The Policeman Who Investigated Hi...
The Policeman Who Investigated His Own Murder | Sweden, 1952
UNTRANSLATED - Cases the world never heard by Daniel Dreher
S1 · E1
Jul 31, 2026
14:00
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In November 1951, the man who owned the mill in a small Swedish village was killed and his house set on fire. The local police officer who arrived to investigate was patient, helpful, and full of theories. He answered questions from the national press. When the case stalled, he brought in a psychic to help find the killer.

He was the killer.

Nine months later, Tore Hedin killed nine more people in a single night — his own parents among them — and then drove to a lake and drowned himself, leaving behind a full written confession. In it he wrote that the greatest regret of his life was that he had never become a detec ... 

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true crime
sweden
scandinavia
1950s
cold case
unsolved murder
police
nordic
history
international true crime
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