Victims: Agneta Nyholm, Berit Glesing, 6. Ann-Kristin Svensson, 4. He had two siblings, Joel, an older brother who was a deafmute, and a younger brother named Rickard. Histories are told of the young Nordlund as an odd child who never laughed. In the family moved to Falun where Nordlund went to school, but being of an impatient nature he never finished school.
Instead he took to the road, at first with a classmate who was an orphan, in Later that year, he was spotted by a friend of his parents in Hedemora, and returned to home. In he was on the run again, and as a person of both size and strength he had the ability to work, passing as an adult.
Still he gave in to temptation and forged a bill, which got him fired from the lumber mill. Nordlund had gotten used to thieving during his time on the road and in he was arrested and sentenced to four months in prison for cattle rustling by a court in Ljusdal. Later the same year he received his first long term prison sentence, this time for stealing, when he was sentenced to three years in prison.
Due to unruly behaviour in prison and other things he was to serve four years and according to letters written by himself in , it was here his plan for the future took its final and drastic shape. As an ex-convict he had difficulties getting a job, so soon he returned to his old life, but this time with a disastrous plan of one final big hit that would solve his problems. The mass murder on the steam boat ferry Prins Carl On the night of 16th and 17 May Nordlund committed the act that would make him the bogeyman of several years to come, and reserve a place for him in the criminal history of Sweden.
He boarded the ferry in Arboga and bought a ticket for Stockholm on the evening with an evil plan. The contents of his luggage were two revolvers, several knives and padlocks, with which he had planned to lock the door to the engine room.
His plan was to rob and kill as many people as possible on the ship and steal the ship's register. To avoid early detection he also planned to torch the ship. Still he managed to commit one of the worst murder sprees in known Swedish history by killing four and wounding nine of whom 8 survived and a partly trashed ship. His plan also failed in the aspect that he did not manage to steal the ship's register, leaving his booty at kronor.
He managed to escape from the ship because no one thought that one single man could be strong enough to put one of the life boats in the sea and row away. The next day he was arrested by three police officers at the train station in Skogstorp near Eskilstuna, where he had bought some new clothes earlier and avoided detection. When he was arrested he is supposed to have shouted things like; "This was my revenge on humanity" and "Be glad that you arrested me here — if I had gotten on the train several more would have been killed".
After the arrest He was put in a holding cell in Eskilstuna, in which the guards were barely able to keep an angry mob from killing him. The 18th of May he wrote a letter to his family, explaining what he had done and that he was the one responsible for the newspaper headlines.
The letter was published by the newspapers both Gefle Dagblad and Aftonbladet. In the letter he wrote that he had to explain himself to someone and that he realised that he would receive only one more sentence, capital punishment. He also told them not to grieve and that he welcomed the end since he never felt that he was a part of the society at all. In court he never tried to act in a manner which would result in a lighter sentence; he never pleaded insanity, he showed no remorse saying only that he regretted not having killed everyone on the ferry.
He was sentenced to death and to forever lose all privileges as a citizen for five murders, eight attempted murders and theft. He attempted to escape once, because he had nothing to lose but to await execution. The act that he committed resulted in a media hysteria comparable to the ones we see today, partly because the ruthlessness of the crimes. Several papers competed with each other on several numbers of victims. In some papers the number of victims was exaggerated, claiming a much larger death toll.
Several skillingtryck were made about the events on Prins Carl with songs detailing the horrors of the night of May The execution Nordlund had the possibility of writing a letter to the king, Oscar II, to plead for mercy, which he chose not to do. Strangely enough, he took the time to write a letter to the Supreme Court complaining about the fact that he had been wrongfully sentenced for robbery of people that he did not rob. The Supreme Court wrote in their answer of November 13 that this was irrelevant and that the sentence passed by the court was correct.
While awaiting his execution he met his mother several times the last time five days before his execution. In his final letter to his parents he actually asked the lord for redemption and told his parents good bye. Nordlund's execution was swift, striking the head off in a single blow. The aftermath The year was one of the darkest for the people who wanted to abolish capital punishment in Sweden with three executions in the same year, all by decapitation between and there were 11 executions in total.
