Stockholm: A 37-year-old man tried Tuesday for an unsolved double homicide and took over Sweden for more than 15 years until police compared his DNA to a popular genealogy website.
Daniel Nyqvist, who confessed to the crime shortly after his arrest last June, charged with the 2004 murder of a 56-year-old woman and an eight-year-old boy.
Unrelated to others, the two were randomly stabbed one morning in the quiet town of Link-ping in southern Sweden.
The crime surprised the country, as investigators were unable to locate the culprit or reason despite the discovery of the suspect’s DNA at the scene, the murder weapon, a bloodied cap, and a young man’s witness descriptions. boy with blond hair.
Police even asked the FBI for help, but it was in vain. Over the years, the case has become the biggest moment in Swedish history, following the 1986 murder of Prime Minister Olof Palme.
Nevertheless, the case was resolved when the new January 2019 law allowed police to search for DNA matches of suspects on advertising genealogy websites, which are popular among Swedes looking for long-lost relatives.
Researchers used the GEDmatch and Family Tree databases.
“We won a correspondence almost immediately. And several months later, the suspect was arrested. His DNA was taken and corresponds to 100%,” police said the day after his arrest.
Nyqvist, whose brother also soon a suspect founded on DNA correspondence, later confessed to the double murder.
At the time of the killings, Nyqvist admitted during police interrogations that he had an obsessive mind about the murder and chose his victims at random, stabbing the child first and then the woman, who had witnessed the boy’s assault.
Medical experts concluded that Nyqvist was suffering from a serious psychiatric disorder and was suffering at the time of the crime. If convicted, he will be sentenced to psychiatric care.
His lawyer, Johan Ritzer, told the court Tuesday that his consumer admitted the acts, downplayed the premeditated murder rate, and insisted that he deserved to be tried for manslaughter.
“Daniel was suffering from a serious psychiatric disorder at the time of the murder. This provoked an obsessive mind about killing two other people and acted on one’s mind. He had limited skill in his actions,” Ritzer told the court, the media reported. .
Nyqvist, who planned to speak Wednesday, told police investigators that he hoped to be arrested or die without delay after the murders.
“I don’t forget I didn’t brush my teeth because I was going to die or get stuck that day. But I had to. He did it more commonly automatically,” he said when questioning the police.
Nyqvist, an unemployed loner and video game fan, rarely ventured out of his parents’ house, where he lived at the time of the murders.
Investigators say he has continued to live a remote life near Linkoping since the murders.
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