1 00:00:12,120 --> 00:00:16,239 Carola says that Håkan sold her as a sex slave. 2 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:19,120 He says that it never happened. 3 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:22,200 Who is telling the truth? 4 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:29,240 THE SEX SLAVE 5 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:35,960 All text messages are taken from the preliminary police investigation. 6 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:40,840 How much? 7 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:42,920 One thousand 8 00:00:43,480 --> 00:00:46,360 Come a little after 10 pm. The kids are still up. 9 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,440 [Carola] I know who sold me. 10 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:58,640 But I don't know who bought me. 11 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:08,440 [Lagh] It's a completely unbelievable story. 12 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:09,880 MOTHER OF YOUNG CHILDREN HELD AS SEX SLAVE 13 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:14,600 A mother of young children being sold as a sex slave 14 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:17,039 by her own live-in boyfriend in their house. 15 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:19,120 TOOK MOBILE PAYMENTS 16 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:20,520 NORRTÄLJE SPORTS FIGURE ARRESTED 17 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:22,240 [Nora] You never think it would happen in Norrtalje, 18 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:24,039 let alone anyone you knew. 19 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:26,960 He monitors her constantly. 20 00:01:27,039 --> 00:01:30,280 [Carola] With GPS when I was outside the house 21 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:32,560 and video cameras in the house. 22 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:37,920 [Lagh] He blindfolds her and ties her to the kitchen table... 23 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:41,440 where he sells her. 24 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,560 -Does she do blowjobs? -Yes. 25 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:50,360 [Carola] I didn't know if it was one man or if it was multiple men. 26 00:01:50,479 --> 00:01:54,039 Over a hundred people came to our house. 27 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:56,680 [Lagh] There are thousands of chats. 28 00:01:56,759 --> 00:01:57,759 I would love to suck you off Come here, it's hard I'm so sexually frustrated 29 00:01:57,840 --> 00:01:59,240 You'd have to read all of them 30 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:01,960 to understand the full scale of this. 31 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,360 [Nora] He was very well-liked by basically everyone. 32 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:10,039 [Tomas] He worked as a teacher. 33 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:14,120 She worked in retail. 34 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,040 They lived in a house in Norrtalje. 35 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:19,440 Everything seemed normal. 36 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:22,600 But then again, that's often how the story goes. 37 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:31,840 [Nora] She's been victimized by a person 38 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:37,000 who we all live with and constantly spend time with. 39 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:42,680 [Bjorn] It's a big investigation that we put a lot of resources into, 40 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,240 because we needed to. 41 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:48,800 [Tomas] She doesn't know how many men there were. 42 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:50,680 It could be like she says. 43 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:54,640 Or it could be like he says. 44 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:00,400 [Håkan] It's perfectly obvious that these are false accusations. 45 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:06,200 If you follow the logic and ask the right questions, 46 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:08,320 then the truth will come out. 47 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,200 You'll reach the same conclusion. I'm innocent. 48 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:19,560 Carola lied. 49 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:22,079 Period. 50 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:35,400 [low, tense music] 51 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:45,240 [Carola] For as long as I can remember, I've wanted a big family. 52 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:52,000 It gives me so much joy to be with my kids, 53 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:54,280 to see them grow and change. 54 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:03,160 In high school, I met my future husband, Daniel. 55 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:11,120 [Eva] She was just a regular, happy girl. 56 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,400 She was only 16 years old or something like that, 57 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:18,040 and my son was a little older. 58 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:24,080 We had a great connection right from the beginning. 59 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,200 When they had the kids... 60 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:33,240 that connection only grew. 61 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:35,600 She really let us in. 62 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:39,880 [Carola] We both had full-time jobs. 63 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:41,920 Three kids. 64 00:04:44,159 --> 00:04:47,720 A red house on the countryside. 65 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:52,720 I had everything you're supposed to for a happy, normal life. 66 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:07,360 I guess we started to lose the spark after baby number two. 67 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:15,040 We sort of lost each other in the relationship at that point. 68 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:19,800 We both got a little bored. 69 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:27,600 There were times when the normal average Joe sex was really nice, 70 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:30,800 but we both still wanted to try something new. 71 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:36,440 I think I just wanted some sexual thrills. 72 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:41,200 We decided to open up our relationship. 73 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:48,360 My husband wanted us to place an ad for 74 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:51,240 a threesome and possibly a foursome. 