Sweden - Ekeby, WhtMale, 35–55, Catholic jewelry, possibly from Eastern Europe/Balkans, Sept'03

[Mrs. Badcrumble]

Another international UID case from Sweden!

A mushroom picker discovered the partially hidden body of a deceased man in the woods of Ekeby, in Skåne, Wednesday, September 17th, 2003. The remains had been there for a estimated few months up to a year.

The man was most likely in his forties, and he had been stabbed to death.

Despite great investigation efforts, the man has not been identified. The man is assumed to originally come from Eastern Europe / Balkans area. He wore a Catholic piece of jewelry that has been tracked to Rijeka in Croatia. A reconstruction of the man has been made, and it has been published in several European countries, but without results. His DNA profile yielded no match either.

Swedish LE link: Kropp tillhörande okänd man hittad i Ekeby 2003 | Polismyndigheten
Google translated link: Google Oversetter
Aftonbladet: De döda som ingen saknar

 

[Mrs. Badcrumble]

Swedish LE has been using forensic genealogy to help identify the Ekeby Man! As of April 2019, EM was connected to Rijeka in Croatia, and they managed to also connect him to 20-ish names (possible relatives), with about 5 or 6 of these names most likely the man's relatives. The downside is that these names are very common, and LE is still working on trying to identify him. The article concludes with the possibility of cooperating with Croatian LE, but not until Swedish LE has more narrowed down information to offer.

Genombrott i kända mordfallet – namnträff på Ekebymannen

Kalla fall-gruppen tar hjälp av släktforskningsregister

 

[Mrs. Badcrumble]

*A bump for Ekebymannen*

He is briefly mentioned in this report on the Swedish police's use of forensic genealogy to solve cold cases. Nothing new from what's been posted earlier in this thread, except that the identification process has halted as of now because of the pandemic.

 

[Captain Beck]

Interesting report from NFC.

So far, AFAIK, it’s only been used in cold cases to find perpetrators, not for identifying UID’s. Two cases have been solved, a brutal rape of an 8-year-old girl in 1995 in Billdal outside Gothenburg and a double homicide in 2004 in Linköping (the pilot project). However, since mid-2021, Swedish Police cannot use forensic geneology since current Swedish legislation does not allow it according to the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection. So right now it’s on hold, until either laws are changed or Legal Affairs at the Swedish Police Authority interprets applicable legislation differently.