John Ingvar LÖVGREN

AKA "Flickmördaren" ("The girl killer")

Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Rapist
Number of victims: 4
Date of murders: 1957 - 1963
Date of arrest: September 3, 1963
Date of birth: October 22, 1930
Victims profile: Agneta Nyholm, 26 / Greta Löfgren, 62 / Berit Glesing, 6 / Ann-Kristin Svensson, 4
Method of murder: Beating with a rock
Location: Stockholm region, Sweden
Status: Sentenced to closed psychiatric threatment at Salberga prison in March 1964. Died on February 9, 2002

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John Ingvar Lövgren (22 October 1930 - 9 February 2002) was a Swedish serial killer and rapist who confessed to four murders committed between 1958 and 1963 in the Stockholm region.

Lövgren was convicted and sentenced to closed psychiatric threatment at Salberga prison. He went under the name Flickmördaren (the girl killer) because his last two murders were two young girls. He was at the time of this death in 2002 no longer in threatment because of bad health from cancer. He was buried at Sala cemetery.

The novel Mannen på balkongen released by Sjöwall/Wahlöö in 1967 was based on John Ingvar Lövgren and his crimes.

Victims

Agneta Nyholm, 26. - murdered on the night of 27 June 1957 at her home in Fruängen. (Lövgren was never convicted of her murder and her case has since been closed and prescribated. Police however considers it solved and Lövgren as the assailant).

Greta Löfgren, 62. - raped and murdered in November 1962 in her home at Kungsholmen.

Berit Glesing, 6. - raped and murdered on 6 August 1963 in Vita Bergen at Södermalm.

Ann-Kristin Svensson, 4. - raped and murdered on 2 September 1963 in Aspudden.

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