Episode 275 - The Assassination of Olof Palme

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True Crime

4.5 • 18.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In February 1986, the prime minister of Sweden was walking home from the cinema, when a man stepped out of a shop doorway and shot him in the neck with a .357 Magnum. The killer ran down a side street – and disappeared without a trace.

The mystery surrounding Olof Palme’s death is a Swedish national obsession that's barely left the headlines in the decades since. Hundreds of theories, from international hitmen to lone gunmen and police conspiracies, have swirled around one of the most extensive murder investigations in history.

And then, in 2020, investigators called a press conference – to announce that they had finally found the killer…

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0:00.0	Prime members, you can listen to Redhanded early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today.
0:15.1	I'm Hannah. I'm Sruti. And welcome in Swedish to Redhanded, which is probably...
0:23.2	I think Swedish and German are quite similar, I think it was like I did some late night walking around Stockholm
0:29.2	when we were there. And I think it was like, welcome in. Also, I'm like that. I think you're probably right.
0:35.6	Hey, hey, that's what they say. Yes, and all the scandice. Hey, hey.
0:39.5	But yeah, we thought we would do a Swedish case because we recently did obviously our European tour.
0:44.0	We had an amazing time when we went to Finland, Sweden and Norway and we thought, let's do this one
0:50.1	because it is like big news in Sweden. Everyone's obsessed with this. Yeah, like big,
0:57.9	continuous, conspiracy news. So we're going to appease the ghosts that haunted us in Stockholm
1:03.2	and offer them this story. And hopefully they'll stop following me home at night. Very
1:08.0	clandestine information there. If you have listened to our under the duvet where we talked,
1:12.0	I can't remember if we talked about it on the main show or not, but basically the theatre that we did
1:15.8	our Stockholm show in was so incredibly haunted. That we're doing this as a sacrificial episode.
1:23.9	So Stockholm and Sweden is not only full of ghosts, but winter nights can get bitterly cold
1:29.8	and darkness descends. But up to 18 hours a day, that's a lot. That's a lot of time. I would not
1:38.6	cope. Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't survive, I don't think. I think I mean, one of the many times I've
1:43.1	completely lost my marbles, but I think probably it was probably the book, we're probably doing the book
1:47.6	and I just completely went bonkers. And I'm just going to move to Norway and herd reindeer.
1:52.1	I'm just going to, that's the answer to this problem. And then my best friend who was Swedish was
1:56.6	like, you know, it's dark all the time. That's a terrible idea. You hate that. Anyway, 18 hours of
2:04.5	day can be dark in wintertime, Sweden land, but on the 28th of February 1986, that chill was easing up.
2:13.6	So the 59-year-old Prime Minister of Sweden, Olaf Palmer, decided to walk home unascorted from
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