The murder at Kungsholmen: The find led to the killer

75-year-old woman appears to have been an accidental victim

A box of women’s shoes, unopened medicine packages and a bloody kitchen knife.

The eerie find in a trash bin led the police to discover that a 75-year-old woman had been murdered.

The suspected killer was arrested and confessed, but has now died under unclear circumstances.

The janitor found the strange box. It was printed in a wastebasket in the courtyard of a home for the elderly on Kungsholmen in central Stockholm.

– He called me and said he had found something strange. I went down to look. It was a big Willys bag with a lot of strange stuff, says the group manager of the accommodation Fredrik in the podcast Evening newspaper Krim.

At the top of the box were what looked like men’s clothes, jeans and a sweater, with blood stains. Underneath were, among other things, a handbag, a pair of broken glasses, a bloody ceramic shard and bloody socks.

The colleagues at the nursing home immediately got a bad feeling.

The worst had happened

Fredrik called 112, but there he did not get the response he had expected.

– I told you that there was a woman’s name on the medicine packages. And their answer was that you can then google it and see if she lives nearby. Then maybe you can go and leave the things, they said. But that can’t really be our job, I thought.

Fredrik stood his ground and insisted that the police had to come and take care of the box. After a while, a patrol came to the residence.

The police then went to the woman’s home, whose name was on the medication.

It was immediately clear that the worst had happened. The 75-year-old woman was lying dead in a pool of blood on the floor of her living room.

Kitchen knife and flower pots

A 23-year-old man was charged with murdering the elderly woman. The act appears to be completely random.

He went in to see her because her apartment door was unlocked. He then stabbed her with a kitchen knife and smashed flower pots against her head.

Fredrik has thought a lot about the fact that it is thanks to the fact that he and his colleagues reacted and raised the alarm that the police quickly discovered what had happened.

– It actually feels very good. If we had just shrugged our shoulders, we don’t know how long she might have been there.

– What feels a bit sad is that you had to wait for them to come out to collect the stuff when it was so serious in the end, says Fredrik.

The perpetrator is dead

The trial against the 23-year-old was paused so that his mental status could be investigated.

But in the meantime at the Forensic Medicine Agency’s facility in Flemingsberg, the man died.

The inmates must be monitored around the clock. How the 23-year-old died has not been made public.

The Forensic Medicines Agency has reported itself to IVO, the Inspectorate for Care and Care. It is to be investigated whether something has broken in connection with the man’s death.

As the accused is dead, the prosecution has been dropped.