Alibit

The Murder of Cornet Dahlman

about 1 h 30 min · 1–4 players

Gammalstorp in Kåkind hundred, Västergötland, 9 February 1825. Cornet Johan Gustaf Dahlman is beaten to death with an axe, and two farmhands from Gammalstorp in Forsby parish are bound to the deed. At Kåkind hundred's execution site at Ljungstorp on 5 October of the same year, both lost their right ear, were beheaded and quartered by the executioner Carl Gustaf Beckius. A real case from Swedish legal history: the actual trial and the actual execution. Everyone involved has been dead for more than two hundred years, and everything in the file comes from public records — the sources accompany the case.

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