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"It’s obvious this man has a scalpel and
knows how to use it . . .
You don’t find that kind of cutting edge on an ordinary
knife. He knows precisely where all the internal organs are.
Which makes it easy for him to remove the heart, the liver,
the kidneys or the womb."
- Taken from a report filed by Dr. Haerm on a victim of
the Stockholm serial killer.
To begin
with I'll sort out the names. Some books refer to the young
witness in this case as Teet Haerm's young daughter and
others refer to her as being Dr. Allgrens daughter. I guess
that I'll let you decide on the identity as I am not 100%
certain either way (although I believe that she is Dr.
Haerms daughter). ALSO the name of the doctor himself - Dr.
Teet Haerm. Sometimes it is spelt Haerm, sometimes Harm, and
sometimes Härm. Since I prefer Haerm that's the one I'll
use, okay? So let's get to the story.
Dr. Haerm is almost alone in his field when it comes to
murder. You see the good doctor was head forensic
psychologist for the police in Stockholm, Sweden. He was
very highly respected in the field as well.
So let us start this story in 1984. Haerm was a medical
examiner that was used regularly by Stockholm police in the
cities murder cases. He had also been published in many
forensic medical journals which had made sure that he was
well on the way to becoming an established expert in the
field. His pet topics were suicide by strangulation and the
methods of sexual psychopaths. All his success was seen as
triumph in the face of adversity as his wife had killed
herself two years earlier leaving Teet to bring up their
daughter alone.
On July 19, 1984, the carefully dissected body of Catrine de
Costa was found in garbage bags on a police sports ground.
Dr. Haerm was called in and he reconstructed the body
(except for the head and one breast which could not be
found). D. Haerm was able to find the identity of the body
through fingerprints.
One week later the good doctor was called in again.
26-year-old prostitute Annika Mors was found dead in a
public park. Dr. Haerm found that she had been savagely
raped, then strangled and mutilated. He also said that he
believed the same perpetrator has committed the earlier
murder of de Costa. Dr. Haerm told the head investigator in
the case that, "This surgery was done in a very professional
manner. . . the person who did this must have medical
training."
On August 1st another body was found. Kristine Cravache, 27,
was found naked and strangled in Stockholm’s red light
district.
Over the next few weeks Lena Grans, Cats Falk, Lena Bofors,
Lena Manson and Lota Svenson all disappeared. Police assumed
that they all suffered the same fate as the first three.
One of these women, Lena Bofors, had promised to supply
police with information on the murderer, whom she said
worked for the police. Unfortunately for police and Lena she
was never seen again following her promise of ‘naming
names’.
Not having any real clues to go on police chose to blanket
the red light district. All prostitutes were questioned
about strange men. As one would expect they received quite a
few tit bits of information, but almost all mentioned one
guy in particular, a man driving a white VW.
Once police did a check on the white VW van they came up
with a name that surprised them, Dr. Teet Haerm. He was
bought in for questioning.
While Haerm was being questioned police searched his home.
There they found something very disturbing - a picture of
his wife choking to death. I guess that it would have been
hard for her to have taken this picture as she had
apparently hung herself. The police believed they had
another murder on their hands.
But police still didn’t have enough to prove anything
definite so they had to release the doctor. The fact that
nothing had been proven against him his employer still found
reason to fire him from his job.
While Haerm was trying to find his feet back on the street
without a job, with a massive stigma attached to his name,
police continued to look into the serial murder case that he
was suspected of.
But police were getting nowhere, if it was Dr. Haerm who had
acted out these murders he had covered his tracks much to
well, or so it seemed at this stage.
In March 1985 the bodies of two of the missing prostitutes
were found. Lena Grans and Cats Falk were found in a car
submerged near the sea near Hamarby. They were killed in a
similar manner to the earlier victims.
On January 7, 1986, another body was found. Tazunga Toyonaga,
a Japanese student, was found in Copenhagen. She had also
been strangled and mutilated.
One of Dr. Haerm’s best friends was Dr. Thomas Allgren. Dr.
Allgren also had a secret passion, but his was much more
nasty than Teet’s, he liked to play with his little
daughter, Karin. Favourite games probably included "Doctors
and Nurses", "Where’s My Finger?" and "Suck on Daddies
Cock." Now don’t get me wrong, I’m all for being close to
your kids, but sometimes you can get just a little too
close, and this arsehole had gone well over the line.
So when police found out about this sicko’s pastimes they
were quick to pounce on him. He didn’t take his time in
admitting his ‘love’ for his 4 year old daughter. He also,
when prompted, told police that his friend Teet was present
on some occasions when he molested the little girl. But he
went further, he told police that he had helped butcher
prostitutes with his friend also.
Allgren told police that Haerm picked up prostitutes from
the street and took them back to the morgue. Once there he
would ‘do his business’, then strangle and dismember them.
Allgren told police that Haerm was intent on wiping whores
off the face of the earth. He also said that Haerm was very
fond of eating the prostitutes flesh. I guess butchering
whores can make you pretty hungry. According to Allgren, it
was alway Haerm who initiated the murders, never him.
On October 28, 1987, Haerm was arrested and charged with the
murder of seven prostitutes, his wife and the Japanese
student.
Now we get to my biggest problem in the case, the
prosecutions lead witness - Haerm’s 5 year old daughter
(sometimes referred to as Karin Allgren). Apparently she
witnessed the two doctors behead a whore with a power-saw.
Now before you go thinking that the word of a five year old
is okay, I’ll tell you that she was TWO at the time of the
murder. She was FIVE when she testified. What the
prosecution want us to believe is that she was able to
remember something that happened when she was TWO YEARS OLD.
Personally I think this is a load of shit. To even expect
people to believe this crap seems insulting to their
intelligence, but prosecutors were able to find twelve
people who bought it, and unfortunately these were the
twelve people in the jury box.
"They threw the head away. . . and then the lady was chopped
up."
Both Haerm and Allgren were found guilty of one murder,
prostitute Catrine de Costa, and were both given life
sentences.
AND NOW IT GETS REALLY STRANGE!!!
In May 1988 Dr. Teet Haerm and Dr. Thomas Allgren were given
a retrial. I guess a judge realised how stupid it was to
convict a man on the word on an accomplice who admitted his
part in the crime under extreme duress and a three year old
memory of a five year old child.
The new judge found that while both men probably committed
the act of murder there was a high level of doubt. He
ordered both doctors to be released.
As far as I know these two are still living the life of free
men.
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