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Ulf Olsson
(1951 - ), also known as Helénmannen ("the Helén man")
in Sweden, was convicted for the murders of 10-year old
Helén Nilsson and 26-year old Jannica Ekblad in 1989.
Found after a DNA-test in 2004 (a
test series including 28 other men), Olsson was
convicted to psychiatric care in 2005. Although he was
first brought to the attention of the police during a
private dinner in 2002, he had been in contact with two
different police officers through anonymous letters and
phone calls since only a couple of months after the
murders.
The investigation is the second-largest
in Swedish history, only surpassed by the investigation
of the 1986 assassination of Swedish prime minister Olof
Palme.
The
murders
Helén
Nilsson
Helén Nilsson was abducted on the
night of March 20, 1989 and her body was found six days
later. She had been alive for a couple of days after the
abduction and had been raped. A number of leads were
followed over the years but Olsson was not of any
interest to the police until in 2002, when a police
investigator involved with a recent re-opening of the
case was informed of a man (Olsson) that had been
suspected by the locals around the time of the murder. A
tips was filed for him and in 2004 he was one of 29 men
that were asked for a voluntary DNA sample. The test
result indicated Olsson as the murderer with an error
probability of one in 43 millions.
Jannica
Ekblad
Jannica Ekblad was a prostitute in
Malmö. She was found dead on August 4, 1989, and since
Olsson, who has been convicted of killing her, claims he
has never met her, the known details about her last
hours in life are scarce. She did talk to a female
prostitute friend through her house phone trying to have
her follow Jannica and a man to a location outside of
Malmö, but the friend was unable to. No names were used,
but it is believed that the man was Olsson.
Jannica also visited a male friend of
hers, who would occasionally provide her with heroin.
Jannica made a short visit and appeared worried. She was
seen leaving together with a man and no later
observations were made of her. In 2004, large amounts of
Jannica's blood were found in the summer cabin that
belonged to Olsson at the time of the murder and
together with his sperm being found in her vagina and
other evidence, this enabled the conviction of him.
Connection between the murders
The police technician responsible for
the two murders was in an early stage convinced that the
same killer was responsible for the two murders.
Although there were clear differences in the two victims
(a young girl and a prostitute), other parameters such
as the type of location in which the bodies were
discovered, the combination of strangulation and massive
force against their heads as well as the presence of
dog's hair on both bodies, made the investigators
suspect there was a connection. Before the proofs
against Olsson had been collected in 2004, however,
there was no established connection between the murders.
Death
At 5:00 am CET on 10 January 2010,
Ulf Olsson published a post on his blog where he stated
"the best thing for me is simply to die, rather than to
sit here as a living dead" (Swedish: det bästa för
mig är helt enkelt att bara få dö, än att sitta här som
en levande död).
At approximately 6:15 am CET the same
morning, Ulf Olsson was found lifeless by staff of the
psychiatric clinic where he was situated. Officials of
the psychiatric clinic confirmed that he had committed
suicide.
Wikipedia.org
The Helén murder (Swedish
Helénmordet), is a sadistic murder on a 10-year old
girl named Helén Nilsson in Hörby, Sweden in
March 1989. The murderer, Ulf Olsson, the so-called
Helén man (Helénmannen) was convicted in April 2005
having been found after a DNA test in 2004.
Helén was abducted on the evening of
March 20, 1989. She had decided to meet with two friends
outside a grocery store, but they never met.
Her body was found six days later in
the woods about 20 kilometres outside Hörby. It turned
out that the girl had been alive for a couple of days
after the abduction. The murder remained unsolved for
the following years and attracted media attention every
now and then.
The murderer was first brought to the
attention of the police on a private dinner. A police
officer mentioned that she was involved with the
investigation of the Helén murder and this prompted a
remark from one of the guests about a former colleague
of hers. Supposedly, there had been a lot of talking
going on about this man at the time of the Helén murder.
The police who received the tips filed it although it
was not enough for an investigation. As a result however,
he would later be included in the group of 29 men who
were asked to leave DNA-samples.
In December, 2004, the murderer was
declared guilty and in April the following year he was
sentenced to life, even though he had been found
mentally ill. The verdict was appealed and the second
authority determined the mental condition to be severe
enough to warrant psychiatric care.
Details of the abduction
Not everything is known about the
details of her abduction, but some events were
determined by the police investigation.
