Diver accidentally finds murder victim

[Storker]

I couldn't find out where to post this, so mods: If I'm in the wrong place, feel free to move the thread to the appropriate sub-forum.

Anyway, a Swedish freediver found a "package containing a dismembered body" at 14 meters' depth a couple of weeks ago outside Strömstad on the Swedish West coast. Recently, it was determined that the victim was a man who had killed his wife just a few years ago. :shocked2:

I'm having two reactions to this story:

1. Yuck. Finding something like that while diving would have given me some serious nightmares and possibly turned me of diving.
2. Sometimes reality is just as wild as fiction. I thought this was crime series stuff, not real life stuff. At least here in peaceful Scandinavia...

 

[lv2dive]

Wow that is a crazy story. When I read that the victim was a man who killed his wife, at first I was a bit confused, then I realized he was a convicted murderer on whom the tables had been turned. Strange!

I couldn't find out where to post this, so mods: If I'm in the wrong place, feel free to move the thread to the appropriate sub-forum.

Anyway, a Swedish freediver found a "package containing a dismembered body" at 14 meters' depth a couple of weeks ago outside Strömstad on the Swedish West coast. Recently, it was determined that the victim was a man who had killed his wife just a few years ago. :shocked2:

I'm having two reactions to this story:

1. Yuck. Finding something like that while diving would have given me some serious nightmares and possibly turned me of diving.
2. Sometimes reality is just as wild as fiction. I thought this was crime series stuff, not real life stuff. At least here in peaceful Scandinavia...

 

[Tom Winters]

So the guy was sentenced in 2007 for killing his wife in what in the US would be considered 1st degree, premeditated murder and had been out for a couple of years. Hey, those Swedes are some compassionate people. Pretty cool the way he got Dextered.

 

[Croomrider]

So the guy was sentenced in 2007 for killing his wife in what in the US would be considered 1st degree, premeditated murder and had been out for a couple of years. Hey, those Swedes are some compassionate people. Pretty cool the way he got Dextered.

It sounds like not everybody agreed with the lenient sentence!

 

[jezellw]

In other words, things turned out OK. He got his just deserts.

 

[dmoore19]

There should be a movie out soon. In Swedish with english subtitles.

 

[Storker]

There should be a movie out soon. In Swedish with english subtitles.

Or first a Swedish one, then a Hollywood remake with US actors, tons more action and a few car chases and explosions that never were in the original. Isn't that what's needed to get you 'murricans to watch European movies?

 

[ScubaSteve]

Or first a Swedish one, then a Hollywood remake with US actors, tons more action and a few car chases and explosions that never were in the original. Isn't that what's needed to get you 'murricans to watch European movies?

Maybe they will work this story into the most anticipated sequel of the current age.....

Sharknado II - When Sharks Attack Murder Victim Finders

 

[3D diver]

Someone call Kurt Wallander...

 

[Crass3000]

Although this is a little different, a local dive shop leads efforts to find bodies using sonar that others have had a hard time finding. A week or so ago they were training in a lake and found two cars that were lost long ago (maybe 20 years). Both cars had the remains of three bodies in them. This was just a training exercise so they had no intention of finding remains.