.
The prosecutor of the case believed that the title “The Bride of Christ” gave Åsa Waldau the highest position in the congregation.
– The belief in God and that what Åsa and the others say are the Word of God that you dare not say. What you are exposed to is due to the fact that you yourself have done wrong, said prosecutor Liselott Herschend to the Småland Post.
“The bride of Christ” was convicted of abuse
In 2020, Åsa Waldau was convicted of having beaten six people. Among other things, she must have bitten a person on her face, kicked the person in her stomach, thumped the person’s head against a wall and stuck a fork in her hand. She denied the crimes, all of which should have been committed after the murder in Knutby in 2004.
Another ex-pastor in Knutby, Emma Gembäckthe wife of one of the accused pastors has testified about the “horror of” Christ.
Police barrier outside Helge Fossmo’s residence. (Björn Larsson Ask/TT)
– Åsa struck me, she made my husband my enemy, Emma Gembäck said to Expressen.
In a letter to the same newspaper Åsa Waldau wrote that it was not she who ruled the congregation and that today she is “despairing” over the image of herself as “the bride of Christ”.
She meant that it was in fact Urban field that checked the course of events. He and Peter Gembäck are the other two who were prosecuted in the case.
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“Knutby had never happened without Åsa”
Peter Gembäck has claimed the opposite. He has said that it was Åsa Waldau who ruled and placed and that it was wrong to give so much power to a person.
“Everything in Knutby had never happened without Åsa, that is my conclusion,” Peter Gembäck said For Aftonbladet.
The trial against Åsa Waldau and the other pastors began on January 14, 2020. On March 13, 2020, the judgment was announced. Åsa Waldau was convicted of abuse. Penalty: community service.
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