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Dec 2024
59m 24s

FROM THE VAULT - Episode 275 - The Assas...

Wondery | RedHanded
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In February 1986, the prime minister of Sweden was walking home from the cinema, when a man stepped out of a shop doorway and shot him in the neck with a .357 Magnum. The killer ran down a side street – and disappeared without a trace. The mystery surrounding Olof Palme’s death is a Swedish national obsession that's barely left the headlines in the decades ... Show More
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