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Authorities end case as Stig Engström, probable killer of the prime minister, died in 2000Swedish authorities have closed their 34-year investigation into the unsolved murder of prime minister Olof Palme, naming a graphic designer at an insurance company as the probable killer but saying he could not be prosecuted because he was now dead.“We can’t get around one person as the perpetrator: he is...

Sources say South Africa handed over dossier on 1986 murder, but not everyone is hopeful mystery will be solvedThe findings of an investigation into one of the world’s most infamous cold cases, the 1986 assassination of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme, will finally be made public in Stockholm on Wednesday.Palme was shot in the back at close range on a Stockholm street while walking...