Asplund’s killer is said to have recognized – Dagens Industri

Asplund's killer is said to have recognized – Dagens Industri

Asplund’s killer is reported to have acknowledged

                  2014-11-24 22:11
             

On a mobile movie recognize a man he murdered eleven year old Johan Asplund.

The tip gives Now parents hoping solution to a 34-year-old murder mystery.

Johan Asplund was only eleven years old when he disappeared in Sundsvall, 1980. The murder was one of the eight who Sture Bergenwall sentenced for, then under the name of Thomas Quick. The parents, however, claimed that another person is guilty.

A new tip can now come to give clarity to the case.

On a mobile film that police have received in their property, says the killer how he drugged Johan Asplund with chloroform. He would then go out to a cottage, north of Sundsvall, but well ahead Johan was already dead.

It was a mistake, he would not die, says the man weeping on the film of the aftonbladet.se.

“Confused hope”

The magazine has also spoken with the man who according to the hint acknowledged the murder, which is now barred.

I have nothing to say to you, I have left that behind me, he says.

Björn Asplund, father of John, told TT that the new whistleblower has also been in touch with him personally at the end of October.

I Look at it this with some sort of careful confused hope. In all the years we have had time to become a bit hardened so it’s not that we swallow everything and sinker. But I really hope that there is substance in this.

Björn Asplund says that he received indications that there were new tasks as early as April, but it was some time before he found out what they were about. The police contacted him first on Friday.

The police do not dig

According to Mikael Ahrtzing, spokesman for police in Västernorrland is currently not planned any excavation in the area where the man must have buried Johan .

It is difficult to assess, but the hint is so interesting that we follow it up. Exactly where it will go is hard to say at this stage, says Ahrtzing.

criminologist Leif GW Persson is doubtful:

I regard the informant as unreliable. He has repeatedly been in contact with us at This Week’s crimes, and when we tried to check the information he provided, we have stuck to that they can not sue. Therefore, we have decided not to proceed with the case, he says to svd.se. We have noted that the informant is lying on several points.