Helén had decided to meet two friends
of her outside a grocery store at 19.00, but failing to
find them there she had made a short walk around the
block. She met a couple of friends of her sister, who
informed her about two girls waiting outside the store.
Upon looking in that direction, Helén and the sister's
friends could see the girls leaving the parking lot, and
Helén ran after them. This is the last known observation
of Helén Nilsson. Although the police made major efforts
to determine where she had been abducted it could never
be determined whether it occurred outside the store or
on her way home, if she had decided to return home after
her friends had left her.
Shortly after 20.00, the time when
Helén should have returned home, the family was getting
worried that she was not home, since Helén's friends had
been there to ask for her. A search started and more and
more people became involved in looking for the girl. At
22.10, the police was informed and over the following
days, the disappearance attracted a lot of media
attention.Five independent witnesses have seen a young
man, 20-25 years old, at the same place and time as
Helén disappeared. One of them saw him force a little
girl into his car. The witness has confirmed that the
man did not look like the judged man.
Arrest
A number of arrests were made over
the years. At March 22, only two days after the
abduction and while the search was still on, a man
living in the same area as Helén was interrogated by the
police and had his home searched. He could not present
an alibi and he was never informed of being suspected of
the crime.
In 2002, the case was reopened with
the intention of reviewing all the interrogation
transcripts, letters and other available data. One
revisited lead consisted of a man who was reported to
have attempted a couple of rapes during the 1980's and
who lived in the area. He had been with his cousin
during the day of Helén's disappearing and the two men
presented very different views on what they had been
doing on that day. During the new investigations, a
number of girls who had lived in the area and been 10
years old some time during the eighties were questioned
and six of them mentioned being harassed or assaulted by
the man.
It could be established in 1989 that
the two men had been at the grocery store at the same
time that Helén was in the area and they had been
spotted in their car, signalling with the full beam and
in other aspects behaving "very strange".
Several other observations of the two
cousins prompted the investigators to detain the two men
in 2002. Eventually, the prosecutor determined that
there was no reason to keep them in custody and they
were let go.
Use of new technology
A small amount of sperm was found on
Helén's body and was sent to the forensic laboratory in
Linköping. In 1989, however, the techniques used were
not advanced enough to be able to get any information
out of such small amounts but the sample was frozen. In
2002, during the aforementioned reopening of the case,
the sample was sent to Forensic Science Service in
Birmingham, UK and in August 2003, the DNA profile was
received.
In April 2004, a group of 29 men that
had appeared in the investigation was selected. The
purpose was to conduct interrogations and to ask the men
to voluntarily provide DNA samples. There were no
priority differences within the group apart from the
strategy of starting with those living closest. It had
been rumoured over the years that Swedish serial killer
Thomas Quick was involved in the murder and although the
police had no interest in him, he was allowed to leave a
sample by his own initiative in order to rule him out.
A match was reported on June 23, 2004
and an arrest was made the same evening.
Wikipedia.org
Ulf Olsson
- AKA "The Man With The Dog"
Convicted in 2004 for two accounts of murder in the first degree.
Olsson's first victim was 10-year old Helén Nilsson
from the small southern community of Hörby. Helén disappeared from
outside a convenience store, the 20th of March 1989. Six days later
her body was found a couple of miles from the place of abduction, in
Tollarp.
The forensic evidence showed that she'd been held captive
for several days, being severally beaten and raped multiple times.
Finally she'd been killed, put in a garbage bag and dumped in the
woods.
Later the same year, the 2nd of August 1989, the
26-year old prostitute Jannica Ekblad disappears. She'd come home to
her grandmother's house in Malmö to fix herself up for a date with a
customer. This is the last time Jannica is seen alive. The next day
police found her naked body close to a rest stop outside of Vedema.
Her death is soon thereafter linked to the death of Helén Nilsson.
Even though the major police effort the killer of
Helén and Jannica eludes capture. Forensics hadn't revealed anything
helpful other than a sample of badly degraded DNA, which at the time
was impossible to trace.
Two years after the murders, the 6th of
April 1991, detective Alf Andersson receives a telephone call traced
to a pay phone in Malmö. The information given by the caller leads
police to believe that this is the killer calling, since some of the
details from the classified autopsy reports are told. The caller
says: "I'm so lonely. That's why I did it. It just happened to be
Helén. She was just there. And Jannica, I got so angry that I killed
her. I strangled them and beat them to death." The caller promises
the detective to call again the next day, which he never does.
