The day when Peter Ivarsson's family received the death notice is a day they will never forget.
Peter had then been missing for a month, when he was found in Fabbesjön.
- It was like life ended, pretty much.
It was a part of one's life that disappeared, says Erik Ivarsson, Peter's brother.
Found murdered in lake
Peter Ivarsson was 23 years old when he disappeared from his apartment on Ronnebygatan in central Karlskrona.
The last trace of him was a Facebook update that he was going out for an evening walk.
One month later, his then 27-year-old close friend admitted that he was to blame for Peter's disappearance.
He told how he got angry and strangled Peter with a life belt in the apartment, how he took his body with him and hid it in a sewer, and how he later picked it up again and lowered it into Fabbesjön.
But when the trial began, he withdrew his confession, saying he could no longer remember what had happened.
The district court chose to convict him of the murder, but in the absence of technical evidence, the Court of Appeal later chose to acquit him.
He was then convicted only of breach of the peace, after handling Peter's body.
Investigated as a cold case
The loss of Peter is still great in the family, and the fact that a murderer breaks loose does not make it easier.
- Peter was kind and kind-hearted.
But there are some who will use that, sadly enough, says Inge Petersson, Peter's father.
Today, the murder is being investigated as one of the police's cold cases, ie an unsolved murder where the police do not consider themselves able to proceed in the investigation.