Alibit

The Wife Murder in Gustaf

about 1 h 30 min · 1–4 players

Gustaf parish in Skåne, spring 1815. A lodger from Räfstad has with deliberate intent taken the life of his third wife, after a marriage the sources call discontented and unhappy. He is taken to the castle prison in Malmö, sentenced by His Royal Majesty to lose his right hand, be beheaded and quartered, and the death sentence is carried out at the execution site in Vemmenhög hundred. A real case from Swedish legal history: names, place, verdict and punishment come from the church register of Malmö castle parish, and every detail in the file follows the sources. The sources accompany the case.

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