More than 13 years later, the 1st of June 2004,
detective Alf Andersson receives a CD-ROM with a letter of
confession. It reads: "Hadn't I been bullied while in Hörby
Elementary School this would never had happened. I killed Heléne &
Jannica. I did it alone." The last statement that the killer acted
alone was a direct response to the capture of two suspects the year
before.
In 2003 two pedophiles with prior convictions for sexual
advances towards underage girls had been arrested and interrogated
for several weeks. When they later were cleared of suspicion it
didn't take many months before the killer once again contacted the
police.
The police continued their efforts, now working from
a list of 29 suspects who were rounded up and had DNA-samples taken.
The forensic sciences had evolved considerably since the first
investigation so the samples could now be matched to the one taken
from the original crime scene.
The killer, Ulf Olsson, was on
this list as number 28. He'd been put on the list as a lucky fluke.
An investigator who had worked on the case back in 1989 was on a
dinner party when people got to talk about the murder. One of guests
said that she'd been distraught with the murder of Helén and that
she'd always suspected one of her former colleagues, Ulf Olsson, for
the murder.
The investigator took the tip seriously and Olsson was
placed on the list of possible suspects. The results of Olsson's
DNA-sample came back from the forensic lab the 23rd of June 2004.
The same evening Olsson was arrested for the murders.
A dark picture started to form with Olsson's
testimony. Olsson was born in the small rural town of Höör, about 13
kilometers from Hörby where he later moved. His upbringing was
strict and filled with violence.
While his brothers managed to put
the actions of their abusive parents behind them, Ulf couldn't. He
became the local "odd-ball", often seen in the woods surrounding Hörby where he spent the most of his time, afraid of being beaten if
he came home. When Ulf and his brothers got a baby sister the abuse
lessened and he managed to pull his life together somewhat.
He
finished school with mediocre grades in all classes but art class in
which he excelled. During his school years he had a hard time
connecting with children his own age and was often found playing
cowboys & indians with the younger children.
After graduating he got
a job as an errand boy for a local business. The employment lasted
for a year but was terminated when he didn't show up for work for
several weeks. After being fired he started drifting around, taking
odd-jobs where he could find them, but soon suffered a complete
mental breakdown and was sent to an assylum.
After two months of
treatment he was deamed fit to return to society. He held jobs at a
slaughter house and a tool manufacturer for about two years until
his mental condition started to assert itself again. He wanted to
get away and joined the crew of a merchant ship. His condition only
worsened and when he returned to Sweden he tried to go back to the
assylum but was denied treatment.
During his years as a sailor he
claims he killed a man in Thailand who looked at him the wrong way
(which has yet to be confirmed or denied), that he joined and later
escaped the French Foreign Legion & made a trip in a rubber dingy
tied to a passenger ship between Sweden and Germany. These strange
claims have since the day of his capture been made every now and
then.
Sometime after his return to Sweden, Olsson married
but the marriage soon ended in divorce. Also his second marriage
ended shortly after it began. He now lived in a small cabin outside
of Höör. The cabin has later been confirmed as the killing site of
both Helén and Jannica.
The year after the murders Olsson sold the
cabin and moved to the small town of Vimmerby. There he became known
as "The Man With The Dog", since he never was seen without his
companion, a black dog. People thought he was kind of unsetteling to
be around but no one could say why they thought so. Everyone knew
who he was, but no one knew him personally.
In 1994 he was suspected
of several accounts of arson in Vimmerby but was later cleared. He
was however convicted of vandalism when he put sharp screws on the
road causing a lot of cars to blow their tires.
During his years in Vimmerby it's also been suggested that Olsson is behind the
disapperance and murder of a local 6-year old girl called Jasmina.
He has hinted this himself several times but seems to be using the
possibility of this crime as a way to get more media attention -
i.e. it's believed he won't confess to it. He further claims he has
a spotty memory of what happened to Helén and Jannica and denied any
involvement in their murders for a long time after arrest.
So why did Olsson kill his victims?
We know that he was abused as a child. Nothing has been said about
him being abused sexually, but eye witness reports from his siblings
tell that Ulf was severely beaten on a regular basis. His mother,
later claiming that she wanted to protect her son from his father,
carried out the beatings since she claims she knew when to stop.
Analysts think this was the start of his hate/dependency
relationships towards women. He also showed antisocial tendencies as
well as cruelty to what he said was his best friends, animals. He's
said himself that he has executed two of his dogs with a long-bladed
knife. Olsson was convicted to lifetime imprisonment in a hospital
for the criminally insane. He's currently serving his time in media
hiatus, refusing to speak to the press.
