The Dutch tourists Janny and Marinus Stegehuis are hacked to death with about 50 stab wounds in their tent by Lake Appojaure. The bodies were discovered by the vacationing Järvinen family, who alerted the police.
GW tackles the murder on Ulla Höglund, from the summer of 1970. She is found sexually murdered outside Södertälje. And the suspicions were directed at her husband but after a scandalous legal process he was acquitted.
Linda Chen from Falun disappeared without a trace in August 2009, a week before her wedding. Her partner appealed for tips in the mass media. And a month and a half later, Linda was found dead in a desolate forest area, by her partner.
At the end of May 1986, a married Kurdish couple is found murdered in a natural area outside Eskilstuna. The police initially suspect Iraqi security service to have something to do with the whole thing, but later the family is suspected.
In the summer of 1994 in Gothenburg, a young girl is found dead in one of the city's cemeteries. The questions are many: how did she get there? Did anyone accompany her? Why did the killer scatter her belongings along the escape route?
After being missing for a week, 24-year-old Anneli's dead body is found in a clearing outside Gävle. She has been stabbed to death. And twenty-three years later, Leif GW Persson takes on the case but encounters a series of difficulties.
