Episode 267 – The Unbelievable Saga of Thomas Quick

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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.<br><br>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. <br><br>So strap in for shocking confessions, experimental psychotherapy, and a revelation that shook the Swedish justice system to its core…<br><br><strong>2022 LIVE SHOW TICKET LINKS:</strong><br><a href="https://redhandedpodcast.com/">https://redhandedpodcast.com</a><br><br><strong>Sources:</strong><br><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4857574/">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4857574/</a><br>‘The Strange Case of Thomas Quick: The Swedish Serial Killer and the Psychoanalyst Who Created Him’ by Dan Josefsson<br><a href="https://www.gq.com/story/thomas-quick-serial-killer-august-2013">https://www.gq.com/story/thomas-quick-serial-killer-august-2013</a><br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/20/thomas-quick-bergwall-sweden-murder">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/20/thomas-quick-bergwall-sweden-murder</a><br><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/thomas-quick-extraordinary-story-swedish-serial-killer-never/">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/thomas-quick-extraordinary-story-swedish-serial-killer-never/</a><br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/22/the-strange-case-thomas-quick-swedish-serial-killer-psychoanalyst-created-him-dan-josefsson-review">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/22/the-strange-case-thomas-quick-swedish-serial-killer-psychoanalyst-created-him-dan-josefsson-review</a><br>‘Thomas Quick: The Making of a Serial Killer’ by Hannes Råstam