DNA nails killer – probable
July 2, 2004
"Last Thursday morning the telephone rang at the home
of Helén Nilsson's parents. It was the police. 'We've probably got
the man who killed your daughter.'"
So began DN's coverage of the story that has
dominated this week's front pages, the rape and murder of a 10 year
old girl in the southern Swedish town of Hörby.
Last week a 52 year old man was arrested for her
murder, after DNA profiling matched him to a tiny sample of semen
found on her body. But what makes the case so significant is that
the murder took place 15 years ago.
On 20th March 1989 Helén had arranged to meet her
friends outside a shop in Hörby. She never arrived. For six days
Sweden held its breath while police searched for her, but on 26th
March a member of the public found her naked body in a plastic bag
in a forest 25km from her home. It had been concealed by a mound of
stones.
As well as the semen, forensic investigators took
hairs, both human and from a dog, from the body and concluded that
after being imprisoned for several days Helén had been beaten to
death with a blunt instrument.
Over the following months and years a number of
suspects were questioned, including a Danish rapist, a serial killer
and a pair of cousins who were held for almost two months, but none
were prosecuted.
The semen sample remained frozen at the State
Criminal Technical Laboratory in Linköping. But last year it was
sent to an English organisation, Forensic Science Service, which had
developed a completely new method of analysis. In the autumn,
Forensic Science Service returned a full DNA profile of the man the
semen came from.
Armed with this new evidence, police began trawling
their files for suspects and came up with 29 men whose DNA they
wanted to compare with the profile. Among them was the 52 year old,
who had only been on the fringes of the investigation for the last
two years after renewed media interest had attracted some new
tip-offs.
He willingly provided a sample of his DNA and was
among the last five suspects to be tested. Last Wednesday Skåne
police were informed that his DNA matched the profile and at around
10pm he was arrested at his home in Småland.
In a press conference the following day, police chief
Henrik Malmquist was confident that they had got their man.
"According to the English company which carried out
the DNA profiling, the chance is one in fifteen million that it
wasn't the 52 year old in custody who left traces on Helén Nilsson's
body."
Nevertheless, the man denied the murder.
If at the time of his arrest little was known about
the man except his age and where he lived, the days which followed
brought a surge of revelations. And the undercurrent was that it was
more than just his DNA profile that labelled him as the killer.
At the time of the murder the man was living in the
Hörby area, but in 1990 he moved to Småland. He became known as a
loner who was often seen with his dog. He had been in trouble for
shoplifting and, according to Svenska Dagbladet, "causing a highway
obstruction", after laying nails and screws in a road.
He has a 13 year old son who lives with his mother in
another country and he has been campaiging to be allowed to see him.
Last year he had a letter about his case published in Expressen and
he is said to have sought help from former Prime Minister Carl Bildt.
Monday's tabloids declared that the man was
considered to be a suicide risk and was not being given access to
newspapers, television or radio. The stories that emerged throughout
the rest of the week perhaps justified that decision.
Tuesday focused on the man's somewhat vague links
with a man who made pornographic films but Wednesday's headlines
will be considerably more damaging. According to a new witness the
man is said to have told colleagues that the youngest girl he had
had sex with was nine years old.
On Thursday the investigation turned to the man's
summer cottage, following an anonymous tip-off to the newspaper
Skånska Dagbladet. The caller apparently provided precise details of
where blood-stained clothes and a dead dog were buried. Thursday's
Aftonbladet reported that police had found "important evidence",
including dog hair, in the cottage.
The paper also revealed that the 52 year old is now a
prime suspect for other unsolved murders of young girls in the south
of Sweden. Top of the list is the murder of 26 year old Jannica
Ekblad, who was also killed in 1989. She was found in the same type
of plastic bag and with traces of the same type of dog hair as Helén
Nilsson, and police have long suspected that the same person killed
them.
As for the Helén Nilsson case, police chief Henrik
Malmquist would not go so far as to say that it had been cleared up.
"But we have never before been so close to solving
it," he said.
1989 double murder suspect denies
everything
December 2, 2004
The man accused of killing 10 year old Helén Nilsson
and 26 year old Jannica Ekblad fifteen years ago denied the charges
in Lund district court on Thursday.
But the day's session began in chaos as a man armed
with a knife tried to force his way through the security check and
into the courtroom.