75 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:53,240 HAIR COLOR BLACK 76 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:55,000 It was a little vague. 77 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:57,200 We didn't really know what we were looking for, 78 00:05:57,280 --> 00:05:59,040 HORNY CAR MECHANIC WANTS TO HAVE SOME FUN 79 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:01,760 so it was more dependent on what kind of replies we would get. 80 00:06:01,840 --> 00:06:03,880 CARRO85, 27 - STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 167 CM - 85 KG - ATTRACTIVE 81 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,000 As a girl, you get a lot of validation on these sites. 82 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:08,520 MESSAGES - LIKES - VISITS 83 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,440 There were hundreds of replies. 84 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:20,600 I chose... 85 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:25,000 one of these replies. 86 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:27,000 Where do you live? 87 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:30,000 I think the distance was the most crucial factor at first, 88 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:33,000 the fact that he lived so close by. 89 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:35,360 And that was Håkan. 90 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:37,720 HÅKAN NORRTÄLJE - SWEDEN SINGLE MALE SEEKS WOMAN 192 CM - 95 KG - ATTRACTIVE 91 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:43,400 We exchanged phone numbers, 92 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:49,040 and I was just supposed to call him on my way home from work. 93 00:06:49,159 --> 00:06:52,720 But he was already pretty forward. 94 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:56,720 Eventually, we decided to meet. 95 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:08,840 I think it's a good place to meet someone for the first time. 96 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:13,200 On the other side, 97 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:16,640 there are rocks where you can sit and chat. 98 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:27,760 My first impression of him was... 99 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,080 very kind. 100 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:33,640 He was worldly, and he stood out. 101 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:38,800 It mattered a lot that he had interests, 102 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:42,680 that he worked out at the gym and took care of himself 103 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,560 and was into speedboats. 104 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,840 When we're out there on that island, 105 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:59,040 he asks me what I wanna do. 106 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:02,760 And I say that I don't know. 107 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:06,720 And then he says, "I'd like to kiss you." 108 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:12,440 So I reply, "Well, go ahead." 109 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:22,440 And then it was just like an explosion of emotions. 110 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:28,000 And we went back to his place. 111 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:41,720 [Anneli] She hadn't yet been through what I had been through. 112 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:48,640 She was only at the beginning and on her way in. 113 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:52,160 ANNELI HÅKAN'S EX-GIRLFRIEND 114 00:08:54,800 --> 00:09:00,200 To Håkan, I'm the woman who came before Carola. 115 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:06,880 The best date I ever had was with Håkan. 116 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:09,000 It was amazing. 117 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:12,000 There were roses, it was nice and cozy, 118 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:14,920 and he was so thoughtful and amazing. 119 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:19,720 Stable and strong and manly. 120 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:24,600 So incredibly good at seduction. 121 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:30,960 I never thought he could be dangerous, 122 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:33,520 but I understood relatively early on 123 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:35,480 that things weren't adding up. 124 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:44,040 I reacted immediately when Carola met him. 125 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:45,600 "EVA" CAROLA'S FORMER MOTHER-IN-LAW 126 00:09:45,680 --> 00:09:47,120 "This isn't good." 127 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:52,240 He started courting her very openly. 128 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:57,200 She was very receptive to it at that time. 129 00:09:59,960 --> 00:10:07,440 He came to her work on Valentine's Day with roses. 130 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:12,360 He's showing her and the world how amazing everything is. 131 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:17,640 It was like she was under some kind of spell. 132 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:23,520 [♪] 133 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:27,600 Naked and waiting, send a pic. 134 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:35,400 If I say please? 135 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:37,480 [Carola] Very quickly after he came into my life, 136 00:10:37,560 --> 00:10:42,000 we entered this whirlwind romance. 137 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,320 He was so intense about getting to know me 138 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:49,880 and learning who I was, and I... 139 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:53,320 had never really felt that way before. 140 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:57,080 So, after only six months... 141 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:02,000 I made the decision to get a divorce. 142 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:09,280 [Nora] I was four or five years old when my mom and dad got divorced 143 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:10,800 and Mom met Håkan. 144 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:16,680 Everyone else saw him as... 145 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:18,120 NORA CAROLA'S DAUGHTER 146 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:21,240 ...a good person in general. 147 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:26,040 He was very well-liked by basically everyone. 