Swedish 'serial killer' cleared of two (more) murders. From 8 murders now down to 1
Swedish 'serial killer' cleared of two murders
A Swedish man originally convicted of eight murders saw two more of the killings wiped from his record when the prosecutor's office announced Tuesday it was dropping charges in a retrial.
The decision leaves Sture Bergwall -- for many years known as Thomas Quick and long considered Scandinavia's worst serial killer -- with just one murder on his record.
The prosecution said on Monday it would not prosecute Bergwall, 63, for the deaths of a Dutch couple, Marinus och Janni Stegehuis, who were found stabbed to death at a highway rest stop in Appojaure, in northern Sweden, in 1984.
He was convicted of their murders in January 1996 after confessing to the crime. But he later retracted his testimony, and a retrial was ordered.
The prosecution authority said in a statement it was dropping charges in a retrial "since there is not sufficient evidence that Sture Bergwall committed the crime."
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