Mord an Catrine da Costa ist verjährt barred murder in Sweden after 25 years, unlike in Germany. Yesterday, the deadline was in one of the most spectacular criminal cases of the past Century onwards. If the murderers are still alive, he could now be seen and reported with impunity, as he was 25 years ago murdered and dismembered his victim and where he has hidden the missing body parts.
Catrine da Costa was a Swedish citizen, mother of two children and divorced after a marriage to a Portuguese. She was addicted to drugs and financed their habit through prostitution at Pentecost 1984 (on 10.06.1984) she disappeared without a trace. A little more than a month later they found plastic bags with body parts under a highway bridge at Essingeleden in Stockholm. A few days later one kilometer were found more body parts.
missing Until today, the head a breast and internal organs of the victim. As a result, the cause of death was never determined.
In December 1984, police arrested a pathologist who worked in Solna and have been proven customer of prostitutes on the Malmskillnadsgatan, the Stockholm street bar in the city was.
was released five days later, the man due to lack of evidence. In January 1988, the pathologist and a GP was the murder of Catrine da Costa accused and convicted of murder in March. Following a number of procedural errors (jurors had can still be interviewed before the verdict of the evening newspaper Aftonbladet, was due to the lack of body parts, the Cause of death can not be established, so the possibility was not ruled out that da Costa died of natural causes) was rolled up the process again in May 1988 and the two doctors were acquitted of murder. However, the court held that the two doctors had dismembered the body of da Costa. The fact of the corpse desecration was time-barred at this time, however, the two doctors were deprived of their approvals, which were recovered by the relevant authority.
on a towel that is at the remains had da Costa found, there were hair that was neither the victim nor assign the doctors. In Frühajr 2009 was the police that the hospital should issue in Huddinge, the DNA sample of a skilled butcher to compare the DNA. The hospital refused, and received approval from a district court. The last chance to settle the case was lost. The butcher had died from cancer in 2008 and 1984 was one of the suitors to Malmskillnadsgatan. He was convicted of aggravated assault and once had a woman murdered and dismembered.
On the Swedish side
Newsmill today writes journalist Patrick Nyberg, who has for years heavily involved with the murder. He claims that the legal system in Sweden had no interest in resolving the matter and complained to a number of persons who have made the fall career. A Kriminalinspektorin wrote her thesis on the case and, according to Nyberg had a different development of the case led to the theories of the police officer would have fallen in on itself. The police officer had knowledge of it had been shown that a man who was among the customers of da Costa, near the discovery site used to have. One would have never tried to compare the DNA of the man or the aforementioned battle with the existing tracks, as both the police officer as well as the supervisor of her exam work assumed that the two doctors were guilty. One of the
most unprecedented legal scandals of the Swedish judiciary and the failure of the police.
