Her headphones were found some distance from the station.
Wonder what she was listening to?
Perhaps it was in the middle of a favorite song that her life ended brutally.
This is a chronicle. Analysis and positions are the writer’s.
The memorial site in Rönninge.
Photo: Lisa Mattisson
Then it was right at the beginning of summer. Kinnekulle in Västergötland when it is at its most beautiful in my old home areas.
Lisa Holm had just finished work at the café in Blomberg and was going to jump on the mop and go home. But Lisa never came home that night.
Her father went out to search, but without success, and then alerted the police.
Suddenly I remember it like it was yesterday, that feeling of unease when the search for both 17-year-old Lisa and the perpetrator was going on in the area.
Some finds were made, including a broken mobile phone case.
After five days, Lisa was found murdered and the perpetrator, Nerijus Bilevicius, was arrested.
The station in Rönninge where the 25-year-old woman was last seen alive.
Photo: Lisa Mattisson
Now, ten years later, It happened in the middle of Christmas. The time when we should have the coziest and most peaceful time.
The 25-year-old girl had celebrated Christmas with her family, but on Christmas day it was time to meet her friends.
Out in the country it is called “homecoming day”, I don’t know if it has a real name in Stockholm. But the concept is the same, when the traditional Christmas celebration with the family is over – go out and have fun with friends.
And so did the 25-year-old girl from Rönninge.
But she never came home either.
On Boxing Day, the family searched and called for their daughter and sister, then they alerted the police.
A girl on her way home, on streets she knew well, in the middle of Christmas time
Today, two and a half days later, came the nightmarish news. The girl from Rönninge had been found dead in connection with the arrest of a suspected perpetrator.
During a press conference on Sunday morning, police commander Max Åkerwall told, among other things, that some findings had led to the arrest.
Police Åkerwall was matter-of-fact, explaining time and time again that there are details he cannot yet go into.
At the same time, he looked somewhat distressed, which is completely human. Because it is impossible to take in how a young girl’s life can suddenly end in the most horrible way.
It doesn’t matter that you are a police officer.
This was an ordinary girl on her way home, on streets she knew well, in the middle of Christmas time.
Police Chief of Staff Max Åkerwall in connection with Sunday’s press conference.
Photo: Lisa Mattisson
To understand it the pain, anger, despair and grief that the girl’s family and friends are now going through is impossible.
And even though it’s been ten years since Lisa Holm was murdered, I’m pretty sure that the scars of her loved ones are reminded if not every day, then almost.
This Christmas, a 25-year-old girl from Rönninge was murdered, a family received the most horrific news you can receive. Friends are distraught, heartbroken.
Life had just begun.
One of those findings that led to the arrest of the suspected perpetrator last night was the girl’s headphones. They were found a short distance from the station in Rönninge where she was seen alive for the last time.
Maybe she was in the middle of a favorite song when the nightmare came true and life ended.
The police block off during the operation in the Rönninge area.
Photo: Lisa Mattisson