148 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:30,200 And it was really frustrating for me 149 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:33,320 when I knew what kind of person he really was. 150 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:40,080 He's very good at adapting to different situations. 151 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:44,240 He can be the funny one. He can be the quiet one. 152 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:47,440 He can be the loud one. 153 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:51,120 He's got all these sides to him. 154 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:55,640 It's when you meet him that you get the whole picture. 155 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:59,560 There's something about him that words can't describe. 156 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:09,840 [Jenny] She was deeply in love with Håkan. 157 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:13,920 THE SMÅLAND HOUSE SOLD 158 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:16,280 It all happened so quickly. 159 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:19,040 They got a loan for a house on Bjorno, 160 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:20,600 and not just any house. 161 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:22,240 JENNY CAROLA'S FRIEND 162 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:24,640 It had to have this huge garage because of his boating hobby. 163 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,160 There's a lot of money involved, 164 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:30,640 and their finances were quite strained. 165 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:36,760 They had a goal in mind, and that was to create a façade. 166 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:43,200 And from Håkan's side, I think it was also about him 167 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:45,600 having additional control over Carola. 168 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:52,160 [Lagh] The situation that Carola is in 169 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:54,440 is that she lives in this relationship with Håkan. 170 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:55,560 REBECCA LAGH CAROLA'S LAWYER 171 00:12:55,680 --> 00:12:58,120 She has five children, two with Håkan, 172 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:01,200 and three children from another relationship. 173 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:06,000 She lives in a world where she has absolutely no wiggle room whatsoever. 174 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:09,000 She's completely at Håkan's mercy. 175 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:14,880 He wanted to have rough, violent sex that she didn't really want. 176 00:13:16,680 --> 00:13:20,640 Håkan has, on numerous occasions, 177 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:23,960 performed vaginal, anal, and oral intercourse 178 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:26,080 in their home against her will. 179 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:40,440 [Carola] I think that for Håkan, sex is about power and control. 180 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:45,120 His needs are the only thing that matters. 181 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:51,240 Sometimes, we would have sex and I was on top of him, 182 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:53,480 and it would start off nice, 183 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:56,120 and then out of nowhere, he would slap me. 184 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:04,640 He would throw me onto the bed, 185 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:06,880 face-down... 186 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:10,200 and rape me anally. 187 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:17,360 And I remember grabbing the covers really hard. 188 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:23,400 And once he was done, he'd tell me, 189 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:25,440 "Go take a shower." 190 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:31,160 Somewhere inside him is the person I love, 191 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:33,120 the same person who did this to me, 192 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:36,320 so I'm trying to defend it, 193 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:39,400 that it's probably not like I thought it was. 194 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:46,560 So then it was like my experiences didn't happen. 195 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:49,880 Feels like my experiences didn't-- 196 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,320 It's hard to explain, but like they didn't happen. 197 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:02,120 [Lagh] I've seen a lot of cases where 198 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:07,600 you break someone down simply by exercising power and control. 199 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:13,320 You switch between cold and warm moods, 200 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:16,360 and the one being subjected to this 201 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:19,880 never really knows where they stand with this person. 202 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:25,240 And eventually, you end up blaming yourself most of the time. 203 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:28,440 "If I just do things differently, 204 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:32,240 he'll be nicer and love me," or something like that. 205 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:34,640 And you're constantly pushing your limits. 206 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:38,120 And that's extremely clear in Carola's case. 207 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:50,640 [Carola] I think it was at that point that I started to doubt 208 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:53,520 everything about myself. 209 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:57,160 He constantly made me doubt the truth. 210 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:02,240 If I had experienced something, he could make me believe 211 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:05,760 that I'd experienced something else entirely. 212 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:17,960 [Nora] I felt like I had lost my mom, 213 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:23,960 because she was no longer the same mom I had grown up with. 214 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:26,560 She was a completely different person. 215 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:34,000 She was so under his control that she lost herself in it, 216 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:39,640 so caught up in what he wanted and what he told her to do. 217 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:43,680 You know the rules go all the way, right? 