Alibit

The Murder of Hans Byström

about 1 h 45 min · 1–4 players

Gotland, autumn 1827. At the farm in Fole the master of the house, Hans Byström, is found dead, and suspicion settles on those who worked and lived on the place — the labourer Josua Englund, his wife, and her young brother. The case is shelved when no one will confess, and it is only nine years later, when one of them is arrested for a stolen horse, that the case is reopened. A real case from Gotland's legal history: the real investigation, the real verdict, and the real execution on Endre backe on 26 September 1838. Everyone involved has been dead for nearly two hundred years, and everything in the file comes from the court of appeal's records and public sources — the sources accompany the case.

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