The man was a 26 year old Malmö resident, and
Expressen reported that he was tackled by police and security guards
who carried him over the street to the police station for
questioning.
Police said that the man had no connection with
either of the victims' families or to Ulf Olsson, the man accused of
the murders. The 26 year old said that it was a coincidence that he
had a knife and he had just come to watch the trial. He was released
after questioning.
Back in court, Ulf Olsson, 52, took the stand after
lunch and the chief prosecutor, Pär Andersson, began with questions
about his childhood.
"There's not much to say," replied Olsson. He said
that he had a few friends and was often alone in the forest, as he
was interested in nature. He described briefly how he had moved
around a lot, and confirmed that in 1989 he was living in the
cottage where the murders are said to have taken place.
Olsson admitted that he was often in Hörby, from
where Helén was abducted, to visit his sister. But as Aftonbladet
reported, he said he could not remember where he was on 20th March
1989, the day she disappeared.
"Did you take Helén away?" asked the prosecutor.
"No," replied Olsson. "I've never seen her."
"You have heard the experts testify about the
certainty that it is your semen which was found in her."
"I don't know about that. I have no explanation."
"You have seen the pictures of how Helén was
murdered. Who did it?"
"I don't know," said Olsson.
According to Svenska Dagbladet's Karin Thunberg, Ulf
Olsson used few words and spoke very quietly in giving his most
common answer: "I have no idea".
Olsson's responses were perhaps more significant
given what the judge said to him before the lunch break:
"If it is you who did this, I ask you to tell the
court," said Jan Alvå. "Whoever did this cannot expect to be
forgiven, nor can he demand to be understood. One can perhaps attain
a certain sympathy but it requires courage to talk about such a
thing."
"I think that you, Ulf Olsson, should think about
that over lunch," he concluded.
However, Alvå's words apparently had little effect.
When questioned about the death of Jannica Ekblad - whose blood was
found in Olsson's cottage - he denied any involvement and said that
someone else must have taken her there and killed her while he slept
in the other room.
"Who has been in your cottage and murdered Jannica
and cleaned up when you weren't there?" asked the prosecutor.
"I don't know," Olsson replied. "It's just a theory."
Olsson will continue in the witness stand on Friday.
Next week his former wife, and a woman with whom he has a child,
will testify. The trial is expected to close on 16th December.
Helén murder suspect "claimed to have killed"
December 10, 2004
"Last Thursday morning the telephone rang at the home
of Helén Nilsson's parents. It was the police. 'We've probably got
the man who killed your daughter.'"
So began DN's coverage of the story that has
dominated this week's front pages, the rape and murder of a 10 year
old girl in the southern Swedish town of Hörby.
Last week a 52 year old man was arrested for her
murder, after DNA profiling matched him to a tiny sample of semen
found on her body. But what makes the case so significant is that
the murder took place 15 years ago.
On 20th March 1989 Helén had arranged to meet her
friends outside a shop in Hörby. She never arrived. For six days
Sweden held its breath while police searched for her, but on 26th
March a member of the public found her naked body in a plastic bag
in a forest 25km from her home. It had been concealed by a mound of
stones.
As well as the semen, forensic investigators took
hairs, both human and from a dog, from the body and concluded that
after being imprisoned for several days Helén had been beaten to
death with a blunt instrument.
Over the following months and years a number of
suspects were questioned, including a Danish rapist, a serial killer
and a pair of cousins who were held for almost two months, but none
were prosecuted.
The semen sample remained frozen at the State
Criminal Technical Laboratory in Linköping. But last year it was
sent to an English organisation, Forensic Science Service, which had
developed a completely new method of analysis. In the autumn,
Forensic Science Service returned a full DNA profile of the man the
semen came from.
Armed with this new evidence, police began trawling
their files for suspects and came up with 29 men whose DNA they
wanted to compare with the profile. Among them was the 52 year old,
who had only been on the fringes of the investigation for the last
two years after renewed media interest had attracted some new
tip-offs.
He willingly provided a sample of his DNA and was
among the last five suspects to be tested. Last Wednesday Skåne
police were informed that his DNA matched the profile and at around
10pm he was arrested at his home in Småland.
In a press conference the following day, police chief
Henrik Malmquist was confident that they had got their man.
"According to the English company which carried out
the DNA profiling, the chance is one in fifteen million that it
wasn't the 52 year old in custody who left traces on Helén Nilsson's
body."
Nevertheless, the man denied the murder.
