The woman could be linked to the twenty-year-old murder in Stuvkällaren in Gothenburg.
But was never brought to justice.
Since then, she has worked with vulnerable young people in HVB homes and in home care.
Now the woman is charged with five thefts totaling SEK 450,000 from elderly people.
It was in February 2023 that the police were able to end the then nearly two-decade-long killer hunt for the person who stabbed shop assistant Marie Johansson to death at her workplace Stuvkällaren in central Gothenburg.
By sheer coincidence, an attempt to steal goods from the Ikea cash register in Bäckebol on Hisingen led to the death of a woman – and her DNA was found in the murder case from 2005.
But as the woman had not turned 18 at the time of the murder, she could never be tried due to the statute of limitations.
Now the woman is relevant to the police again. Since last summer, she has been in custody on suspicion of gross theft from elderly people whom she met in her work in home care.
Worked as a treatment assistant
Today she is charged with five counts of aggravated theft. According to the prosecutor, it concerns jewelery and other valuables worth just over SEK 450,000.
– The users have found themselves in a vulnerable situation and have been robbed in their homes where they have the right to feel safe. This means that I consider the woman’s actions to be particularly reckless, says senior prosecutor Maria Thorell, who leads the preliminary investigation.
Expressen has previously been able to tell how the designated woman changed her life, towards working as a social educator.
According to an educational certificate, she has a social education education and has worked as a treatment assistant at several HVB homes – both before, during and after the education.
In January of last year, Expressen was able to reveal how the woman, with three children of her own taken into care after reports of violence, drug seizures and criminal connections, got work at a HVB home for forcibly taken care of young people with a background in addiction and crime.
– This sounds completely insane, said the owner of the HVB home who had no idea about the employee’s background.
The woman had to end her service and has applied to the home service where the crimes in question are said to have been committed.
Denies crime
Woman herself denies having stolen such large values, but admits to four thefts.
According to the prosecutor in the old murder at Stuvkällaren, there was no room for an alternative killer.
The woman’s DNA and fingerprints were found in a number of places in the fabric store where Marie Johansson was stabbed to death – probably with the store’s own fabric scissors.
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The motive is believed to have been money.
The woman, who at the time of the murder was 17 years old and pregnant, was taken into the care of the authorities for other reasons and she was cared for while the intensive hunt for the killer continued, in which more than 650 women were finally DNA tested.
– After reviewing the investigation, I can state that there is nothing to support that there are other perpetrators involved in the incident in addition to the woman who left DNA traces and fingerprints at the crime scene, Ulrika Åberg said when, despite the evidence, she had to drop the preliminary investigation.
The woman has spoken out about the murder in her contacts with social services, who were informed about the murder suspicions by the police. She has stated to social services that she was in a daze at the time of the murder, that she was drugged at the time by a relative and that “it has meant that she does not remember what she has done and why she has done it”.
She has also stated in her contacts with the authorities after the disclosure last year that she thought a lot about the incident but without having any direct feelings of guilt.
