SWEDEN - Jasmina Jasharaj, 6, Sävsjö, 15 April 1991

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1987DFSWE - Jasmina Jasharaj

Physical Description​

Date of Birth: April 15, 1991
Age: 6 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: Unknown
Weight: Unknown
Hair Color: Dark
Eye Color: Dark
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown

Identifiers​

Dentals: Unknown
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Unknown

Clothing & Personal Items​

Clothing: Tights with pattern of small flowers; T-shirt with image of Michael Jackson.
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown

Circumstances of Disappearance​

Jasmina was last seen around 20.30 on July 28, 1997, circa 400 meters from her home in Savsjo.
Although her mother gave an other version in this article : Nya uppgifter om hur Jasmina, 6, försvann – mammans ilska mot polisen

"The mother, Florije Jasharaj, wrote the book 'Sävsjöflickan' with the help of author Assar Andersson, which will be published on December 1. In this document, the mother says that Jasmina played between 3 and 4 p.m. in one room of the apartment while she herself was in another room.

Jasmina was heard singing in the room, according to the mother. Then it must have sounded like the door was open, then the singing must have stopped.

- I always said something happened in the hall. I think someone took Jasmina away, says Florije Jasharaj.

(...)

The mother, Florije Jasharaj, reacted strongly to the police response and believes that this is not new information at all.

- I don't understand anything, I've said it several times. I'm a little upset too. Didn't anyone listen to me? This does not appear to be the case. This is certainly not new."

An extensive search failed to find any trace of her.

Investigating Agency(s)​

Agency Name: Eksjö Police
Agency Contact Person: Johan Frisk or Gunnar Karlsson
Agency Phone Number: +46-0381-37 000
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: N/A

 

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The surname is Albanian and Kosovan in origin..

What about the father? There is no mention of him.

Is there any chance he (or another relative) kidnapped his daughter and took her back to Albania or Kosovo?

 

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The surname is Albanian and Kosovan in origin..

What about the father? There is no mention of him.

Is there any chance he (or another relative) kidnapped his daughter and took her back to Albania or Kosovo?

The father died in 2017, a few years before the interview quoted in the OP was published. They were living together when Jasmina went missing, and as far as I can tell, they were still living together when he died.

Jasmina, 6, försvann utan ett enda spår

6-åriga Jasmina i Sävsjö gick ner på gården för att leka. Sedan dess har hennes föräldrar inte sett henne. De fick uppleva alla föräldrars mardröm och 19 år senare letar familjen fortfarande efter en förklaring till vad som hänt henne. – Hoppet är det sista man släpper, säger Rexhep Jasharaj...

www.expressen.se

 

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The surname is Albanian and Kosovan in origin..

What about the father? There is no mention of him.

Is there any chance he (or another relative) kidnapped his daughter and took her back to Albania or Kosovo?

The father died in 2017, a few years before the interview quoted in the OP was published. They were living together when Jasmina went missing, and as far as I can tell, they were still living together when he died.

Jasmina, 6, försvann utan ett enda spår

6-åriga Jasmina i Sävsjö gick ner på gården för att leka. Sedan dess har hennes föräldrar inte sett henne. De fick uppleva alla föräldrars mardröm och 19 år senare letar familjen fortfarande efter en förklaring till vad som hänt henne. – Hoppet är det sista man släpper, säger Rexhep Jasharaj...

www.expressen.se

Jasmina mother stated in this article (Nya uppgifter om hur Jasmina, 6, försvann – mammans ilska mot polisen):"It gets even more difficult. I lost my husband in 2017 and before he passed away he told me he hoped to see her again."

Everything is possible I guess, but it is very unlikely that a relative took her to Kosovo or Albania. Also the police never had any evidence that Jasmina was living in another country. I wish this was the case but imo that's not what happened here..

 

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Just came across another photo of Jasmina. Look how cute she is!! (her mother on the right)

 

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Jasmina mother stated in this article (Nya uppgifter om hur Jasmina, 6, försvann – mammans ilska mot polisen):"It gets even more difficult. I lost my husband in 2017 and before he passed away he told me he hoped to see her again."

Everything is possible I guess, but it is very unlikely that a relative took her to Kosovo or Albania. Also the police never had any evidence that Jasmina was living in another country. I wish this was the case but imo that's not what happened here..

Thank you for that information. Appreciate it.

 

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For a time, police considered Anders Eklund as a serious suspect is Jasmina's disappearance. He's currently serving a life sentence for two murders. But they didn't release any news about it for the last years so I guess they didn't have any evidence to link him to the little girl.
Victim's family: hope for the suffering to end - Radio Sweden

 

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Thank you for that information. Appreciate it.

You're very welcome. Thank you for coming on this thread and giving some of your time to Jasmina.

 

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Interestingly, the place where she went missing from, Sävsjö, is a small village in the center of Southern Sweden with only about 5,100 people. No big cities near it for a few hundred kilometers.

I don't think it would have had many more inhabitants back then.

I wonder if it was an opportunistic kidnapping while she was out playing?

I doubt a neighbour would be responsible in such a small village, the chances of being seen would be too high..... but you never know.