218 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:47,240 Of course, I know what I'm doing and what I want. 219 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:48,720 Write the rules here? 220 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:51,120 [Lagh] He asked a lot of her. 221 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:54,200 He went to such extremes all the time. 222 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:59,960 Pretty early on, he got her to sign contracts in his chat. 223 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:03,400 For example, he could sleep with whoever he wanted, 224 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:05,200 as many women as he wanted, 225 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:08,160 but she wasn't allowed to sleep with anyone except Håkan. 226 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:11,640 You can sleep with other people. I can only sleep with you. 227 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:16,119 Even if we break up, you still get to sleep with me and decide who I can see. 228 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:18,560 YOU'RE IN CHARGE 229 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:24,960 [Carina] I'm not used to the idea of having contracts. 230 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:28,960 I didn't know how to react when she told me. 231 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:33,240 "Wait, what? What did you just say?" 232 00:17:33,360 --> 00:17:34,120 CARINA CAROLA'S FRIEND 233 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:35,480 I didn't understand. 234 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:38,720 You couldn't say anything to her 235 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:41,160 because she wasn't receptive to it. 236 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:48,560 [Carola] He words things in such a way 237 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:53,560 that he turns it into about how much he cares about me. 238 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:58,400 It was purely sexual. 239 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:04,800 Meanwhile, he saw me as the woman he loved, 240 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:08,800 who he wanted to spend the rest of his life with. 241 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:20,680 When we built a house together, he set up cameras in the house. 242 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:22,960 CAM 2 243 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:30,840 Pretty quickly, I noticed that they were pointed at me. 244 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:37,120 I'd get messages like, "Why have you been on the couch for so long?" 245 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:40,960 He was monitoring everything through the cameras. 246 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:49,840 If the cameras weren't in their usual spots, 247 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:52,840 you never really knew where it was safe to move around. 248 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:56,840 Put the bedroom camera where it's supposed to be 249 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:00,680 I haven't touched it 250 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:11,520 [Jenny] If she left for work 15 minutes early, she'd be told, 251 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:15,520 "Who are you meeting? Whose dick are you planning to suck?" 252 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:22,480 She would be timed when coming home from work. 253 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,560 What time do you get off tomorrow? 254 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:27,800 4:10 pm. 255 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:34,520 You work from 6 am to 3 pm. 256 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:38,360 [Carola] He always told me that I was lying. 257 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,720 Work was kind of a safe space. 258 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:48,360 Are you on break? 259 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:58,240 I could just be in my own little world sorting merchandise 260 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:00,160 and just exist. 261 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:05,240 But then he'd suddenly pop up behind a shelf, 262 00:20:05,360 --> 00:20:08,360 even though I knew he was supposed to be at work. 263 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:10,480 Who is ---? 264 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:18,160 Delete her on Facebook. 265 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:31,920 He'd print out my phone records every month. 266 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:36,800 So then we'd sit at the kitchen table, 267 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:39,720 where I'd have to account for every call. 268 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:43,720 Sometimes I wasn't sure why I'd called a certain number, 269 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:45,760 and then I'd have to call them. 270 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:49,360 I can't shake the feeling that you're lying to me—about your calls, your texts, 271 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:53,600 and going to work just to be with other people. And I don't want that. 272 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:57,120 How can I prove that I don't even want to be with anyone else? 273 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:00,440 I'll get your name tattooed on me to prove that I'm yours. 274 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:03,440 It became really important to him 275 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:06,400 that I get his name tattooed. 276 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:12,320 This is a conversation between me and Håkan. 277 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:16,120 "A deal. 278 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:21,360 You're owned by me whether I get a new girlfriend or not. 279 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:24,120 I can see whoever I want, 280 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:27,600 and you'll do everything I ask of you, no matter what." 281 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:30,880 "You will get the tattoo 'Håkan S.' 282 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:35,440 It stands for my name, but also 'Håkan's,' as in my possession. 283 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:37,240 Do we have a deal?" 284 00:21:37,360 --> 00:21:38,800 And I said yes. 285 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:53,320 It became really important to him that I was to be owned by him, 286 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,880 that I stopped being a human being 287 00:21:58,000 --> 00:21:59,480 and just become a possession. 