Thomas Quick (born Sture Ragnar Bergwall, 26 April 1950 in Korsnäs, Falun, Sweden) is a controversial person who has confessed to more than 30 murders, although he has only eight convictions. With no technical evidence, the only evidence police have held on Quick is his own confessions, and elements in these confessions that have been judged to match classified facts from the police dossiers on the crimes in question (e.g. clothing and birthmarks...
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Thomas Quick (born Sture Ragnar Bergwall, 26 April 1950 in Korsnäs, Falun, Sweden) is a controversial person who has confessed to more than 30 murders, although he has only eight convictions. With no technical evidence, the only evidence police have held on Quick is his own confessions, and elements in these confessions that have been judged to match classified facts from the police dossiers on the crimes in question (e.g. clothing and birthmarks of victims). In December 2008 Quick recanted his confessions, and denied taking part in any of the murders for which he was convicted. Quick has now changed his name back to Sture Bergwall.
In 1990-1991 Quick was sentenced to lengthy prison terms for armed robbery, and consigned to closed psychiatric care. During therapy he confessed to some 20 murders committed in Sweden and Norway between 1964 and 1990. Two of the confessions led to the solving of an 18 year old murder considered to be unsolvable and a murder in Växjö in 1964. The 1964...
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