The story of the serial killer who never killed anyone

When you think of a serial killer, obviously what comes to your mind is the idea of ​​a person who killed a lot of people, so the story we're going to tell now will make you reflective, after all her main character is a serial killer who, In fact, it never killed anyone.

Born as Sture Bergwall, but known as Thomas Quick, our bizarre character of the day is known, at least in the Swedish press, as Hannibal Lecter - a nickname that, let's face it, is not one of the best. Bergwall is considered Sweden's most famous serial killer, and was forced to live in a psychiatric hospital in 1991.

Convicted of eight murders, Bergwall has claimed to be responsible for more than 30 deaths: on trial, he said he had killed men, women, children and committed acts of cannibalism and rape. The truth, however, is that he never did any of that.

Family history

The son of extremely strict parents, Bergwall grew up in a hostile family environment without proper attention. Coupled with this is the fact that, for years, he was forced to hide the fact that he was homosexual so as not to get even more trouble at home.

As a teenager, Bergwall began using amphetamines. From then on, things got out of hand, and the first charges against the young man were sexual abuse and assault - he tried to rob a bank wearing Santa Claus clothes.

After being first admitted to a mental hospital, Bergwall began to devise a shocking way to finally get attention. Dedicated, he enjoyed spending his free time in a library inside the hospital, where he began researching unresolved murders.

My fault

With the help of books and newspaper clippings, Bergwall created a story worthy of a horror movie script and decided to blame himself for it all. His first move was to take responsibility for the murder of an 11-year-old boy who disappeared in the 1980s and was never found.

In his confession, the "killer" said he had raped and strangled the boy, eaten his fingers and buried his body in the middle of a forest. As the press began to cover Bergwall's grim statements, he became excited and began to blame himself for other unresolved murders. Thanks to the research he had done, his statements seemed true at first, which led him to mislead journalists, police and citizens across the country.

Convicted of eight heinous crimes, Bergwall eventually became one of the most famous people in his country. It turns out that, in the end, all the statements made by him were just lies and, like every lie, had some holes and statements that didn't match.

Investigations

By confessing to being responsible for the murder of Therese Johannessen, a little girl of only nine, Bergwall said she had blond hair when in fact she was dark. About Yenon Levi's assassination in 1988, he said he used four different weapons in statements to distinguished journalists. Experts took sperm samples from the body of one of their "victims" and, after analyzing the material, found that the DNA was not from Bergwall.

The "killer" gave details as to where he had buried his victims, and even the deepest searches found no trace to prove what Bergwall had claimed. His information did not match police investigations, yet he was convicted of making such confessions.

Intrigued by the statements of Bergwall, who was under the influence of strong psychiatric drugs, the doctors and police agreed to cut the drugs and hear new statements from the young man without effect of any drugs. Without the drugs, he stopped making crazy statements and saying his name was Thomas Quick.

Swedish filmmaker Hannes Rastam became interested in the case and, thanks to his research, the story became increasingly clear. He was able to prove that Bergwall was not guilty of any of the eight crimes for which he had been convicted, which helped get him out of the mental hospital in March 2014 after 23 years of confinement.