The arrested 37-year-old man was 21 years old in 2004 when the murders of eight-year-old boy Mohammed Ammouri and language teacher Anna-Lena Svensson occurred in early October morning in central Linköping. After 16 years, the double murder has now got a solution, when the man was arrested on Tuesday morning and then admitted the murder.
Behind the breakthrough in the case is a new method of finding perpetrators, through genealogy.
- You can trace a perpetrator who you have no idea who it is. It's a method that comes from the United States, and this was the first time this genealogy DNA method was used in Sweden, says Peter Sjölund.