Victor Gunnarsson
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Victor Gunnarsson (? – between 3 and 4 December 1993) was a suspect in the 1986 Olof Palme assassination.[1] He was later in turn murdered in 1993 in North Carolina by former police officer Lamont C. Underwood.[2]
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[edit] Assassination of Olof Palme
A Swedish right-wing extremist, Victor Gunnarsson (labeled in the media 33-åringen, "the 33-year old"), was arrested on February 28, 1986, in Stockholm, Sweden, for the assassination of Olof Palme, but quickly released after a dispute between the police and prosecuting attorneys. Gunnarsson had connections to various extremist groups, among these the European Workers Party, the Swedish branch of the LaRouche Movement. The extent of his connection to the latter group was having signed a petition they were circulating on the streets of Stockholm. Also, pamphlets hostile to Palme from the party were found in his home outside Stockholm.
[edit] Death
Gunnarsson's nearly naked body was found in a wooded area called Deep Gap about 186 miles from his apartment in Salisbury, North Carolina. He was shot twice in the head with a .22 caliber firearm. The time of death is placed between December 3 and December 4, 1993. Former policeman Lamont C. Underwood was convicted of Gunnarsson's murder and is serving life imprisonment plus 40 years in Marion Correctional Institution in North Carolina.[3]
[edit] In the Media
His murder was featured on the Court TV series Forensic Files and the Discovery Channel series The New Detectives.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Dagens Nyheter, September 2, 1993
- ^ Dagens Nyheter, February 2, 1994
- ^ [[1]]
