Episode 267 – The Unbelievable Saga of Thomas Quick

In the early 1990s, a patient at Säter mental institution was undergoing the facility’s revolutionary memory-recovery therapy, when he revealed a shocking incident from his past. Back in 1980, he had killed an 11-year-old boy.

As the therapy continued, more and more brutal confessions came, until he was linked to 39 of Sweden’s most infamous murders. He became known as the nation’s answer to Hannibal Lecter – a sadistic, cannibalistic serial-killer paedophile. 

So strap in for shocking confessions, experimental psychotherapy, and a revelation that shook the Swedish justice system to its core…

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Sources:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4857574/
‘The Strange Case of Thomas Quick: The Swedish Serial Killer and the Psychoanalyst Who Created Him’ by Dan Josefsson
https://www.gq.com/story/thomas-quick-serial-killer-august-2013
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/20/thomas-quick-bergwall-sweden-murder
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/thomas-quick-extraordinary-story-swedish-serial-killer-never/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/22/the-strange-case-thomas-quick-swedish-serial-killer-psychoanalyst-created-him-dan-josefsson-review
‘Thomas Quick: The Making of a Serial Killer’ by Hannes Råstam