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Status:
Sentenced to closed psychiatric threatment at Salberga prison in
March 1964. Died on February 9, 2002
John Ingvar Lövgren (22 October 1930 - 9
February 2002) was a Swedish serial killer and rapist who confessed
to four murders committed between 1958 and 1963 in the Stockholm
region.
Lövgren was convicted and sentenced to closed psychiatric
threatment at Salberga prison. He went under the name Flickmördaren
(the girl killer) because his last two murders were two young girls. He was at the time of this death in 2002 no longer in threatment because of bad health from cancer. He was buried at Sala
cemetery.
The novel Mannen på balkongen released by Sjöwall/Wahlöö
in 1967 was based on John Ingvar Lövgren and his crimes.
Victims
Agneta Nyholm, 26. - murdered on the night of 27
June 1957 at her home in Fruängen. (Lövgren was never convicted of her
murder and her case has since been closed and prescribated. Police
however considers it solved and Lövgren as the assailant).
Greta Löfgren, 62. - raped and murdered in November 1962 in her home
at Kungsholmen.
Berit Glesing, 6. - raped and murdered on 6 August 1963 in Vita Bergen
at Södermalm.
Ann-Kristin Svensson, 4. - raped and murdered on 2 September 1963 in Aspudden.
