1. John Ausonius first used a rifle equipped with a laser sight, and later switched to a revolver.
24 Facts About John Ausonius
1. 2.
John Ausonius was arrested in June 1992 and sentenced to life imprisonment in January 1994.
3.
John Ausonius is the son of a Swiss father and a German mother, both of whom had emigrated to Sweden.
4.
John Ausonius grew up in Vallingby, a working-class suburb of Stockholm.
5.
John Ausonius went to the German School in Stockholm, an international school, but dropped out before graduating.
6.
John Ausonius later completed his secondary school education in an adult education programme.
7.
John Ausonius was accepted into the Royal Institute of Technology, but dropped out after a couple of years of unsuccessful study.
Related searches
Olof Palme 8.
In 1986, following the Olof Palme assassination, Ausonius, then named John Stannerman, was one of the police's initial suspects.
9.
John Ausonius developed a hatred for Communists, Social Democrats, and immigrants while craving an ambition of gaining wealth.
10.
John Ausonius worked a low-paying job as a taxi driver, but later started trading in stocks and bonds.
11.
John Ausonius performed more than eighteen robberies, largely in an identical fashion.
12.
John Ausonius had a strong hatred for immigrants and foreigners.
13.
John Ausonius hoped that this way, he would scare all immigrants out of Sweden.
14.
Between 1981 and 1982 John Ausonius served in the Swedish army and thus learnt how to use weapons.
15.
John Ausonius took a trip to the United States between the first and second waves of shooting.
16.
John Ausonius visited Las Vegas to gamble and journeyed to the Grand Canyon.
17.
John Ausonius later assaulted his own lawyer in court and spent the rest of his trial in handcuffs.
18.
John Ausonius was convicted of murder and robbery, but could not be linked to all of the shootings.
19.
John Ausonius was sentenced to life imprisonment and was later incarcerated at Kumla Prison.
20.
John Ausonius has applied to have his life sentence commuted to an arranged term on three occasions, in 2008,2010 and 2012.
21.
In 2016 John Ausonius was extradited to Germany to face trial for the 23 February 1992 murder in Frankfurt of Blanka Zmigrod, a 68-year-old Holocaust survivor.
22.
John Ausonius did not oppose being extradited under the condition that any sentence received would be served in Sweden.
23.
In January 2019, John Ausonius was extradited back to Sweden to serve his sentences.
24.
In late April 2006, the daily Aftonbladet revealed that John Ausonius had become engaged to an anonymous 23-year-old woman, who had fallen in love with him after having seen a recent television miniseries.