If at the time of his arrest little was known about
the man except his age and where he lived, the days which followed
brought a surge of revelations. And the undercurrent was that it was
more than just his DNA profile that labelled him as the killer.
At the time of the murder the man was living in the
Hörby area, but in 1990 he moved to Småland. He became known as a
loner who was often seen with his dog. He had been in trouble for
shoplifting and, according to Svenska Dagbladet, "causing a highway
obstruction", after laying nails and screws in a road.
He has a 13 year old son who lives with his mother in
another country and he has been campaiging to be allowed to see him.
Last year he had a letter about his case published in Expressen and
he is said to have sought help from former Prime Minister Carl
Bildt.
Monday's tabloids declared that the man was
considered to be a suicide risk and was not being given access to
newspapers, television or radio. The stories that emerged throughout
the rest of the week perhaps justified that decision.
Tuesday focused on the man's somewhat vague links
with a man who made pornographic films but Wednesday's headlines
will be considerably more damaging. According to a new witness the
man is said to have told colleagues that the youngest girl he had
had sex with was nine years old.
On Thursday the investigation turned to the man's
summer cottage, following an anonymous tip-off to the newspaper
Skånska Dagbladet. The caller apparently provided precise details of
where blood-stained clothes and a dead dog were buried. Thursday's
Aftonbladet reported that police had found "important evidence",
including dog hair, in the cottage.
The paper also revealed that the 52 year old is now a
prime suspect for other unsolved murders of young girls in the south
of Sweden. Top of the list is the murder of 26 year old Jannica
Ekblad, who was also killed in 1989. She was found in the same type
of plastic bag and with traces of the same type of dog hair as Helén
Nilsson, and police have long suspected that the same person killed
them.
As for the Helén Nilsson case, police chief Henrik
Malmquist would not go so far as to say that it had been cleared up.
"But we have never before been so close to solving
it," he said.
Double murder trial delayed for new DNA test
December 16, 2004
The trial of Ulf Olsson, suspected of killing 10 year
old Helén Nilsson and 26 year old Jannica Ekblad in 1989, took an
unexpected turn on Thursday morning as Lund District Court delayed
judgement until further DNA testing could be carried out.
The decision effectively splits the case in two. All
the evidence against Olsson for murdering Helén Nilsson has been
presented to the court, but the results of the new DNA analysis - on
semen found in Jannica Ekblad - will not be available for "at least
ten weeks".
Sydsvenskan described the "irritated discussion
between the trial judge Jan Alvå, prosecutor Pär Andersson and
Olsson's defence lawyer Sven Jernryd" which led to the decision.
While the prosecutor's view was that the trial could come to a close
on Thursday as scheduled, both the judge and Olsson's lawyer
disagreed.
They pointed out that if the evidence came in after
the trial was concluded and showed that it was not Olsson's semen,
there was a risk that the whole thing would have to be rerun.
This, the third attempt at DNA analysis on the semen,
will be carried out at a laboratory in Birmingham, England. The
first two attempts failed to produce conclusive results.
That the defence lawyer should be staking so much on
this last piece of evidence suggests that the odds are stacked
against his client.
In an interview with Dagens Nyheter, Christian Diesen,
a professor of law, said that "there is no problem for the court to
find Ulf Olsson guilty of murder".
Diesen pointed to three strong indications that
Olsson was the man behind the crimes.
"The fact that they found Ulf Olsson's semen in
Helén's body is not proof that he killed her, but it's a very strong
indicator that he did it," he said.
"Neither is Jannica's blood in his summer cottage
proof that he killed her, but it's similarly strong circumstantial
evidence."
The third factor is the numerous anonymous phone
calls and letters received by police in the years since the deaths,
in which someone is admitting to the crimes.
One of these calls was proven to have come from a
telephone card used by Olsson.
"In this context this telephone card is as strong an
indicator as the DNA evidence," said Diesen.
"The semen, the blood and the telephone card build a
net of independent circumstantial evidence which, together with the
lack of an alibi, tie Ulf Olsson to the murders."
However, in court on Thursday morning Olsson's
defence lawyer Sven Jernryd read out the profile of the suspect - or
suspects - created by police some years ago. Sydsvenskan noted that
the profile highlighted clear differences in the two murders.
"The differences are that Helén was an inexperienced
little schoolgirl while Jannica was an adult, a prostitute and a
heroin abuser. The woman's body lay completely in the open while the
girl's had been packed in plastic bags."
The trial is now expected to be concluded in March.
