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Only problem is, all the other possible suspects are even less likely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Olof_Palme#Murder_theories https://en.wik

Only problem is, all the other possible suspects are even less likely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Olof_Palme#Murder_theories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Olof_Palme#Mu... It's a Sherlock Holmes case: "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

zosima 6y ago
Christer Andersson, the man identified as GH in the wikipedia article is imho just as likely, if not more so, compared to the Skandiaman. 1. He lived in the vicinity of the murder scene 2. He fits the description given by many witnesses extremly well. 3. He owned a revolver of the same type as the murder weapon 4. He claimed to have sold the revolver to some unknown person when asked. 5. He had just been bankrupted, due to a change in tax policy, implemented by Olof Palme's government 6. The police had been called to his home some time before the murder, because someone had heard a gunshot. He claimed then to have accidentally shot at Olof Palme on television. 7. He committed suicide in 2004 when police was knocking on his door. 8. He claimed to have an alibi the evening of the murder, but his alibi did not check out. There is no smoking gun, but he is definitely just as likely a culprit as the man currently pointed out.
sparky_z 6y ago
It's not a Sherlock Holmes case at all. That principal only applies to locked-room style mysteries, with a provably tiny pool of possible suspects that can be eliminated one by one. I.e., fictional situations. In this case, the set of "other possible suspects" includes literally everybody in the world who loosely fits the description of the killer and can't prove they were elsewhere that day.
patrik1900 6y ago
The police hasn't investigated "all other possibilities". Far from it. It only takes ONE person who is unknown to render the Sherlock Holmes logic to fall apart. It's unfortunately more suited to fiction, than to actual real life.

zosima 6y ago

Christer Andersson, the man identified as GH in the wikipedia article is imho just as likely, if not more so, compared to the Skandiaman. 1. He lived in the vicinity of the murder scene 2. He fits the description given by many witnesses extremly well. 3. He owned a revolver of the same type as the murder weapon 4. He claimed to have sold the revolver to some unknown person when asked. 5. He had just been bankrupted, due to a change in tax policy, implemented by Olof Palme's government 6. The police had been called to his home some time before the murder, because someone had heard a gunshot. He claimed then to have accidentally shot at Olof Palme on television. 7. He committed suicide in 2004 when police was knocking on his door. 8. He claimed to have an alibi the evening of the murder, but his alibi did not check out. There is no smoking gun, but he is definitely just as likely a culprit as the man currently pointed out.

sparky_z 6y ago

It's not a Sherlock Holmes case at all. That principal only applies to locked-room style mysteries, with a provably tiny pool of possible suspects that can be eliminated one by one. I.e., fictional situations. In this case, the set of "other possible suspects" includes literally everybody in the world who loosely fits the description of the killer and can't prove they were elsewhere that day.

patrik1900 6y ago

The police hasn't investigated "all other possibilities". Far from it. It only takes ONE person who is unknown to render the Sherlock Holmes logic to fall apart. It's unfortunately more suited to fiction, than to actual real life.