Dead woman discovered in ditch in central Sweden

A woman was found dead Sunday evening in a ditch near her home east of Tibro in Västergötland in central Sweden.

Published: 9 February 2009 08:25 CET

The woman was discovered by her boyfriend around 8.30pm and had visible injuries to her body.

How the injuries occurred and why the woman was lying outside remains unknown.

“Because we don’t know under what conditions she received her injuries, we’re working two angles,” said Skövde police spokesperson Johan Rapp to the TT news agency.

“Either it was an accident, which is most likely, or it involves some sort of crime,” he said.

Police have blocked off the area to carry out a technical investigation.

As of late Sunday night there were no suspects in the case.

Body found in Oslo flat nine years after death

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The man, who was in his sixties, had been married more than once and also had children, national broadcaster NRK reports.

His name has been kept anonymous. According to neighbours he liked to keep to himself and when they didn’t see him, they thought he had moved or been taken to assisted living.

“Based on the details we have, it is obviously a person who has chosen to have little contact with others,” Grethe Lien Metild, chief of Oslo Police District, told NRK.

His body was discovered when a caretaker for the building he was living in requested police open the apartment so he could carry out his work.

“We have thought it about a lot, my colleagues and people who have worked with this for many years. This is a special case, and it makes us ask questions about how it could happen,” Metild said.

Police believe the man died in April 2011, based on a carton of milk and a letter that were found in his apartment. An autopsy has shown he died of natural causes.

His pension was suspended in 2018 when the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) could not get in touch with him, but his bills were still paid out of his bank account and suspended pension fund.

Arne Krokan, a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, said the man’s death would have unlikely gone unnoticed for so long if he had died 30 years ago.

“In a way, it is the price we have paid to get digital services,” he said to NRK.

Last year 27 people were found in Oslo, Asker or Bærum seven days or more after dying. The year before the number was 32 people. Of these, one was dead for almost seven months before being discovered.

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