1. Tore Hedin was a Swedish mass murderer and police officer.
11 Facts About Tore Hedin
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Tore Hedin employed a medium, itself unique for a Swedish homicide investigation.
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Tore Hedin was born in Stora Harrie, Scania, near Kavlinge.
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Tore Hedin committed his first crime in September 1943, when he broke into a local brewery near his parental home to steal some oats.
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On 28 November 1951, Tore Hedin robbed and murdered his friend John Allan Nilsson after a poker game at Nilsson's home in Tjornarp.
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Infuriated, Tore Hedin assaulted her with handcuffs and threatened to shoot her.
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Tore Hedin was dismissed from the police force for this incident.
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Tore Hedin's first stop was his parents' house in Saxtorp, where he killed them both and set the house on fire sometime before midnight.
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Thirty minutes later, Tore Hedin arrived at the retirement home in Hurva, where Ostberg lived and worked.
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Tore Hedin climbed a fire escape and entered the room where Ostberg usually slept.
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Tore Hedin's corpse was transported to the Institution of Anatomy at Lund University.