The Assassination of Olof Palme

Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot and killed on a Stockholm street on February 28, 1986, while walking home from a cinema with his wife, who was also wounded. The assassination shocked Sweden and set off one of the largest criminal investigations in Scandinavian history. Christer Pettersson was convicted of the murder in 1988 but was acquitted on appeal in 1989. In June 2020, Swedish prosecutors announced they believed Stig Engström — a graphic designer known as "the Skandia Man" — was the killer, but closed the case without prosecution as Engström had died in 2000.