Take advantage of the weekend to catch up on this exciting series, it will take you less than 4 hours

If you’re a fan of crime thrillers, you’ll love this new Swedish mini-series which is a hit on Netflix at the moment. Inspired by a true story, it is already third in the top in France.

To relax after a long week of work and when the sky looks gray and the weather cool, nothing better than a mini-series. This weekend, why not grab a blanket and a hot chocolate to watch a thrilling new Swedish release in just 4 episodes? It will take you less than 4 hours to see it! For a few days, Crime at the root a hit on Netflix. The series is third in the top world and top France, just after the immense Squid Game et I miss you. We discover an unsolved detective story. In 2004, a double homicide shook the city of Linköping. A fifty-year-old woman and an 8-year-old boy lost their lives in tragic circumstances. But the police are unable to find the author of these atrocious crimes. Until Swedish law evolved and other protagonists, notably a genealogist, looked into the matter 16 years later.

In Crime at the rootwe look at scientific techniques for solving investigations

In four episodes, Crime at the root allows us to discover an often overlooked part of investigative work: scientific evidence. To reopen the cold case and finally find the person responsible for the murders, investigators rely on DNA. Since 2019, Sweden has allowed family DNA matches to resolve investigations, including through commercial genealogy sites. This kinship DNA makes it possible to solve forgotten cases all over the world. In Sweden, the history of Linköping is particularly emblematic.

Crime at the root is inspired by a real Swedish cold case

The story unfolded by Crime at the root is inspired by a real police and judicial case that shook the country. In October 2004, Anna-Lena Svensson was stabbed to death in Linköping. Mohammed Ammouri, an 8-year-old boy, suffered the same fate. When in 2019, the search for parental DNA was authorized by law, the police did not waste a minute. The genetic traces of the killer left on the knife and on a bloody cap, which until then did not correspond to anything in the police databases, were thus able to be linked to those of a member of the killer’s family. The culprit is Daniel Nyqvist. He was arrested in June 2020 and declared not responsible due to psychiatric disorders. He is now interned.

Article written in collaboration with 6Médias.