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The Murder at Övra Bägby

about 1 h 45 min · 1–4 players

Öland, the night of 27 March 1844. The farmer and former churchwarden Olof Larsson of Övra Bägby is not in his bed, and the household says he has gone away — but no one in the village has seen him leave. At the end of May his body is pulled from the Calmar Sound, sunk with a stone and struck with an axe in the barn. The following year two of his sons stand on Bägby gallows hill, and at their side in the judgment stands the mother of the house. A real case from Öland's legal history: the real investigation, the real judgment and the real execution on 11 September 1845. Everyone involved has been dead for more than one hundred and sixty years, and everything in the file comes from church archives and public records — the sources accompany the case.

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