In the early 1990s, after the Court of Appeal released Christer Pettersson, psychiatrist Ulf Åsgård and Crime Commissioner Jan Olsson were commissioned to develop an offender profile to facilitate the search for Olof Palme's murderer. The duo had previously collaborated in the case with the Laser Man.
In retrospect, work on the perpetrator profile, which took place in consultation with the US FBI, has been criticized both because it got underway and because the end result of some has been interpreted as being tailor made for Christer Pettersson.
However, when the Commission of Inquiry investigated the investigation into the murder of Olof Palme, the perpetrator profile got some correction, not least by the well-known profiler Robert Ressler, who also did his own analysis where the results were sometimes consistent.
Now it turns out that the experts met many right, and that the deed was a "chaotic" crime that was not planned in advance (unlike a so-called "organized" crime).
Infiltrated the investigation
The so-called Skandia man is now identified as Olof Palme's killer. And in some cases it would turn out that the perpetrator profile was frighteningly striking.
Among the points that agree are that Engström was used to firearms, had vision errors, was older than 30 years - and infiltrated the investigation to get more information and at the same time mislead. He should also have a long-term attitude to the authorities - and Stig Engström himself has described himself as a rights holder.
See more points that argued - and did not agree - between stig Engström and the perpetrator profile in the fact box below the article.
Do not want to comment
SVT News was in contact with Ulf Åsgård and asked him to comment on the perpetrator profile before Krister Petersson pointed out the Skandia man. Then he did not want to speak.