Alibit

The Courthouse Murders

about 1 h 45 min · 1–4 players

Söderhamn, Monday 1 March 1971. The 61-year-old farm owner Gunnar Bengtsson from Bergvik enters the courthouse of South-Eastern Hälsingland for a preparatory hearing in a civil case and leaves the building after shooting four people dead with thirteen shots: his former partner Cecilia Ekestang, her lawyer Ingemar Wåhlstedt, his own lawyer Olof Fagerström and the chief judge Yngve Carlson. The investigation concerns four dead, not one. The question is not who held the pistol but what six years of litigation, a harsh judgment and a Monday in the courtroom did to a human being. A real case from Swedish legal history: the courthouse murders in Söderhamn in 1971 and the trial of Gunnar Bengtsson. Records and sources accompany the case.

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