True Crime Sweden

True Crime Sweden takes murder cases from Sweden and narrates them in English, with Pernilla as host. The episodes here cover a wide span: one case dates to 1900, another to 2004. The older one unfolds aboard the steamer Prince Karl on Lake Mälaren, during the night between May 16th and 17th. A 25-year-old named Filip Nordlund set out to commit a robbery, and by the time it was over five people were dead and eight wounded. His take, Pernilla notes, came to roughly 1,700 US dollars in today's money. At one point she hands the story to a witness. Navigation officer Emil Jolin describes, in the first person, being shot in the arm on the stairs and rushing back into the saloon to warn the passengers. It reads closer to testimony than to summary. The Linköping case works differently. On October 19th, 2004, an eight-year-old boy walking to school and a 56-year-old woman heading to work, who had never met, became the two victims of the same crime. Here the narration follows the investigation: police questioning residents of the buildings facing the scene, witnesses who agreed on some details and differed on others, and a butterfly knife recovered from a nearby bush. After a local newspaper printed the description, a store owner called police about a black knitted hat left in a newspaper box outside. The case moves forward on small, concrete leads like that one. Pernilla's delivery is direct. She sets a scene, names the case as 'the story of' what happened, welcomes listeners, and gets on with it. The steamboat episode opens with a listener-discretion warning, and it ends by asking listeners to send a thought to the victims' families. Episodes close with an invitation to suggest cases by social media or email, and with the same farewell, 'Hej då'. The show's music is produced for it by Nico of wetalkofdreams.com. There is also an announcement episode in which Pernilla explains an absence of almost a year. She describes working full-time, spending her evenings on the podcast, and reaching a point where it all became too much, with fatigue, dizziness and forgetfulness, and she mentions getting professional help. Even listening in English, which she says she loves, stopped working for her during that time. She says she shares the story in case it helps someone else slow down sooner. What the show offers is Swedish cases in careful English narration, grounded in dates, names and the families left behind.