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The Motala Murder of 1834

Free ·about 1 h 30 min · 1–4 players

Motala parish in Östergötland, the night of 23 September 1833. Through a hatch in Carlstén's shed a fatal shot is fired at the farmhand Jaen Jonsson Elg, and a known vagrant is sought in the district. Barely half a year later the final sentence falls at the gallows in Motala, and the widow is held to account for what she knew and kept silent about. A real case from Swedish legal history: the real parish register, the real newspaper notice and the real judgment. Everyone involved has been dead for more than a hundred years, and everything in the file comes from public records — the sources accompany the case.

The Motala Murder of 1834 – a murder case in Alibit. Up to eight people work the same case in the browser, with no game master.