In the Mind of a Murderer

We examine Kjell-Åke Johansson, one of Sweden's worst sadists. For several months he tortures a woman on a farm outside Örebro so badly that she eventually dies. But this is not the first time.

One summer's day in June 2017, Edvin Gyllensvaan tapes an elderly couple to two kitchen chairs and cuts their throats. The father of small children with no previous convictions is an enigma to the police.

Mikael Hagelin is only 17 years old when he kills his mother with forty stab wounds. After four years of youth care, he meets his dream girl. It will not be long before Mikael also kills her.

The Långshyttan murder became one of Sweden's most noticed cases in 2016, when a group of eleven people together plan and carry out the murder of 61-year-old Madeleine.

Tova Moberg, 19, is in the power of her boyfriend Billy Fagerström. He totally controls her and subjects her to brutal abuse. In her diary, she describes the torture and her fear of dying.

Janne Tuomela becomes known as "The Smiling Butcher Killer", after he kills his partner in March 2006. He keeps her body on the balcony before dismembering her and dumping her body parts in a lake.