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Who killed Sweden's prime minister? 1986 assassination of Olof Palme is finally solved – maybe

  • Written by Andrew Nestingen, Professor, Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington
imageThe murder weapon in the Palme case was never found.zbruch via Getty Images

It took 34 years, 10,000 interviews and 134 murder confessions, but the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme has now been solved.

Palme was shot on the Stockholm street Sveavägen – roughly, “Mother Sweden Way” – in February 1986,...

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