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Catrine da Costa

Nacimiento : 1956-06-19, Luleå, Sweden

Muerte : 1984-07-18

Historia

Catrine Beatrice da Costa, born Bäckström, was a Swedish woman who was brutally murdered in June 1984. She was married to the Portuguese Jose da Costa with whom she had a son. They lived in Coimbra, Portugal, and Stockholm, Sweden. Catrine da Costa was last seen on Malmskillnadsgatan in Stockholm on June 10, 1984. One week later, on June 18th, the dismembered parts of her body where found in plastic bags, spread out far apart. How she died has not been established, since vital organs and her head has not been found.

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Styckmordet: berättelsen om en rättsskandal

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Originally planned as a two part docudrama - "The child's story" and "The double sentence". In the years 1982-84 was three women prostitutes murdered in Stockholm. 27-year-old Catrine da Costa was the third in this row. The murders had similarities that never before was recognized. Two medical doctors identifies as murderers in the media. The two was at first convicted of murder in the district court and then acquitted by the District Court.

Teet Härm - maniakk või ohver?

"Teet Härm - Maniac or Victim?" - suspected of killing a prostitute, Teet Härm became as famous in Sweden as Hannibal Lecter on the cinema screen. At the end of September 2003, the long-running murder scandal took a new turn as Anders Agell, emeritus professor at the Uppsala University, one of the most authoritative legal experts in Sweden, filed a new petition seeking annulment of Teet Härm and his accomplice Thomas Allgén. In the summer of 1984, an accidental passer-by found a black plastic bag containing a young woman's cut body under the motorway in Stockholm's Solna district. A little later, two other similar packages were found nearby.