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I'm going to meet Lina and Anna. - Don't be late.

Helen!

HÖRBY, MALMÖ COUNTY.

EASTER 1989.

Lina's number is in the book.

Helen!

Helen!

She had her windbreaker, right?

Police, Kristianstad. Nyström.

What's she wearing? What's your phone number?

Thanks. I'll call you back.

We got a call about a little girl who didn't returned home.

Spread the word. Helén Nilsson, 10-year-old, pink jacket.

- HUNT FOR A KILLER -

Helén! - Helén!

- PART 1 -

160 people are looking for the girl today.

Civil Protection, Orienteers, Mounted Police and Military.

The populated areas have been searched twice, now the focus shifted to the outer areas.

Helén!

We found something!

Over here!

Are you sure?

It's not her jacket.

The girl was last seen in mid-Hörby, by the river, just yesterday,

just a few blocks from home. She's been missing for a day now.

She left home at 7 o'clock yesterday.

The hours go by and we have no clue.

All our focus is on this and we're putting in all our resources.

Did you ask for help in other districts? - I said we're putting in all out resources.

Do you have enough men?

Arne Svensson. - I'm so fucking lonely...

What...? - I get bullied at work... so many women...

Sorry... who is this? - I regret going to hell... unforgivable...I cannot stand...-

This is important, Pelle. - "Culture Bearer"... what does it mean?

"Goal management".

"Control models that create more freedom for employees."

I don't have time for this, I have work to do!

You better find the time. - I better do what I'm good at.

No offense but... you can forget about it.

I also went to the Art Rally. - How nice!

I didn't buy anything though. - You can watch, that's the fun part.

Look what people throw away.

Oh my God!

It's on the public road between Träne and Tollarp.

60 meters down the road by the cairn.

Follow my steps.

You think it's her? - It's probably her.

It's her for sure. - Yes...

Have you not caught him yet? The folks at kindergarten won't let the children outside.

We have no perpetrator yet. - Don't you have any suspects either?

Berg will blow this. Arne has no experience with murders.

It's complicated... - I take this very personally.

Helén was strangled and stuffed into a black garbage bag.

This is an absolute priority. We urge the public to come up with any tips.

That is all for today. - They'll be drowning in "tips".

Why don't they put us on this?

This is a swamp, we should put away half the population.

Arne... how's it going?

10-year-old Helén was raped and then strangled.

Before that, she was also hit in the head with some blunt, elongated object.

The blows were given with precision, which may indicate she was standing still.

Arne, we couldn't trace the call.

You said he had a Scanian accent? - That's right.

I'll catch up later. - Yes.

Helén was still alive after the rape. The body was rinsed.

We found a stain which could be semen but too degraded for a DNA test.

When are the results coming? - Hard to say.

We also found dog or cat hair. - So the bastard has a dog.

She was kept alive for a couple of days so he must have a hideout.

A Volvo has been seen nearby but we have no number plates.

The Volvo could be white, although someone saw a red Volvo.

Tips keep pouring in.

I have a tip to give! - You can fill in the form.

Per-Åke! This profile fits my former neighbor...

Not now.

Arne, you need to bring back order in here.

You think so? - You must be systematic, not take all tips!

I'll keep doing my job, Pelle.

This ain't your case anyway. - I'm only trying to help.

I'm just saying you should check on him.

He's no longer your neighbor? - No he's not.

He was always dirty, he used to stand there and stare at me.

He always looked like he had spilled something on his shirt.

You remember the name? - No.

Leif Storm?

So, Gertrud, you have anything to add?

Yes, I teach football to 15-year-old girls.

There's always a man looking at us. He's standing behind the fence during training.

Could he be some girl's dad or grandad?

No, I've asked around and no one knows him.

I work at Bilsom's and I have a colleague who is always very unpleasant.

He calls all women "sluts" and I heard he slept with a boy in Brazil.

I see him walking his dog, something's wrong with him!

You must listen to her! She saw something very scary!

Just wait outside, I'll be right there.

This colleague of yours... what's his name? It's Olsson, Ulf Olsson.

How's the case going? - It's complicated.

Many think you should have given this case to Per-Åke Akesson.

Good thing the press don't lead investigations. Show some respect.

Sorrow and anger in Hörby while the hunt for the murderer continues.

A large part of the population gathered tonight in Old Town Square.

At about 7 they started to gather, old and young,

to show their grief and disgust at this senseless violence.

