
About this episode
In the early 1990s, Sture Bergwall, a patient at Säter mental institution in Sweden was undergoing the facility’s revolutionary memory-recovery therapy, when he revealed a shocking incident from his past: back in 1980, he had killed an 11-year-old boy. As the therapy continued, more and more brutal confessions came, until he was linked to 39 of Sweden’s most infamous murders, and became known as the nation’s answer to Hannibal Lecter – a sadistic, cannibalistic serial-killer paedophile.
So strap in for shocking confessions, repressed memories, experimental psychotherapy, and a revelation that shook the Swedish justice system to its core…
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