Thomas Quick: the Swedish serial killer who never was
It reads like a real-life Scandinavian crime novel. In the 1990s, Thomas Quick confessed to more than 30 murders, making him Sweden’s most notorious serial killer. Then, he changed his name and revealed his confessions were all faked
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/20/thomas-quick-bergwall-sweden-murder
This is apropos an earlier post today where investigators lie to themselves and others in order to achieve an end they have predetermined. This is a bit of a long post for some of my reader(s), but I think quite interesting in looking at the 1:1 parallels we see here in the US InJustice system. This quote is very revealing to me:
Judge Göran Lambertz cautions against “rushing to conclusions”. He believes that in the pile of false details Bergwall gave to police, there might still be some elements of truth. This position has made him deeply unpopular in certain parts of Swedish society, especially with those – like Thomas Olsson and Jenny Küttim – who are campaigning for Bergwall’s release.
“A lot of people have made their careers on the Thomas Quick case,” says Küttim. “So today they have a lot to lose.”
Even when faced with essentially insurmountable evidence the judge finds it essentially impossible to even consider that he is wrong. What a whacked up species we are! How the heck did we survive to reach the point where we are destroying the ecosystem of an entire planet?