288 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,440 [Nora] He's dangerous to everyone around him 289 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:10,520 because he gets inside your head 290 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:13,560 and controls you without you realizing it yourself. 291 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,000 He's controlling you, 292 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:18,600 and you don't notice until it's too late. 293 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:35,600 She changed from this happy, bubbly, spontaneous person. 294 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,640 Honestly, I couldn't help being angry with her. 295 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:41,480 I'd been very upfront with her. 296 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:43,280 JENNY CAROLA'S FRIEND 297 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:46,080 In hindsight, I feel bad about some stupid things I said. 298 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:50,600 I was trying to be clear and trying to make her understand that this wasn't healthy. 299 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:00,320 [Carina] It started with me not being allowed into their house. 300 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,120 I wasn't allowed to set foot on their property. 301 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:06,720 We were trying to open her eyes to who he really was 302 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:08,960 and what he was really doing to her. 303 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:10,560 CARINA CAROLA'S FRIEND 304 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:14,640 He noticed that we were trying to drive a wedge between them, 305 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:17,560 and then he wouldn't let me contact her at all. 306 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:23,640 [Eva] It's the classic scenario. 307 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:28,440 Her contacts from before were taken away. 308 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:30,320 She was isolated. 309 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:31,560 "EVA" CAROLA'S FORMER MOTHER-IN-LAW 310 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:33,560 He was in charge. 311 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:36,200 She was completely under his thumb. 312 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:46,280 He isolated her so he could do whatever he wanted. 313 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:57,160 Anything can happen behind closed doors. 314 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:10,680 Someone will be coming over. 315 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:23,040 [Carola] My boundaries were constantly being pushed. 316 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,480 One thing was clear: 317 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:27,960 I didn't wanna have sex with another woman. 318 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:33,400 I've arranged for a woman to come over on Sunday. 319 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,160 Okay. What does she want to do? 320 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:41,960 It doesn't matter, you'll both do as I say. 321 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,480 Then I agreed to it to get him to stop nagging me. 322 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:50,720 But then it ended up becoming an obsession for him. 323 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:57,160 It was very intense, and it went on for a very long time. 324 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:02,480 And then it became couples. 325 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,880 Can you get away tomorrow night to meet a couple? 326 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,480 I don't know if I can get a babysitter. 327 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:13,480 Toward the end, things just escalated so quickly, so I-- 328 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:18,360 I don't know what he was feeling or what he was thinking, 329 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,680 but his lines were blurring too. 330 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:27,760 Come down, take your clothes off and you'll get it 331 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,840 BDSM entered the picture very quickly. 332 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:41,320 There was a black plastic box 333 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,800 on top of a closet in our bedroom 334 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:50,720 where he kept sex toys, whips... 335 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:55,000 and various kinds of rope. 336 00:25:56,560 --> 00:26:00,320 Håkan liked to play "master and slave." 337 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:07,600 We had a very open floor plan and big windows, 338 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:11,880 so we had to hang sheets over all the windows. 339 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:19,360 He strapped me to the dining room table 340 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:23,120 where we usually sat and ate with our children. 341 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:28,760 Then he'd put a blindfold on me, 342 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:32,640 and also a ball gag. 343 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:39,720 There's this panic where you don't know how long it's going to last 344 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:42,680 or when it's gonna end, 345 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:44,960 when he'll finally be satisfied. 346 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:53,520 [Nora] Our bedrooms were upstairs, so we'd go up to bed. 347 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,760 After that, we weren't allowed downstairs, 348 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:02,160 especially not into the kitchen to get anything to eat or drink. 349 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:09,040 I guess something was happening downstairs that he didn't want us to know about. 350 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:16,640 Come a little after 10 pm. The kids are still up. 351 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,720 [Carola] There were several times when he'd tie me up 352 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:29,840 and then tell me other people were coming over. 353 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,840 What happens if she notices? 354 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:37,320 How does she feel about it? 355 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:42,600 [Carola] And eventually, it actually started happening. 