On Saturday, March 1, 1986, I was seven months old. Mom and grandmother took the pram to the murder scene on Sveavägen where they realized that they had woken up to a less naive Sweden.
" You didn't know how to understand what happened, " Mom later told me.
I do not remember the murder, or the trips to the center of Sollentuna when we took detours to avoid Christer Pettersson (" he was like a trembling detonation "). On the other hand, I know that the police's failure since that icy February night has been an open wound for more than 30 years.
Until now. Perhaps.
A separate universeSince we were told that the murder may be about to be solved, I have begun to understand all the private spies who have spent years of their lives trying to crack the riddle.
To read for the first time about all the strange and mysterious circumstances surrounding the murder is like discovering the magic wardrobe in Narnia or platform 9¾ to the Hogwarts Express.
For those who love true crime marathon on Netfix, I can instead recommend the Investigation Commission on the murder. Hair-raising.
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The Kurdish track, the police track or the South Africa track? SVT News gives you a quick look at the last 30 years of hunting for Olof Palme's killer - one of the world's most expensive murder investigations. Photo: TTHe was in front of their noses all the timeThere is another reason to worry that the murder may finally be cleared up.
If the so-called Skandia man is identified as Olof Palme's pioneer, it is a legal scandal in par with several of the more - or less - imaginative conspiracy theories that flourished over the years (heard that Olof Palme was never murdered?).
The Scandinavian was in front of the investigators' nose all the time. But is he really a killer or just "an elephant in a porcelain shop" and a mythomaniac as former Detective leader Hans Holmér put it?
The police raged until his deathSoon we might get the answer - although I feel pretty confident that not everyone will accept the prosecutor's statement. The many Swedes, preferably men, who have spent thousands of hours solving the mystery have simply invested too much of their time.
Or maybe Prosecutor Krister Petersson presents a completely different solution. The only thing that so far seems to have been certain about Olof Palme's murder is that you cannot be sure of anything.