The double murder on Tor's farm in 2005 is being tried in the Court of Appeal after a man was convicted via DNA genealogy.
The Court of Appeal is reviewing the verdict against a 45-year-old man who was sentenced to 14 years in prison for aiding and abetting the high-profile double murder on Tor's farm in Brattås in 2005, discovered via new DNA genealogy.
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Tor Öberg and Gerd Viklund were found murdered on Tor's farm in Brattås on 2 June 2005.
On June 2, 2005, Tor Öberg and Gerd Viklund, an estranged couple in their 70s, were found beaten to death on Tor's farm in Brattås just outside Härnösand's urban area.
The double murder had taken place two days before. The murder weapon, likely one of Tor Öberg's axes, has never been found.
DNA traces were secured at the crime scene. When DNA genealogy became legal in the summer of 2025, the steep toe investigation was selected as the first case. Then the National Forensic Center in collaboration with the Swedish Medical Examiner's Office created an extended DNA profile of the person who left the trace.
It was uploaded to one of the permitted commercial genealogy databases and then police dna genealogist Linda Kvist was able to trace the person.
In the spring of 2026, she met a 45-year-old man from Katrineholm - and on April 8 he was arrested. He was sentenced against his denial during the subsequent trial to 14 years in prison for accessory to murder in two cases.
The verdict has been appealed and the case will be taken up in the Court of Appeal starting on November 5.
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On June 2, 2005, Tor Öberg and Gerd Viklund were found beaten to death on Tor's farm in Brattås outside Härnösand. The murder weapon has never been recovered. DNA traces were secured and in 2025 DNA genealogy was used to identify a man from Katrineholm, who in April 2026 was arrested and sentenced to 14 years in prison for accessory to murder. The sentence has been appealed and will be taken up in the Court of Appeal on November 5.
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