May 8, 2017: Public Prosecution Office in Karlstad says investigation has been resumed. May 4, 2017: Lawyer Tomas Olsson, representing the brothers Robin and Christian, now 23 and 25, announces the investigation into Kevin's death is to be re-opened.
The boys who killed him were handed over to social services.Īpril 2017 (19 years later): The Daily News paper launched a review of Kevin's case ahead of an SVT documentary also about his death. November 1998: The police held a press conference to say Kevin was killed when the boys were playing and it 'got out of hand'. Late October: After questioning the two brothers without a lawyer or their parents present, the police determine they must have been Kevin to death He had been missing for several hours.Īugust 22, 1998: The father of Christian, seven, and Robin, five, tells the police they have important information related to his death. 'You get p***** off, angry and disappointed that it's possible for something like this to happen.'Īugust 16, 1998: Kevin's grandfather finds his dead body on Church Bay beach in the Dottevik area of Arvika. His brother, Mr Dalén, added: 'Should anyone come up today and ask, "Are you involved in this case with Kevin?", Then I can answer 'yes'. 'Now a new chapter begins, one can finally settle down. I do not need to be afraid anymore.'
Mr Karlsson, the older brother, said: 'They have taken years of my life that I will never ever get back. The documentary also suggests that the two boys had an alibi because another family had visited their family when the murder took place. The site also reports that the alleged confession from the brothers has since been doubted whether it was true or not. Their involvement in the murder has always been questioned and the brothers are now hoping for a total acquittal - and an apology.Īccording to Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan, the documentary suggests officers made mistakes during the investigation and pressured the brothers during 30 interrogation sessions.ĭuring the interviews, the boys typically would be quizzed without any plaintiff counsel present or parents. This is the spot in Arvika, Sweden, where four-year-old Kevin was found dead in 1998
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Kevin's alleged killers were taken into care and decided to speak to for the first time about the case in a three-part documentary series which is being watched by millions in Sweden. 'Had the police done their work in 1998, we might not have been in this painful situation now.' It's even more question marks than ever before. He added: 'I'm busy trying to understand this new information, everything feels a bit chaotic. Patrick said he has been trying to process the police conclusion for almost two decades. 'It feels like falling into a big darkness again. 'I do not know what to believe anymore,' Kevin's father Patrick Skog told Aftonbladet. They were not formally convicted or prosecuted because they were younger than 15-years-old.įor nearly 19 years, Kevin's parents believed the brothers killed their son but now, in a remarkable development, new investigations have cast doubt on the investigation. The boys were questioned days later as witnesses but in November, Swedish Police announced the boys had confessed and killed Kevin.
The police told Kevin's heartbroken family that Kevin's playmates Robin and Christian, five and seven respectively at the time, killed him during a game gone horribly wrong in August 1998.
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