Sweden - Man cleared in deaths
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A Swedish man long considered Scandinavia’s worst serial killer was cleared of eight murders he once confessed to, after prosecutors Wednesday dropped their final charge against him.
The prosecution said it lacked proof that Sture Bergwall, 63, killed a 15-year-old boy who died on a cold winter night in northern Sweden in 1976.
The convictions against Bergwall — for many years known as Thomas Quick — have been dubbed Sweden’s grossest miscarriage of justice in recent times because of the ease with which he was found guilty of the eight murders, which occurred between 1976 and 1988. Bergwall has been serving a life term in a psychiatric institution.
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