Kriminalarkivet med Pops och Lampers

The crime journalist Lasse Lampers shows both well-known and never-before-seen clips and talks about the images with the presenter André Pops. In this first season, the theme is German terrorism and we are thrown back to the dramatic events when the West German embassy was occupied in April 1975. Two years later, a group planned to kidnap Prime Minister Anna-Greta Leijon. Did the terrorists really think they would succeed in their attacks? And how did the TV journalists work during the events?

It is the most famous and controversial bank robbery in Swedish criminal history, the almost six-day-long Norrmalmstorg drama in August 1973. The robber Janne Olsson took four people hostage and demanded that the country's most notorious criminal, Clark Olofsson, be released. Day by day, sometimes minute by minute, André Pops and Lasse Lampers go through the events. In Kriminalarkivet: Norrmalmstorgsdramat, we get to see lots of images from the TV archive, many of which have never been shown before. As usual, reality surpasses poetry!

In November 1996, 16-year-old Malin Lindström disappeared without a trace. It was not until six months later that her body was found and it was clear that she had been the victim of a sexual murder. An 18-year-old man was long the main suspect, but the murder has remained unsolved. A completely improbable chain of events in recent years has led to HD granting a settlement and the case is now being re-examined. André Pops and Lasse Lampers go through the fall during the past 26 years. With the support of abundant archive material, we follow the police investigation from Malin's disappearance until today. We also get to take part in the fight for closure and justice that Malin's parents fought throughout the year.

In 1988, three people, all belonging to the same family, were found brutally murdered in Åmsele in Västerbotten. The murders seem at first completely inexplicable, but soon the police find clues to both the motive and the suspect, both equally strange and terrifying. André Pops and Lasse Lampers follow the intensive hunt for the murderers.

The murder of Anna Lindh twenty years ago shocked the whole of Sweden, which was forced to experience the second murder of a minister in 17 years. In the fifth edition of the Kriminalarkivet, André Pops and Lasse Lampers go back to the dramatic days of September 2003.

The expression "Ståplats i Nybroviken" has its origins in a well-known triple murder from the 1960s, the so-called "Träskmorden". At that time, a lot is changing in Sweden, drugs are taking hold and crime is becoming increasingly brutal. The perpetrator Hans "Tuppen" Marmbo's name sells loose numbers and scares readers. If you want to look for the roots of what is happening today, you can go to this era when organized crime began to establish itself in the Swedish public home.

AB Svenska Brott, Mr X, mafia murder and motorbike war - In a mini-series with some examples from the last 70 years, André Pops and Lasse Lampers give us a picture of the rise of organized crime in Sweden. We delve deeper into how the gangs resolved their internal conflicts then compared to today.

The cold-blooded police murders in Malexander created a great atmosphere and caused deep wounds both within the police force and in the Swedish public. Wounds that are still not completely healed. Step by step, the Criminal Archives' Lasse Lampers and André Pops go through the events of the Malexander murder. It is one of Sweden's most attention-grabbing crimes and it changed both the regulations of the correctional service and the working methods of the police.

The murder of ten-year-old Engla Höglund shocked and disgusted the Swedish people. The outrage did not diminish when it eventually emerged that the murder, with sharper police work, could have been avoided. The criminal archive's André Pops and Lasse Lampers go thorough and initiated through the "murder of Engla". We also get to meet Engla's mother, Carina, in a new interview conducted after she met her daughter's murderer again in the district court, in connection with his application for a fixed-term sentence.

The series depicts several dramatic legal cases from the war years, such as the brutal murder of ten-year-old Gerd Johansson in Stockholm in 1939. We also learn more about the work of the police and the changes in the legal system during this period, as well as war-related crimes such as smuggling and forgery.

It was on the evening of June 7, 2015, that 17-year-old Lisa Holm disappeared from her job at a café in the idyllic Blomberg, located at Kinnekulle. When it was decided to issue a public search two days later, scores of volunteers flocked to participate in the search. At the same time, the police became increasingly convinced that Lisa had been the victim of a serious crime.

February 28, 2026 marks 40 years since Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot dead by an unknown assailant after a visit to the cinema in central Stockholm. In eight episodes, André Pops and Lasse Lampers go through what happened on Sveavägen and several of the possible (and impossible) theories that exist about who or what is behind the murder. With the support of film material from SVT's archives, stills, old and new documents, tape recordings and newly made interviews, including with Joakim Palme, we remember the dramatic events while gaining new insights into the criminal investigation.

People with dark hair or dark skin were randomly selected as victims when Lasermannen, John Ausonius, in the early 1990s shot and killed a person and injured another ten in Stockholm and Uppsala. After one of the largest police manhunts in the country, he was arrested in 1992 and was eventually sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, attempted murder, and a long series of bank robberies. In four episodes, Lasse Lampers and André Pops tell the dramatic story.