356 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:46,320 She doesn't need to know. She's blindfolded. 357 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:50,480 The only sense I really have is my hearing, 358 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:55,720 so the whole time, I'm trying to hear what's going on. 359 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,360 How many footsteps do I hear? 360 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,320 They never said anything, either. 361 00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:13,560 I didn't know if it was one man 362 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,800 or if there were multiple men, 363 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:21,040 or if there were different men every time. 364 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,280 Panic is, um... 365 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,080 a strange thing. 366 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:42,320 There were so many times when I wished he'd just, like-- 367 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,640 that he'd just end it all. 368 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:02,320 There were well over a hundred people. 369 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:08,560 You'd think one of those people would have sensed that something was off. 370 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,840 And then you're supposed to come to work 371 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:25,000 and be happy and act like nothing happened. 372 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:37,320 But as you're there at the register helping all the customers... 373 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:41,200 you think, "Is it him?" 374 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:45,440 "Or is it him?" 375 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:50,280 As soon as I saw a man... 376 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,280 I would think, "Could it be him?" 377 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,120 [Nora] So I noticed that Mom had bruises 378 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,520 on her legs and on her arms. 379 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,440 Whenever I asked her, she'd say, 380 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:13,000 "I just dropped a pallet on my leg at work." 381 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,920 And I thought he was beating her. 382 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:25,440 I didn't know how. I didn't know why. 383 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:31,920 Me and my siblings would find Mom crying. 384 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:35,080 When we asked what was wrong, she'd just say, "I'm tired." 385 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:40,880 It was like an anger inside of me that I wanted everyone to know. 386 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:47,560 It reached a point where I felt like it was no longer worth it 387 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:51,320 to put that energy into trying to save my mom 388 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:56,360 when it didn't seem like she wanted to be saved. 389 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:59,000 So at one point, I'm talking to my mom, 390 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:02,800 and I say, "Now you have to choose. 391 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:04,640 It's me or him." 392 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,080 And she says, 393 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,800 "You know I can't do that." 394 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,880 That's when I moved in with my dad and started living there full-time. 395 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:30,320 To be on the outside and try to help someone who's being abused, 396 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,400 it's very frustrating. 397 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,560 They've seen that she's changed. 398 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,440 But they also become powerless. 399 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,480 And Carola hasn't been able to leave. 400 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:57,320 [Carola] After almost ten years, he had complete control of everything 401 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,080 and full custody of the children. 402 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:03,760 He had made me sign over the house. 403 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:09,600 He had complete access to all my communication channels. 404 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:16,400 [Lagh] She's a shadow of a person. 405 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,680 She has nothing left. 406 00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:20,920 She can't see a way out. 407 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,960 But what she doesn't know 408 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:30,120 is that there's a police investigation underway. 409 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:42,000 [♪] 410 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:43,880 POLICE 411 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,800 [Bjorn] Someone made an anonymous call to the non-emergency line. 412 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,280 The tip says there's a woman who's being subjected to 413 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:54,360 extreme control with very little freedom. 414 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:55,680 CAM 2 415 00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:58,760 She was being monitored with a GPS tracker... 416 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:04,280 and surveillance cameras inside the house. 417 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:08,600 She was being subjected to rape several times a week. 418 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:10,400 BJÖRN POLICE 419 00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:14,840 And all the while, there were also young children living in that home. 420 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:16,440 TOMAS POLICE 421 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,040 Because of that, we have to think this through very carefully. 422 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:26,600 [Bjorn] In this case, we couldn't contact the woman that this tip was about, 423 00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:28,240 as that could make things worse. 424 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:31,720 We were worried about what might happen to her. 425 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,560 [Tomas] A person who is under surveillance 426 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,840 will never be able to freely tell the police about it. 427 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:48,520 We can't take any chances. We can't just guess. 