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Jun 2020
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“Hannibal Lecter of Sweden” Sture Bergwa...

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He claimed to be Sweden's first serial killer. Throughout the 1990s, Sture Bergwall made shocking confessions to dozens of brutal murders across Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland. But his final confession was the most surprising of them all.

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