Would you protect the people sent to harm you? Most have heard of Stockholm Syndrome. It’s a phrase bandied around and has even been used as song titles, but what is it, and where did it begin? Snipers and police via Nobis Hotel On the 23rd of August 1973, Jan-Erik Olsson fired a submachine gun at the ceiling of Sveriges Kreditbanken and announced, “The party has just begun!” A bank employee triggered a silent alarm, and a policeman responded, but Jan shot him in the hand, a

Viking Sally has more history than some empires. The cruise ship was built in 1979 for Rederi AB Slite, a Swedish shipping company. The vessel had ten decks and was designed with all the modern conveniences, including a swimming pool, sauna, nightclub, cinema and numerous restaurants and bars. Over a period of eight years, the vessel saw 855 deaths with its final demise in 1994, when it sank at full capacity. Two of those fatalities were murders, and one was solved in 2020, a

Engla Höglund’s murderer had killed before, but a bungled police investigation let him kill again. Crime in Scandinavian countries has always been much lower than many due to laidback culture and population sizes. Dubbed the world’s 13th most peaceful nation, Sweden’s murder and manslaughter averages were just 96 cases per year and haven’t changed in over a decade. Unfortunately, at least one of these cases could have been prevented, and a little girl would have grown up inst