On Saturday we expect showers and the rain...

I came as I usually do to watch the deer in the field.

Then I turned around and looked up the road.

I went to take a closer look.

No trailer tracks. She sure has been dumped.

You got a moment? - What does it look like?

Tony just came from Hässleholm. - That's not our district.

What do you have? - A 26-year-old prostitute.

She was found naked on a dirt road. Blows to the head and strangled.

I immediately thought of Helén Nilsson. Jannica Ekblad had the same exact wounds.

I bet she was beaten with something similar to an iron pipe.

She was found just 3.5 miles from Bröd.

Good job. Why would a pedophile suddenly attack an adult woman...

...and leave her in plain sight? Doesn't look like the same perp.

True... but they're weirdly similar.

Also, we found dog hair again on the body and another black back in the ditch nearby.

I like that you're ambitious but remember that's not our district.

We can't just barge in and start our own investigation.

Keep in mind that the murderer doesn't care about borders and districts.

Tips are coming in without a break.

People who know the murderer... who ARE the murderer... you just don't know what to believe to.

One of them might even be him.

Arne, anything else? - No fingerprints but we found another animal hair.

From the same dog? - I can't say.

Gudrun made a profile based on the letter.

It's a careful person. You can tell from the fact he left no fingerprints.

He's not used to express himself in writing and he's young... "chicks" is not a term used by the elderly.

Anything else we should consider? - Nothing certain but this might be either:

1: someone who dreams to kill like this.

2: someone who likes to help solve murders.

3: might be the real murderer. The "fucking lonely" points to that.

No wife and mocked by female colleagues.

He gives a sorry and pathetic picture of himself.

When you question them, pay attention to their word choice... like "chicks" for example.

It's a reiteration of why he feels for himself. That might be a clue.

Strange she didn't mention "Brooding on Revenge".

You must search locally. - We search both locally and nationally.

What possible perps do we have in Hörby? - Calm down now.

I'm just worried, time is flying. Arne, listen...

Don't you have work to do? Quit interfering in this case.

FOUR YEARS LATER

Can you change music? Hello!

What? - Change the music!

Shut up! I'm sick of you! Fuck off!

Augusta?

Augusta!

Pelle... a 90-year-old woman was murdered. You take it.

I biked here, as I always do. I put the bike there and...

Old people are in panic. We must catch who did it.

Five names come to me. - We bring them in.

Look for an injured hand. Tony thinks the killer cut himself.

I'm thinking of Mikael Martinsson. - The butcher? Why?

Grew up with his grandparents and sentenced for the attempted rape of a 70-year-old woman.

He hasn't been seen since Friday.

What the...

I'm out of milk, it'll be black. - It'll be fine.

We don't have time for coffee, we must talk to Mikael.

What has he done now? - We don't know yet but we need a word with him.

We didn't even want him. - He's just problems and shit.

Did you want milk in it? - I don't want coffee, thanks.

She came up and left her kid with us.

Do you know where Mikael is? - You never know where he is.

He's not here, is he? - For fuck's...

He's probably with that one in Bromölla.

With Viktoria.

She lives in Viby in a grey house behind the gas station.

Did you see his hands? He couldn't rape and kill her.

She was crushed. Liver, heart... all broken.

Get out! - Leave me alone! I don't wanna talk!

Society should have taken better care of him.

Must have been a miss. Karin was so fucking sloppy.

You can sit in the back. - What happened to your hand?

I fell off my bike. I don't think that's illegal.

You drive.

Augusta was raped. Sperm was too little to analyze.

She wasn't robbed. 4.000 crowns were still in her purse.

Four witnesses heard a motorbike and Tony found tire marks.

What about Mikael? - 33-year-old, neat on the outside, butcher.

When he was 19 he raped a 70-year-old. He was forced to live with his grandparents who beat him.

I think I'll be able to make him crack.

Is it really the case to try new things?

Monica is a great interrogator. She can be an asset.

She got to talk to the worst sex-offenders.

I don't see anything special. - She seems to have a method.

So you made up your mind on this? She'll do it? - Yes.

Hi, I'm Monica Olhed and this is your interrogatory.

Mikael Martinsson.

Mikael, can you tell me what you did last night? - I was with friends partying.

You partied and then what happened? - Then what?

I went back home and... I don't think that's illegal.

You're suspected of murdering 91-year-old Augusta. What do you have to say about that?

