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The ‘Stockholm Vampire’ Killing
Did the unknown killer drink their victim’s blood?
Stockholm, Sweden, 1932
Thirty-two-year-old Lilly Lindeström was a sex worker in the Atlas district of Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. Lilly was a ‘call girl’; her clients contacted her by phone in order to arrange meetings at her small apartment at Sankt Eriksplan 11.
Lilly was not a Stockholm native but had moved there from the city of Malmö, southern Sweden, where she had been born in 1900.
Her nickname (also known to the police) was ‘Skåne Lilly’, referencing the region in Sweden which she was from.
Lindström was Lilly’s married name. She had married a merchant from Malmö but was divorced at the time she lived in Stockholm.
Walpurgis Night
On the evening before May Day — known as Walpurgis Night in Sweden — Lilly’s neighbour Minnie Jansson, 35, who lived downstairs and was also a sex worker, was visiting with Lilly in her apartment.
The pair talked about what they would wear later in the evening to go out to Djurgården island, a royal park in the southwest of Stockholm, for the traditional Walpurgis Night celebrations.
