THE STOCKHOLM VAMPIRE MURDER [TRUE CRIME/UNSOLVED]

The Vampire Murder or Atlas Murder was an unsolved Swedish murder committed in the 1930s.

On May 4, 1932, the 31-year-old prostitute Lilly Lindeström was found brutally murdered in her one-room apartment at Sankt Eriksplan 11 in the Atlas area of ​​Stockholm.

Four days earlier, on Walpurgis Eve, she had been visited by her friend Mimmi and around half past six in the evening her phone rang. A strange male voice asked if she was Lilly Lindeström. The man wanted to come up and he said he was nearby. Lilly agreed to the meeting and Mimmi went down to her place on the ground floor. Shortly after seven, Lilly came down to her friend and wanted to borrow a condom. A while later, she came down again and wanted to borrow another condom. Mimmi saw that Lilly was completely naked under her coat. It was the last time Mimmi saw Lilly in her life.

Samples and an apartment plan from the 1932 vampire murder,

exhibited at the Police Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.

At nine o'clock, Mimmi rang Lilly's doorbell to ask if she was going to Djurgården. But no one answered. Mimmi assumed that her friend had gone with a customer instead. Mimmi tried to get hold of Lilly, but she was still not home, and on May 4, Mimmi was so worried about her friend that she went to the police. The police entered Lilly's apartment and found her lying dead face down on an ottoman. The entire apartment was meticulously cleaned. Lilly's clothes were also neatly folded on a chair. The sofa cushions were neatly piled on top of the dead body and the bedspread was neatly placed underneath. Lilly's head had been crushed by three hard blows.

The police never came close to solving the murder. No clue was found to who the murderer was. Fingerprints were found from people, but it was not possible to identify whether any of these came from the murderer and it was not possible to identify anyone in the address book as the murderer.

After another 18 years, when a crime reporter for the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet sought out the then retired crime scene investigator John Berg for a series of articles about unsolved crimes, Berg pulled out a cardboard box. In the box was a kitchen towel with reddish-brown stains and the dented soup ladle with similar stains on the bottom. The crime was statute-barred in 1957.