What should I say? I have nothing to say.

How do you feel about it?

It's hard after... all the things that were made up.

I have a dog and a cat... what will happen to them?

I get no unemployment benefits, who's gonna pay then?

When I come out I have nothing! I lost everything!

I'm basically a lawyer but... a practitioner in the first place.

As head of Malmö and Kristianstad I've got my hands dirty.

Blood, sweat and tears out in the real world.

I'd like to see that... - I've attended a course in Stockholm.

Be prepared for the future... Police must be run as a company.

You missed nothing. - Citizens are really our customers.

I know it sounds strange but I promise it will work out.

Has he ever solved a case? - Don't mind him.

Only I can be at peace.

It's important to me that this organization will have high standards.

Every opinion is important.

What thoughts did you have when you went to Augusta's?

Tell it to this brain up here.

Ask the brain: "what will you do in there"?

Mikael, just tell it how you remember it.

Have you done anything sexual to the lady? - No.

Not that I know... I don't think so...

I haven't touched her genitals... haven't grabbed her pussy...

I did nothing and touched nothing.

You did things periodically...

...and about those things you didn't receive the right help.

You may have thought: "I can handle this myself".

It's awful... having killed a human being...

...and she just doesn't exist anymore.

I've actually hit many people... but never killed with two or three blows.

I've slaughtered pigs... that is true... and oxen...

...but I never killed a human being.

I'm mentally disturbed... I'll never become a normal human being.

This man has demons. - Sure, he raped a 70-year-old woman.

You don't do such things once. Ask him about Helén Nilsson.

He's not ready, I'll bring it up at the right time.

But now he's shaking! It happened in Bröd, hardly a coincidence.

Tomorrow. I can't force him now.

His grandparents' house was the dirtiest place I've seen.

He's quite bitter about his mother. - They beat him half to death.

You wanted this?

Mikael Martinsson interrogatory continues. It's 3,10 pm.

We've been sitting here for 5 hours. Is there anything you want to add?

Like what? - Is there anything else you wanna talk about?

I'm worth nothing. - Is that what you think of yourself?

Yes.

How did you feel after it got clear to you what you had done?

That I should take my own life... I have a gun back home.

I used it at work. - How does it feel now that you've told me this...

...knowing that I'm recording your words?

It feels great. - You feel somehow relieved?

Yes... I feel no tension in my body.

You know who she is? - That's Helén Nilsson.

Her face was everywhere, wasn't it?

I had nothing to do with her... I swear.

I don't think he killed Helén. - We have to search his house first.

Helén is Berg's case. - Then I'm totally stuck.

We must look into every sexual crime committed in Skåne.

You live next door to Mikael Martinsson. Do you know him?

You hear me? Do you know Martinsson? - No.

And even if I knew him, I wouldn't probably tell you.

You see that mill? When I was a kid, we all worked there after school.

Idiots like him don't have jobs or anything even close to a job.

Quite a hidden place.

Helén was kept hidden for days. He must have had a hideout somewhere.

Correspondence with the probation officer.

Come look at this.

"Mikael. 1 year".

Four years after Helén Nilsson was murdered the perpetrator is still at large.

Police think there's a connection with the murder of 91-year-old Augusta Ljung in Kristianstad.

The theory now is that it could be the same killer.

The man who was suspected of murdering Augusta Ljung has now come forward.

Can he be also Helén's murderer? - I can't speculate on that.

We always look back at unsolved murders in cases like this.

Åkesson.

I don't know what to say... you don't know how lonely I am.

So fucking lonely...

I feel shame... what I've done is unforgivable.

It just came to me... Helén was killed at six o'clock on Saturday.

Two sacks over her head and one around her legs.

Never mind the other suspects... you never talked to me. I have no criminal record.

I so regret going to hell. Unforgivable.

Completely lonely... - # The train from Stockholm has been delayed...

Go to Central Station in Malmö! Look for a man near the phone boots!

30 to 50. Speaks Scanian.

Pelle. - Is there any cop left at the station?

I can't stand it... I can't stand the loneliness.

What are you doing? - I'm checking who was nearby when Helén was taken.

Are you sure? That's Arne's board.

He hasn't looked deep enough locally. - Come on, Pelle...

The killer is nearby... they somehow have missed him.

He's out there right now.

Pelle. - Majvi.

We're going to catch him. I promise.

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