428 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:56,280 One thing that stood out about this case was that... 429 00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,760 REBECCA SOCIAL SERVICES 430 00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:02,800 ...he'd managed to get custody of the children 431 00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:09,560 and had control over every aspect of their life. 432 00:34:09,679 --> 00:34:13,960 If you're an abuser and you wanna keep up your façade, 433 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:18,199 then teaching is the best job you can get. 434 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:22,840 [Bjorn] We spoke to people who were 435 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,040 on the periphery of Carola's social circle. 436 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:31,360 At the time, we didn't know 437 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,480 who might still be communicating with the suspect. 438 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,840 So we had to think outside the box 439 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,280 without putting anyone in... 440 00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:46,239 serious danger. 441 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,160 [Rebecca] The police received this anonymous report, 442 00:34:57,240 --> 00:35:01,080 and then they called a joint action meeting. 443 00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:03,800 The child welfare caseworker was invited, 444 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:07,120 and I was invited as a domestic violence social worker. 445 00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:11,600 We sat there and discussed how we could help Carola 446 00:35:11,720 --> 00:35:15,240 while also acting in accordance with the law. 447 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,000 First, the child welfare caseworker 448 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:22,360 summoned Carola to a meeting. 449 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:33,520 So Carola thought it would be a normal meeting about her children. 450 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:40,240 And in the next room, the police were waiting. 451 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:48,960 We knew beforehand that he normally had a GPS on her. 452 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,160 We also know from experience 453 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:56,000 that men using GPS tracking might also use audio surveillance. 454 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:02,240 If there's a chance that Håkan is listening to her 455 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,600 and I ask her questions about abuse, 456 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,480 she's not gonna answer truthfully. 457 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,840 It also increases the risk that he'll hurt her even more. 458 00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,360 So I had written down in a notebook 459 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:19,280 and asked her if she was wearing a wire. 460 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:22,160 IS SOMEONE LISTENING IN? 461 00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,120 And then she looked at me, 462 00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,400 and that's when I knew that... 463 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,440 our suspicions were correct. 464 00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:37,600 It really messes with your head. 465 00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,280 It's like a weight has been lifted, 466 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,880 but I'm panicking at the same time. 467 00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:51,920 I realize that they know more than I think they know. 468 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:57,880 She soon tells me that she's been working with the police on this for about two months. 469 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:05,600 And if I'm willing to talk to them, 470 00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,520 they're willing to help me. 471 00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:21,120 The woman that we first met during the interrogation process, 472 00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:26,000 I perceived her as broken and going through an acute phase of trauma. 473 00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:39,200 When you get to that point where you can't-- 474 00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:44,200 where you can't take it anymore... 475 00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:49,080 the fear and the panic kind of leave you. 476 00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:55,280 [Tomas] She tells me everything she has been subjected to 477 00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:57,840 throughout this ordeal, 478 00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,120 which is a huge amount of intercourse 479 00:38:01,240 --> 00:38:05,200 and other sexual activities without any consent. 480 00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,440 [Lagh] The police talk to Carola, 481 00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:12,840 and she confirms what this report says. 482 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:17,800 Then, the prosecutor decides to take Håkan into custody. 483 00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:20,120 There are a lot of logistics involved 484 00:38:20,240 --> 00:38:23,200 to keep Håkan from realizing what's going on. 485 00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,360 Why aren't you answering? 486 00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:29,440 There's a GPS tracker in her car. 487 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:33,400 They make sure someone is driving her usual route 488 00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:37,480 so Håkan won't know through the GPS that she's going somewhere else. 489 00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,600 At the same time, 490 00:38:39,720 --> 00:38:45,480 they're planning to arrest Håkan at his workplace. 491 00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:54,800 [Tomas] To arrest someone at their workplace is obviously highly invasive, 492 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:58,080 but we came to the conclusion that there was no other way. 493 00:38:58,240 --> 00:39:03,240 The evidence is often digital in cases like this. 494 00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:07,280 It's really not very hard to delete things in the cloud 495 00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:09,600 or even remotely these days. 496 00:39:09,720 --> 00:39:14,200 A lot of the evidence was in the phone that he had with him at his workplace. 