John Ingvar Lövgren

Serial killer

4known / alleged victims

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Case Facts

Gender: male
Country: Sweden
Location: Stockholm region, Sweden
Date of birth: October 22, 1930
Age at first offence: 27
Characteristics: rapist, serial rapist, torture
Victim profile: Agneta Nyholm, 26 / Greta Löfgren, 62 / Berit Glesing, 6 / Ann-Kristin Svensson, 4
Method of murder: Beating with a rock
Date(s) of murder: 1957 - 1963
Years active: 1957–1963
Date of arrest: September 3, 1963
Status: Died in custody
Sentenced to closed psychiatric threatment at Salberga prison in March 1964; died on February 9, 2002

Case Summary

Case record: John Ingvar Lövgren

John Ingvar Lövgren (22 October 1930 - 9 February 2002) was a Swedish serial killer and rapist.

He confessed to four murders committed between 1958 and 1963 in the Stockholm region. He was convicted and sentenced to closed psychiatric threatment at Salberga prison. At the time of his death in 2002, he was no longer in threatment due to bad health from cancer. He was buried at Sala cemetery.

He went under the name “Flickmördaren” (“the girl killer”) because his last two murders were of two young girls. The novel Mannen på balkongen released by Sjöwall/Wahlöö in 1967 was based on John Ingvar Lövgren and his crimes.

The offence

Lövgren was a serial killer who raped and murdered multiple victims:

Agneta Nyholm, 26 — murdered on the night of 27 June 1957 at her home in Fruängen. Lövgren was never convicted of her murder. Her case has since been closed and prescribated. Police considered it solved and considered Lövgren the assailant.
Greta Löfgren, 62 — raped and murdered in November 1962 in her home at Kungsholmen.
Berit Glesing, 6 — raped and murdered on 6 August 1963 in Vita Bergen at Södermalm.
Ann-Kristin Svensson, 4 — raped and murdered on 2 September 1963 in Aspudden.

Sentencing

Lövgren was sentenced to closed psychiatric threatment at Salberga prison in March 1964.

Outcome

He died on February 9, 2002.

Aftermath

Lövgren’s case was the basis for the novel Mannen på balkongen, released by Sjöwall/Wahlöö in 1967.

Other details

Lövgren was buried at Sala cemetery.

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