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The Poisoning at Kvänarp 1823

about 1 h 15 min · 1–4 players

Småland, Sunnerbo hundred, May 1817. At the farm in Kvänarp in Berga parish the peasant Bengt Torsson was poisoned, and suspicion fell on his wife. Six years later his widow stood at the Sunnerbo hundred execution site, sentenced to lose her right hand, be beheaded and burned at the stake. A real case from Swedish legal history: the same investigation, the same accused and the same verdict. Everyone involved has been dead for more than a century, and the sources follow the case.

The Poisoning at Kvänarp 1823 – a murder case in Alibit. Up to eight people work the same case in the browser, with no game master.