497 00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,040 [Bjorn] We searched the home. 498 00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:25,680 We seized phones, computers, and iPads. 499 00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:26,960 He’s sitting on the couch next to me. If he can’t sleep, I shouldn’t sleep either. 500 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,040 He got upset that I had talked to Carina, so he spat. 501 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,560 The full picture that emerged from the evidence was enormous. 502 00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:35,000 A large volume of digital material. 503 00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:39,280 [Lagh] There are thousands of chats. 504 00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:41,480 You have to read all of them 505 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,600 to understand the full scale of this. 506 00:39:43,720 --> 00:39:46,200 Do you want to and have the money for it? 507 00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:50,520 There are conversations with other men where he's selling her. 508 00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:59,880 And that's a shock to her. 509 00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:01,240 How much will you pay? 510 00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:03,600 Up to 2,000 if we can do most stuff 511 00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:07,760 Come in. 512 00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:10,320 Then she can have 2,500. 513 00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:12,320 What does she think about it? 514 00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,960 [Tomas] She explained to us that this had happened repeatedly over the years. 515 00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:18,280 [Bjorn] We interviewed about 40 people. 516 00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:20,240 This was a major investigation 517 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:23,440 and we devoted a great deal of resources to it, because we had to. 518 00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:29,680 [Tomas] We connected chats 519 00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:34,880 to GPS positioning, to mobile payments. 520 00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:36,320 SENDER - RECEIVER 521 00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:39,320 It's clear that this had to be paid for 522 00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:40,920 and that the money was important. 523 00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,520 People are willing to pay 2,000 just to watch. What can you offer? 524 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:49,560 He-- he made money off me. 525 00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:55,760 It's so absurd that it almost doesn't register. 526 00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:57,680 Wednesday? 527 00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,560 I'm a sports coach, so I'm busy most nights. 528 00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:13,440 The worst feeling was that I know who sold me, 529 00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:16,960 but I don't know who bought me. 530 00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:22,280 [Nora] It didn't take long for the headlines to appear. 531 00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,160 NORRTÄLJE SPORTS FIGURE ARRESTED 532 00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:27,040 I remember old friends started to contact me. 533 00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:28,040 TEACHER ARRESTED 534 00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:29,400 He teaches at my kids' school! 535 00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:30,200 How can you sell your wife? 536 00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:32,440 Fucking monster. Just shoot him. 537 00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:34,080 Bervo, just shoot him. 538 00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:38,560 To this day, I can't understand how he, as a father of three 539 00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:39,680 Originally posted by fantasia73 Who is the sports profile? H*kan --- called the fandom. 540 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:42,080 and a teacher, could do this to Carola. 541 00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:44,400 COWORKERS: HE WAS A WELL-LIKED TEACHER 542 00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:49,680 I would have guessed that there was rape and abuse going on. 543 00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:51,640 One more. You got it. 544 00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:55,120 But it was to such a horrible degree 545 00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:57,880 that I never could have imagined. 546 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:06,160 [Anneli] I don't think Håkan has any limits. 547 00:42:10,720 --> 00:42:14,000 I'm inclined to think that he's capable of anything. 548 00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:21,320 I think Håkan believes that he's a great person 549 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:23,880 who hasn't done anything wrong. 550 00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:26,320 That's the way he is. 551 00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:30,480 I wouldn't have guessed that he sold her, 552 00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:32,560 but the rest, I would have. 553 00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:35,880 Simple as that. 554 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:39,920 He never takes the blame for anything he's done. 555 00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:47,080 He'll keep denying it until the day he dies. 556 00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:53,520 [director] Håkan has agreed to be in this documentary. 557 00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:55,280 How do you feel about that? 558 00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:08,360 I think it goes to show... 559 00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:10,840 how sick he is. 560 00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:17,200 [Håkan] It's not true. 561 00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:22,920 It's perfectly obvious that these are false accusations. 562 00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:26,360 If you follow the logic and ask the right questions, 563 00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:29,040 then the truth will come out. 564 00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:31,040 She's lying. 565 00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:34,880 I'm innocent.