Alibit

The Poison Murder at Häljakvarn

about 1 h 30 min · 1–4 players

In May 1856 the miller's wife Maria Elisabet Ruckman lies dead in her home at Häljakvarn in Kölaby parish, and the doctor finds arsenic in her body. The miller Gustaf Benjaminsson is arrested and convicted, while the maid at his side is questioned and released without sentence. In April 1858 he is taken to the execution site Knallen in Redväg hundred, where he is beheaded. A real case from the judgment books of the Göta Court of Appeal: the same poison, the same wife, the same verdict.

The Poison Murder at Häljakvarn – a murder case in Alibit. Up to eight people work the same case in the browser, with no game master.