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Woman Found Dead by the Lake Shore

The Kafkaesque story of the brutal killing of a woman who was found dead by the side of a lake in Sweden.

The Kafkaesque story of the brutal killing of a woman who was found dead by the side of a lake in Sweden. Agneta Westerlund had moved some years before to a small village from Stockholm along with her husband Ingemar. The couple had first met as teenagers and had been together for 40 years. Her body had suffered a series of bizarre and horrific injuries: one wound on the side of her back was the size of a wheel. Police arrested Ingemar and accused him of murdering his wife by running over her with a lawnmower and then dumping her body by the lake. So did he really kill Agneta?

Open Ear features documentaries from producers across the world being rebroadcast by the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service. This episode first aired on Sveriges Radio in Swedish.

(Photo: Lake shore in Sweden. Credit: Olivier Morin/AFP/Getty Images)

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