Tells about the plans for police • The 28-year-old has confessed to the brutal hammer murder
The man who confessed to the murder of a 74-year-old woman in Gnosjö traveled by train to Gothenburg four months after the murder and checked into a hotel with the intention of killing another person. With him he had a hunting knife and an air pistol in the form of a Glock.
The plan was never to return from Gothenburg. First he would kill, and then allow himself to be captured. The 28-year-old had a desire to get away from society, and saw a life sentence for murder as the solution to his problems.
“I wanted to kill someone else,” he says in questioning and adds:
“I was afraid that I would be caught. So then I thought that it could be finished in Gothenburg. When I first went there, I thought I wouldn’t be coming home after that.”
Stood by the door and listened
But there was never a crime in Gothenburg.
“When I went there, my idea was to kill someone in the hotel, a cleaning lady or something. But when I managed to be there for a while, I felt that I wasn’t ready to go there yet, to be caught.”
“Once upon a time, you stood in the door and listened,” adds the man and states that it would probably have gotten bloody.
The 28-year-old believes that it did not suit him to kill in a hotel. So after abandoning the thoughts of a murder in Gothenburg, he says that he instead tried to take advantage of the time, and relax at the hotel and in a nearby shopping center.
“I go to the mall, like. Almost every day. Walk around there and check. And I probably bought something. I don’t know. Something. Cooked food,” he says of his continued stay in the city.
Went out armed in Gnosjö
After the Gothenburg trip, he again shifted his focus to Gnosjö. In questioning, the man says that on at least five occasions he went out armed with the aim of killing, but that it didn’t happen any more times after the first.
His own theory is that he wanted it too much and that all the times he went out without succeeding in carrying out another murder created a mental block in him.
“I have touched it too much for me,” he says in questioning when he recounts the events in Gnosjö.
Left to himself
After ten months at large, the man contacts the police and takes responsibility for the murder of the woman in Gnosjö. The man states in the tip to the police that the only reason he is turning himself in is because he is in debt.
“I felt that it had come to an end. That was probably why. I couldn’t afford to pay the rent or anything, so I knew it was time.”
In police questioning, he says that he regrets not killing another person before turning himself in.
“I still have thoughts and fantasies and such,” says the 28-year-old.
The man is indicted on three counts, for murder and two counts of preparation for murder. The trial begins in the Jönköping district court on Wednesday, January 8.