About This Episode
"Dobbeltdrab uopklaret i 21 år: Nu er mistænkt anholdt" is an episode of Sagen Genåbnet, a Danish true crime podcast that revisits unsolved killings and reopens old cases with the help of modern investigative methods. Hosted by Jesper Vestergaard Larsen and Sanne Fahnøe, the episode examines the murders of an elderly married couple, Tor Öberg and Gerd Wiklund, who were found dead on a farm near the Swedish town of Brattås in June 2005.
The two victims had been killed two days before they were discovered. The attack was brutal, carried out with an axe. The murder weapon was never recovered, and a number of the couple's possessions also vanished from the farm and were never traced.
For almost 21 years, the case went nowhere. Investigators were unable to point to a perpetrator, and the killings remained unsolved. More recently, Swedish police succeeded in linking a man in his mid-forties to the case using genetic genealogy — the technique of combining DNA evidence with family-tree research — and the breakthrough led to an arrest in the long-running investigation.
In the episode, Larsen and Fahnøe dig into the Brattås case and walk through how modern DNA forensics and genetic genealogy were eventually able to bring clarity to an investigation that had lain dormant for decades.
The episode is number 213 in the podcast's catalogue and runs for 21 minutes. It can be heard alongside the rest of the show's episodes on the platforms where the podcast is available.
