Sweden's 'Hannibal Lecter' cleared of all charges

[rpannier]

It is a story worthy of Sweden's finest crime writers. A serial killer who cuts up and eats more than 30 people in the country's worst murder spree, earning a reputation as the country's very own Hannibal Lecter.

Under interrogation by police investigators a suspect confesses to the crimes, saying he maimed and raped his victims and ate their remains. The youngest victims was a nine-year-old girl whose body was never found.

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But two decades later it emerged that the man, Sture Bergwall, was not a murderer after all. Rather he made up his confessions after being drugged by incompetent investigators only too eager to close their cases.

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"It means that you can get away with anything because nobody will be held responsible, and that's terrible," Küttim said, calling for an independent review to scrutinise the psychiatric ward where Bergwall was held, the police, and the prosecutors involved in the murder investigations.

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/sweden-europe-news

[Enthusiast]

1. Incredible.

Where is the real killer?

[No Elephants]

2. Werird thought.

If we see a home full of stuffed lions, elephants, antelope, etc., (as I happened to, only hours ago on Bravo's Property Envy) we are repulsed by people who kill animals, simply to kill them, rather than killing them to eat them or to allow others to eat them.

Yet, we have more revulsion for someone who kills humans and eats them than we do for someone who kills human simply to kill them.


I guess that is the outcome of the dominion theory?
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[Enthusiast]

3. That is a weird thought.

You stepped clear outside the box. Interesting thought.

[No Elephants]

4. Weird? Who said anything about weird? I said it was a werird thought.

Where did you get "weird" from? Sheesh! I'm so insulted!

Kidding!

Stepping clear outside the box could be a sign of original or creative thinking.

Or insanity.

I'm at the point where I don't really care where I fit.

But, here's a scenario.

Deer carcass.

"Why did you kill that deer?"


"Because I was hungry. That's why."

You probably don't want to have that conversation about a person.