More often than expected, reality goes beyond fiction, they are stories that surprise and fascinate. For some reason, human beings are particularly attracted to these stories involving serial killers capable of the greatest atrocities we can imagine. Thomas Quick became known as a cannibal killer, so he was nicknamed the Swede Hannibal Lecter. even more enigmatic and intriguing background than the crimes he confessed?
Thomas Quick’s story is divided into three parts: at first, his name was Sture Ragnar Bergwall, a man born in Sweden in 1950, into a deeply religious family with uncompromising values.
- Bergwall became the black sheep? Family.
- To begin with.
- He was homosexual.
- Which was absolutely unacceptable to his parents because he contrasted with his deeply religious values.
- They considered his sexual orientation not only a sin.
- But a crime.
- Man grew up suppressing his sexual inclinations.
As a teenager he began drinking alcohol and drugs, also began assaulting children and was charged in a sexual abuse case at age 19. He always wanted to be noticed, because somehow he felt invisible to his family.
When Sture Ragnar Bergwall was 41 in 1991, he entered a bank disguised as Santa Claus and tried to rob him; I was just carrying a knife, but I desperately needed money to buy drugs. The action was thwarted and he was arrested by the policeman, who took him to jail.
During the course of the investigation, the man involved his best friend at the time, who was also taken to prison, so all his knowledge turned his back on him and Bergwall was practically alone in the world, and voluntarily did. requested to be transferred to a psychiatric prison, a wish that was granted to him.
Why did you do it? Apparently he thought it would be easier to get psychoactive drugs similar to the ones he used before. At the psychiatric hospital, he contacted a group of professionals led by Margit Norell, a famous psychotherapist who studied the minds of criminals.
When Bergwall entered the psychiatric hospital, the second part of his story began to be written, at one point he began to talk about the crimes he had committed, which he apparently did not remember until he arrived at the hospital and began psychotherapy.
He said he committed his first murder when he was 14 and that his victim was a young man named Thomas Blomgren. He noted that he had since adopted the name Thomas, after those who raped and murdered him. He later began using the surname Quick, which was his mother’s, changing his name to Thomas Quick.
In all, he confessed to 38 murders. Many of them included rape, dismemberment, mutilation, and cannibalism. The psychiatrists were terrified and fascinated by the story of Thomas Quick, he was the perfect prototype for a serial killer and a great opportunity to continue his investigation.
When the press found out about the case, there were entire pages dedicated to Quick, nobody could believe that such a bad being had gone unnoticed for so many years, people were horrified and began to call him Hannibal Lecter from Sweden, in reference to the character in the film The silence of the lambs.
Thomas Quick continued to provide details of his crimes, police became involved in the case and the man cooperated by reporting the places where he had buried his victims, but police found nothing, even thought that in the midst of his obvious mental disorder, he was cheating on everyone.
During the trial that followed, Thomas Quick spoke of a girl killed in 1988, said he fractured his skull with a stone and showed the crime scene, when police went there, found a piece of bone, that is, there was evidence. For this crime and seven others, he was eventually convicted.
The third part of this story is the most interesting and the most surprising. It all started when journalists Hannes Rastam and Jenny Kosttim opened an investigation into this case. There were spare parts; Some pieces of the puzzle that didn’t seem to fit well with Quick’s stories. In addition, the parents of one of the victims rejected the version that Thomas Quick had killed his son because they had identified another suspect some time ago.
In other stories the same thing happened: there were gaps that were not filled and nothing seemed to make sense, journalists examined the case in detail and eventually concluded that there was not a single piece of evidence incriminating Quick. The human bone was nothing but a piece of wood and plastic.
Journalists visited Thomas Quick several times and, after prompting him, the man confessed that he had invented everything, deceived psychiatrists and the police because he got more attention, privileges and also more psychoactive. This case is one of the biggest legal errors in the Scandinavian country.
Anyway, this is a case that still arouses amazement and, of course, has been brought to the cinema. Even today we wonder how someone can think of committing these heinous crimes to take advantage of their allegations.