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      • The journalist, who is no relation to the man who was jailed over the crime, also found that Mr. Engstrom had access to the same kind of weapon used to kill Mr. Palme, that he had been active in a shooting club, that he had political and private motives for killing Mr. Palme, and that his personality matched a police profile of the likely killer.
      www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/world/europe/sweden-olof-palme-killing.html
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  2. In particular, family and friends of Engström almost universally rejected the idea that he could have been a murderer by arguing that he had no reason to kill Palme, had never owned a gun, had no known criminal or extremist connections and had no record of violence.

  3. Jun 10, 2020 · Prosecutors say Stig Engstrom, who killed himself in 2000, was the man who shot Olof Palme in 1986.

    • The Unlikely Murderer Recap
    • The Unlikely Murderer Ending: Did Stig Engström Kill Palme? How Did He Do It?
    • Why Did Stig Kill Palme?
    • Is Stig Dead? How Did He Die?
    • How Could Have Petronella Saved Stig?

    ‘The Unlikely Murderer’ begins on the snowy night of February 28, 1986, in Stockholm. The then Prime Minister of Sweden, Olof Palme, is shot on the corner of a street. Stig Engström is present on the scene and promptly flees while hiding the revolver, he is holding. Moments later, many people gather around the crime scene, and the police arrive sho...

    In the years after Christer’s acquittal, many private investigators begin to poke holes in Stig’s story. The police investigation largely defected away from pursuing Stig as a suspect due to the lack of clarity over his actual whereabouts during the shooting. For the viewers, it is clear from the get-go that Stig is the one who shot Palme. The same...

    Although Stig is Palme’s killer, viewers must note that this is the show’s version of the actual events, and the real Stig was never proven guilty. The series depicts the hypothesis created by Thomas Pettersson. There are a number of loose ends in Thomas’ theory, such as the lack of clear motivation. The series delves into Stig’s past and provides ...

    In the 1990s, we see that the fame Stig achieved through the murder case begins to vanish. He experiences some financial issues and becomes an alcoholic. Stig’s life begins to fall apart after his wife, Margaret, divorces him. Stig eventually died by suicide in 2000. Although there is a lack of clear motive, Thomas is able to link the murder weapon...

    During his last conversation, Stig tells Petronella that she came close to saving him. It is revealed that she was present at the theater on the night of the murder. It is after seeing Petronella that Stig initially decides against shooting Palme. Petronella is one of the few people in Stig’s life who truly cares for him. Before his death, Stig cal...

  4. Jun 10, 2020 · At a news conference in Stockholm, the prosecutor Krister Petersson said that there was “reasonable evidence” that the assailant was Stig Engstrom, a graphic designer at an insurance company,...

  5. Jun 10, 2020 · The gun used in Palme's murder has never been recovered though close to 800 weapons have been tested in the course of the long investigation.

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  6. May 24, 2018 · The journalist, who is no relation to the man who was jailed over the crime, also found that Mr. Engstrom had access to the same kind of weapon used to kill Mr. Palme, that he had been active...

  7. Pettersson's theory is that Palme was shot by one Stig Engström, known as "the Skandia man" (Skandiamannen) after his employer, the Skandia insurance company, whose head office is located next to the murder scene. In earlier accounts Engström had been treated mostly as a witness, specifically (by his own assertion) the first eyewitness to ...

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