Who was Sture Bergwall aka Thomas Quick? Sture Bergwall was born on April 26, 1950, in Falun, Sweden. Bergwall grew up in Korsnäs with his six siblings. At 14 he realised he was gay and took to ...

A case involving cannibalism and 39 murders that rocked Sweden’s liberal establishment to its foundations Ah, Sweden! Lakes, forests and islands; glorious summers (and treble-glazing to take care of ...

The Confessions of Thomas Quick, a documentary film airing tonight on Channel 4, tells of how Bergwall explained his crimes. He had suffered, he said, a childhood at the hands of depraved parents; ...

A loner from an early age, Thomas Quick went on to become Sweden's most notorious serial killer, openly confessing to the gruesome murders of more than 30 people. Held for decades in a psychiatric ...

Margit Norell - the woman behind the serial killer that was not there. She was a psychotherapist at Säters psychiatric clinic and supervised the psychologists and therapists in the 1990s treatment of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At the time of James Bulger’s murder by two young boys in the early 1990s, then prime minister John Major ...

Hannes Rastam, trans. from the Swedish by Henning Koch. Canongate (IPG dist.), $17.95 trade paper (460p) ISBN 978-1-78211-070-5 Investigative journalist Rastam (1956–2012)—who tragically died the day ...

A Swedish court has ruled that Sture Bergwall, who was cleared of murder a year ago after over 20 years locked up as Sweden's most prolific serial killer, is no longer obliged to undergo assisted ...