The people who argued that one inherited the role as a criminal and the people who wanted to keep the death penalty used Nordlund as an example of why this penalty was necessary. Abolitionists such as Hjalmar Branting only argued that it was unfortunate that Nordlund had been released from prison. Some have claimed that the way Nordlund acted after being caught is a proof of insanity, and that his lack of empathy for his victims also proves this.
It has been said that had he not committed the act in a time when several gruesome murders were committed he would probably have received a lighter sentence or been sent to an insanity asylum. The claims of insanity and the fact that two of the three persons executed in were claimed to have been insane, probably had an effect on the justice system with a year stretch of reprieves until the execution of Alfred Ander by guillotine, the last ever in Sweden.
Mattias Flink. His mother was a housewife and his father and grandfather worked as gunsmiths with their own shop. At the age of seven Flink joined the Scout Movement. His parents divorced when he was nine years old and the divorce is described as having been calm and sensible. Flink chose to stay with his father in the family house while his mother moved to an apartment just a couple of hundred meters from the house. According to psychological evaluations his mother's departure left deep scars within Flink.
It is said that Flink developed some kind of alienation towards women. Flink attended high school with a focus on Electric Mechanical studies.
After his graduation Flink enlisted as a conscript with Dalarna Regiment. He committed himself to become an officer of the Swedish Army and was employed at Dalarna Regiment in Mental health During the spring of Flink had severe problems with his mental health, resulting in aggression, severe jealousy, sleeping disorders and paranoia.
This led to a total mental breakdown. He was reported as having been "thrown out of a restaurant for bothering women". Killing spree On June 11, , Second Lieutenant Mattias Flink consumed a large amount of alcohol, then he went home to change his clothes.
Dressed in his field uniform he walked to his regiment. He equipped himself with his Ak 5 assault rifle and rounds of ammunition, 5. Flink then set out for a park in Downtown Falun where he shot 6 members of the Women's Auxiliary Services.
The women were shot at random. Shortly thereafter, he shot two men, one cyclist and one security officer, at a nearby road crossing. Six of the victims died immediately, while one woman died in the hospital. One victim survived the attack. He remained there for some time before he made his way down to walk home along an abandoned railway.
It was at this time that two policemen discovered him. Flink fired two rounds at the policemen who then returned fire. Flink was hit in the hip and collapsed. At Flink was apprehended and brought to Falun hospital. Trial In the district court the defense never questioned the prosecutor's description of the crime. The question for the defense was whether or not Flink was mentally ill at the time of the shooting. According to experts, Flink was in a self-inflicted temporary psychotic condition, triggered by alcohol, on the evening of the crime.
If Flink was found to be mentally ill he would not be able to be sentenced to prison. The final verdict came in the Swedish Supreme Court; Mattias Flink was sentenced to life imprisonment. This precedent verdict made it possible for the courts in Sweden to sentence people to prison for crimes stemming from and committed during an alcohol-induced psychosis. When the prisoners of Beateberg learned of Flink's move they arranged a meeting to show their disgust towards his actions of killing innocent women.
Flink has been allotted protected identity by Swedish Authorities. He has refused to give any interviews. During his years in prison he has been described as a calm and well-behaved prisoner.
On June 9, the court ruled that Flink must go through a psychiatric examination to determine whether he is likely to be dangerous to others before a decision on parole can be made. The victims' families strongly opposed the fact that Flink might be released. Mattias Flink was given several monitored short-term leaves from prison, and in May he was granted unmonitored leaves since he behaved well during his other leaves.
Relatives and families of the victims strongly opposed these leaves and expressed worries about the same thing happening again. Conversion of life sentence to a set time sentence In January, , Flink requested that his life sentence be limited to 24 years imprisonment. His punishment was set to 32 years imprisonment, which would have made him eligible for parole sometime in After yet another appeal, Flink's punishment was adjusted to 30 years by the Supreme Court making his parole date to the summer of , after serving 20 years in prison.
