Nordic Campsite Killings 3: The Tent Murders at Lake Appojaure - Revisited

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History, True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In July 1984, beneath Sweden’s midnight sun, a remote campsite near Lake Appojaure became the scene of a brutal double murder. Dutch tourists Marinus and Janny Stegehuis were stabbed to death as they slept in their tent, an attack that shocked the nation and remains unresolved.
This episode marks a milestone for The Evidence Locker: released in celebration of our 250th episode, it is also a remastered re-release of our very first case. We revisit the Appojaure tent killings, the failed investigation, and the later false confession by Thomas Quick, whose story collapsed under forensic scrutiny.
Decades on, the truth remains buried in the wilderness, and the real killer has never been identified.

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0:00.0	So you like suspense?
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0:03.0	In this voodoo ceremony, they ask the spirits for unity and healing.
0:07.0	My name is Kemi, a tour leader would explore,
0:10.0	and I love showing my small group the Ria Benin in West Africa.
0:14.0	Walking the sacred peaks, flow through a village built on stilts. The craft, the food, the fire.
0:22.6	The Benin life you only experience when you explore.
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0:27.1	And don't just travel, explore.
0:30.4	It was after 9 p.m. on Friday night, the 13th of July 1984.
0:35.0	A family of three from Gothenburg were traveling in the scenic Lapland
0:38.0	mountains in the north of Sweden. In the Arctic Circle, July is a time for the midnight
0:42.6	sun, which means that the sun does not set at all. It is bright and light for 24 hours a day.
0:48.7	At this time it was late summer and it had been raining for a couple of days. When they drove
0:53.2	down a side road off the Porius Road to take in the scenery of Lake Apiora,
0:57.3	they could never have imagined what awaited them.
1:00.0	A grisly discovery was about to change their holiday into a nightmare.
1:04.6	50 meters from the main road, they saw a Toyota Carino with four number plates at a campsite.
1:09.7	There was a collapsed tent with something
1:11.1	bulging underneath the canvas. They thought someone, perhaps a poacher, had hidden a dead
1:16.4	reindeer inside the tent and simply left. But when they saw a lifeless human hands ticking out
1:21.3	from under the tent, they realized that something horrible must have taken place at this peaceful
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