Woman Found Dead by the Lake Shore

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The Kafkaesque story of the brutal killing of a woman who was found dead by the side of a lake in Sweden. Agneta Westerlund had moved some years before to a small village from Stockholm along with her husband Ingemar. The couple had first met as teenagers and had been together for 40 years. Her body had suffered a series of bizarre and horrific injuries: one wound on the side of her back was the size of a wheel. Police arrested Ingemar and accused him of murdering his wife by running over her with a lawnmower and then dumping her body by the lake. So did he really kill Agneta?

Open Ear features documentaries from producers across the world being rebroadcast by the BBC World Service. This episode first aired on Sveriges Radio in Swedish.

(Photo: Lake shore in Sweden. Credit: Olivier Morin/AFP/Getty Images)

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0:00.0	A placid lake, gentle jazz and a corpse. I'm Hugh Levenson and I'm head of the BBC
0:10.5	department which makes programs like assignment and global business.
0:14.0	But over the next few weeks I'll be introducing some fabulous documentaries from across the world,
0:19.0	all from outside the BBC. We're calling it Open ear. And we're starting with a tale from
0:25.0	Sweden, one that I think demonstrates the power of great storytelling. It's by
0:29.7	Hugo Leavette of Swedish radio, S.R. and here's Woman Found Dead by the Lakeshore.
0:37.0	I'm going to be able to This is probably the first letter I wrote while I was in custody in Vyestevik.
0:50.0	My beloved children, our dear beloved mum.
0:55.0	This is a completely unreal and absurd situation,
0:59.0	but we have to go on
1:01.0	and we must help each other to find fulfillment in life. My greatest
1:05.7	fear is that the police believe that they have found the culprit and won't set
1:09.5	about finding the monster the person that did this.
1:13.0	Then we would have to face a long drawn-out process the water northeast of Lofthahama.
1:30.0	We've arrested a man who is the dead woman's husband.
1:35.0	Interrogation at Vestevik police station September the 6th.
1:41.0	The reason for this interrogation, Igma, as you're already aware, is that you are, based on reasonable grounds,
1:48.0	suspected of committing murder on September the 5th, that is to say yesterday. This is going to be difficult in the beginning but we will pull through it together.
2:00.0	It's important that you get on with your lives and find fulfillment.
2:04.0	I will give you all the support I possibly can.
2:07.0	I don't know what they're writing in the newspapers.
2:10.0	Some of Mum's friends need to be contacted.
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