On 11 June , Flink was released from jail on the 20th anniversary of his shooting spree. The couple had accrued large debts and needed a way to pay their bills. As a way to raise cash, Nilsson cared for infants in return for money from mothers who were not married and needed help. Nilsson kept her home in a good, clean condition, which made mothers more willing to leave their unwanted children in her care. However, the small sums of money she received was far from what she needed to support all the children she had agreed to take care of.
Murders Nilsson murdered the children she took care of shortly after their mothers left them in her care. This was possible because the authorities rarely knew of these babies' existence. Furthermore, the mothers almost never wanted to come back to learn how their children were doing. One method Nilsson used for murdering the children was to put them into a washtub and then place heavy objects—such as a washboard and coal scuttle—on top of them.
She then left the room and returned hours later when the children were dead. The next step in her procedure was to burn their bodies. On occasions when she did not burn them, she dug graves and buried them.
Nilsson was different from other baby-farmer child killers of that time, in that she actively killed the children. Most others simply left the children with insufficient food and in unhealthy living conditions, which led to their death.
Discovery, trial, and sentence Nilsson's crimes were discovered when a woman named Blenda Henricsson wanted to contact her child. When Nilsson refused contact, Henricsson asked the police to investigate.
The police soon found ample incriminating evidence of the murders. Nilsson was sentenced to death by guillotine. Before the punishment could be carried out, she committed suicide by hanging on 10 August The same day, and without Nilsson's knowledge, the court had commuted her death sentence to life imprisonment. She was the last death penalty prisoner in Swedish history not to be pardoned. She died before the pardon could be officially carried out. Birth name: Sture Bergwall A. He adopted his mother's maiden name, Quick, around After a history of delinquency molestations of boys and stabbing a man , Quick was sentenced in for armed robbery.
Confessions and convictions of murder After the robbery conviction, Quick was confined to care in an institution for the criminally insane.
During therapy, he confessed to more than thirty murders committed in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland between and The therapy sessions were followed by police interviews. This crime was outside the then year statute of limitations in Sweden, but with the information given by Quick, the case was considered closed. With no eyewitnesses or technical forensic evidence to connect him to the crimes, Quick was convicted solely on the basis of his own confessions while undergoing recovered-memory therapy on benzodiazepines followed by police interrogations.
Details in the confessions were wildly wrong and Quick relied on hints and body language from his interrogators to guess the answers expected of him. Quick requested back copies including earlier reports of the story from Norwegian journalists and could include details hitherto unknown to the Swedish police that they concluded only the perpetrator knew.
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It was a time when moral standards were rigid and high, but also neglectful to some degree. A time when imperial conquest was considered to be just fine, and we all know imperial conquests were often bloody.
Poverty and wealth inequality was at a level that we can barely imagine with our modern perspective. Education was only for the rich. All these factors contributed to an extremely harsh society for those without power or high status. And the harsh conditions may have contributed to the high crime rates in the 19 th century.
So there were quite a few Victorian serial killers, some of which never made the news. In this article we look at 10 creepy examples of Victorian serial killers. Amelia Dyer might be the most prolific serial killer in British history.
Most agree that she killed over one hundred people, with many credible historians believing she may have killed over four hundred. Despite this, only 6 of her victims have been absolutely confirmed. She was a respected nurse who secretly murdered children who she was responsible for looking after. She did this for about 20 years before people caught on to her crimes. Amelia Dyer was arrested in April of and she was hanged to death two months later.
Edward H. Rulloff killed at least 3 people, two of which being his own wife and daughter. He was also accused of several other murders but no more were ever proven.
Born in , it was only in when he was finally arrested. That is… until he was finally put to death for his crimes. One of the most creepy parts of his story is that his brain was removed after he died.
The brain is still preserved today at an American university and is considered to be the second-largest brain ever to be recorded. Edward William Pritchard was a 19 th century doctor who poisoned his wife and her mother. The bodies of his victims were buried without much suspicion. However, an anonymous letter was sent to the local police claiming that they were murdered. The victims bodies were dug up and poison was found in their system. It soon became obvious that Pritchard was behind it and he was put on trial.
After a five day trial, he was sentenced to death by hanging. He was also accused of killing a maid who worked at his house.
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