The Hunt for a Killer
2020
📺 1 Season
🎬 6 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 SV
⏱️ 45 min/episode
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Based on true stories about real homicide investigations in the south of Sweden between 1989-2004. A reality-based crime drama about the policeman Per-Åke Åkesson and the reconnaissance group that was tasked with investigating several murders of women in northeastern Skåne. The series starts in Hörby in 1989.
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Season 1
10-year-old Helén Nilsson disappears on Easter 1989 in the small community of Hörby. It's a chilly evening and Helén will meet two classmates at the discount store a few minutes' walk from home, but the young friends never meet. Six days after the disappearance, Helén's wounded body is found, raped and strangled. Detective Commissioner Pelle Åkesson wants to work with the investigation but is abruptly rejected by her boss. When Helen's mother shows up at the police station and asks Pelle to take on the case, he promises to find Helen's killer.
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Mikael Marcimain
Network
SVT Play
Production
Yellow Bird
Keywords
detectivebased on novel or bookchild murdereastern europescandinaviapolicebased on true storytrue crimemurder investigationsex crime