• On Tuesday morning, 15 May 2018,

    a 45-year-old woman reported missing in Örebro.

    Relatives make the report and the last contact with the woman must have been on the evening of 14 May.

    The overall picture makes the police suspect kidnapping and a preliminary investigation into kidnapping begins.


  • On the same day

    as the report is received, a person is arrested, reasonably suspected of kidnapping.

    The person is released the same day.


  • On Friday 18 May

    , the police seize a car for a technical investigation.

    According to information to SVT, the car must belong to the person who has previously been arrested.


  • On Saturday morning,

    May 19, the police's search for the woman continues and an area is cordoned off after an object of interest is found.


  • On Saturday afternoon

    , the police confirm that a dead woman was found by private individuals in another area, but can not confirm that it is the missing 45-year-old.

    The body is found only 150 meters from the missing woman's home, behind a noise barrier in a forest grove.


  • On Sunday, the

    police's technical investigation of the site

    continues

    .

    Later in the day, the preliminary investigation shifts from being classified as kidnapping to suspected murder.


  • One week after

    the 45-year-old was reported missing, on Tuesday 22 May, the police confirm that the body found is the missing woman.

    The cause of death is still unclear.


  • Another week

    later, on the morning of Tuesday, May 29, a person is brought in for questioning on reasonable suspicion of murder.

    After the interrogation, prosecutor Åsa Hiding decides to arrest the person.

    In other respects, prosecutors and police are silent about the suspect and the investigation.


  • On Wednesday, May 30,

    prosecutor Åsa Hiding confirmed via the police that the person arrested is a man in his 40s.

    The man is the same as previously arrested during the investigation and he has in another investigation been suspected of assaulting the dead woman.


  • On Thursday 31 May

    , defense lawyer Ingvar Backman tells SVT that his client, the arrested man in his 40s, will be requested to be detained for probable cause on Friday.


  • On Friday, June 1, the

    man in his 40s is arrested on suspicion of the murder of the 45-year-old woman in Örebro.

    The man was arrested on reasonable suspicion of the murder, which is the lower degree of suspicion.


  • On Friday, June 8,

    the previously detained man will be released because the court does not think the evidence is sufficient.

    The man is still a suspect.


  • On Tuesday, June 19,

    SVT reveals that Peter Springare, who was the head of the preliminary investigation in the case, is fired from the investigation.

    This after internal criticism of how the case was handled.

    Mikael Nykvist may instead lead the investigation.


  • On Friday, September 7,

    the police will go out with a search for three women who may have important information for the investigation.


  • On Thursday, October 11,

    the police are conducting new investigations in the area where the woman was found murdered.


  • On Monday, March 11, 2019

    , the police chief who has been reassigned in connection with the murder investigation demands damages.


  • Tuesday 14 May 2019

    , it has been a year since the woman disappeared.

    Prosecutor Åsa Hiding speaks for SVT Örebro and says that "the investigation is extremely complex".


  • On Tuesday, August 27

    , the man who had previously been suspected of the murder was arrested again.


  • On Wednesday, August 28

    , another person is arrested on suspicion of murder.

    The person is arrested and is reasonably suspected, the lower the degree of suspicion.


  • On Friday, August 30, the

    man is requested to be detained and during the arrest hearing in the afternoon, the district court decides that the man should be arrested, on probable cause on suspicion of murder.

    He denies any wrongdoing.


  • On Saturday, August 31,

    the other person is also requested to be detained.

    It is a woman who is close to the already detained man.

    She too is arrested, reasonably suspected of murder and against her denial.


  • On Friday, September 6,

    the detained woman will be released from custody.

    However, she is still suspected of murder.


  • On Thursday, September 26, the

    suspect is detained.

    According to the prosecutor, the suspicions against him have been strengthened, but charges are not yet pending.


  • On Tuesday, December 17

    , prosecutor Åsa Hiding announces that the former woman suspected of murder is no longer suspected of murder.


  • On Thursday 13 December

    , it is clear that prosecution will be brought on Friday 14 February.


  • On Wednesday, February 26, 2020

    , almost two years after the woman was first reported missing, the trial against the man who is charged with the murder of the 45-year-old will begin.


  • On Thursday, March 5, the

    trial will be moved to the residential area where both the suspected man lives and where the murdered woman lived.


  • On Tuesday, April 7, 2020

    , the prosecution will hold its final plea in the trial and demand that the man be sentenced to life imprisonment.


  • Wednesday, April 8,

    is the last day of the trial.

    The man's defenders say, among other things, that their view is that the evidence is not enough for a conviction.


  • On Wednesday, April 15,

    Örebro District Court decides to revoke the detention decision and the man is released.


  • On Wednesday, May 6, 2020

    , the district court

    will

    announce its verdict.

    The man who has been charged with murder is acquitted.


  • On 18 May 2020

    , prosecutor Åsa Hiding

    will

    appeal the district court's acquittal to the Court of Appeal.

    "An easy decision to appeal," she says.


  • On Thursday, July 9,

    the prosecution will submit new evidence in the case, but at the same time announce that the trial will be delayed.


  • On Wednesday, April 7, 2021

    , the 18-day Court of Appeal

    hearing

    will start in Örebro District Court.


  • The

    appeal court hearing will end

    on Wednesday 5 May

    .

    The prosecution side believes that the gaps in the course of events that the district court pointed out have now been filled, while the defense continues to believe that there is a lack of evidence.

    The accused man continues to deny the crime.


  • On Friday 28 May

    , the accused 47-year-old man was sentenced to 18 years in prison for the murder of the woman in Hjärsta.

    On the same day, the 47-year-old is found dead in the countryside in Örebro municipality.

    A man is arrested, and arrested, reasonably suspected of murder.

    However, the man is later released, but the suspicions remain.


  • On Monday, May 31, the

    prosecutors commented on the proceedings for the first time and explained why they did not request the man be detained when the Court of Appeal hearing ended.


  • On Thursday, June 3,

    the prosecutor's office announces that they are closing the preliminary investigation into the murder of the convicted 47-year-old.