Expectations were high. In recent days, several data have been circulated, sometimes supported by Petersson himself, that one must have secured some type of technical evidence. I and many people believed that the murder weapon would be presented.

But that didn't happen.

A surprising amount of new information came out during the press conference. Actually, nothing was said about what has happened over the past two years. No new details on how that group worked on getting new data. However, we were told that they digitized their archive!

Known information

The prosecutor could not even establish that Engström had access to weapons - despite previously known information that he must have had contact with a gun collector. We also did not know why they tried to get a DNA profile on Engström through his relatives - only that it would be tested against "certain objects".

To say the least: an anticlimax.

The information provided by the Prosecutor, which links Engström to the murder scene in February 1986, was also known since before. How he stamped out of his job at Skandia just a few hundred meters from the murder sites, just before the murder. How he was dressed, with a cap, dark coat and handbag - and how it was in many ways consistent with several witnesses' description of the perpetrator.

Did not touch the subject

We were also told how Engström aimed the spotlight at himself, especially through media appearances shortly after the murder. The prosecutor did not want to speculate on the motive, but he found that it may have made the early investigation difficult. It was mildly expressed. Probably Engström made himself exhausted as a trace in that he presented his face to the entire Swedish people - among other things in a long Report feature where, just a month after the murder, he presents an entirely reconstruction of the murder night. After that moment, no evidence could be used to identify Engström as a perpetrator.

Prosecutor Krister Petersson says that if his group had had the job already in 1986, they would have done a better job than Hans Holmér's team, who snowed in on the PKK track and lost a year of the investigation.

There, I want to give him right. If one had taken the Skandia man seriously and had not dismissed him as the "elephant in the porcelain room", one would have had tremendously better conditions for tying a possible murder weapon to him, and possibly being able to bring him to trial. A footwork that cannot be done 34 years later, when memories have failed, the key witnesses have died and the murder weapon has come to rest - and in any case would not be able to commit to the murder.

It is important that others are allowed to move on

Unfortunately, this day will not end the national trauma. On the contrary. Now the preliminary investigation is closed because the prosecutor believes that Stig Engström is probably the perpetrator.

The question is who will now have access to the Palme archive. It is important that others are now allowed to pass on - and review the reviews.