 

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Translated some parts of this article regarding Anders Eklund's possible involvement in Jasmina's disappearance AFTONBLADET AVSLÖJAR: Anders Eklund misstänkt för ett tredje mord - nekar


"Anders Eklund, 49, was convicted of the murder of 10-year-old Engla in 2008 and 31-year-old Pernilla Hellgren in 2000 and is serving his sentence at Norrtälje Institution.

He is now suspected of another murder, that of 6-year-old Jasmina. She disappeared in Sävsjö on July 28, 1997.

Investigators suspected early on that the missing Jasmina had been kidnapped and murdered, and the investigation was renamed a few years ago from disappearance to murder."

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"In 2010, the National Crime Agency's Offender Profile Group carried out a very thorough review to determine whether Eklund could have committed crimes other than those for which he was convicted.

All unsolved murders, murders, disappearances, kidnappings and serious sex crimes that occurred between 1987 and 2008 were compiled.

The review showed that Eklund was near crime scenes when the crimes were committed in 396 cases. Law enforcement agencies across the country were then given the list of “their” unsolved cases to review again."

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"In the afternoon, Eklund was questioned by police for more than two hours. According to his lawyer Leif Silbersky, he denies any wrongdoing.

- He categorically rejected any form of assertion that he should have been involved in the disappearance of this young girl, says Silbersky and continues:

- He completely questions the suspicions and believes that these suspicions have no basis."

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"On July 18, 2008, Anders Eklund is charged with murder and aggravated rape of Pernilla Hellgren and Engla Juncosa Höglund, for attempted rape of another woman as well as child crimes and is sentenced on October 6 to life imprisonment."

 

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Interestingly, the place where she went missing from, Sävsjö, is a small village in the center of Southern Sweden with only about 5,100 people. No big cities near it for a few hundred kilometers.

I don't think it would have had many more inhabitants back then.

I wonder if it was an opportunistic kidnapping while she was out playing?

I doubt a neighbour would be responsible in such a small village, the chances of being seen would be too high..... but you never know.

The fact that the mother's statements and the official police statements contradict each other makes this question even more difficult to answer.
If as stated for years in articles by police she was playing outside, then it could totally be an opportunistic kidnapping.
But if she was taken from the hall as the mother stated (and she didn't say that she heard her screaming) then it would make me think that it was someone she knew (jmo obviously I could be totally wrong on that)

As you just said, the chances of being seen in a small village could seem like a big risk for a neighbour, but if that person was living really close and decided to take the child to their house that they could quickly access, maybe they did decide to take this risk anyway and were just lucky enough so that no one could see them.

Hard to know where to begin on this case.. So many possibilities

 

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The fact that the mother's statements and the official police statements contradict each other makes this question even more difficult to answer.

That discrepancy between the police version and what the mother is saying is definitely interesting.
This in the police's version caught my attention though:

From day one, the police's starting point has been that Jasmina left home at 2pm and went out to play with some friends. They later reportedly separated at around 8 p.m., and the last person to see Jasmina was a 15-year-old acquaintance who saw her walking towards a grove of trees.

Wouldn't be the first time... On the other hand, if the perpetrator was a teenager, odds are high that Jasmina would've been found eventually, if not soon.

 

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Wouldn't be the first time... On the other hand, if the perpetrator was a teenager, odds are high that Jasmina would've been found eventually, if not soon.

Yeah I think a teenager doesn't have the necessary mental organization to hide a body so well. And teenagers, most of the time they can't keep these stories for themselves and at least tell a friend or a girlfriend.
I was thiking of the possibility that she was taken in some kind of underground adoption system or by someone who wanted a child of their own (best case scenario), but I think she was a little too old for that. I mean, at 6 years old I don't know if she could have forgotten all of her past life. At least she would probably have had some flashbacks of her real parents, her former house, school, friends...
What are you toughts on it?

 

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Yeah I think a teenager doesn't have the necessary mental organization to hide a body so well. And teenagers, most of the time they can't keep these stories for themselves and at least tell a friend or a girlfriend.
I was thiking of the possibility that she was taken in some kind of underground adoption system or by someone who wanted a child of their own (best case scenario), but I think she was a little too old for that. I mean, at 6 years old I don't know if she could have forgotten all of her past life. At least she would probably have had some flashbacks of her real parents, her former house, school, friends...
What are you toughts on it?

Yes, she would remember, and I think creating a new identity for a 6-year-old would be near impossible to pull off in Sweden, so if she was kidnapped for adoption, she would have had to be taken abroad.

Anders Eklund became kind of a bogeyman in Sweden after Engla's murder, and there was lots of speculation connecting him to several other similar crimes. So he is of course one possibility, but there were others as well, for example Anders Eriksson, the so-called Billdal Man (Billdalsmannen in Swedish), who grabbed an 8-yr-old girl off her bicycle and violently raped her in 1995. He was only caught and sentenced in 2019 thanks to DNA evidence.

 

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So he is of course one possibility, but there were others as well, for example Anders Eriksson, the so-called Billdal Man (Billdalsmannen in Swedish), who grabbed an 8-yr-old girl off her bicycle and violently raped her in 1995. He was only caught and sentenced in 2019 thanks to DNA evidence.

Yeah I feel like they considered Anders Eklund as a suspect for no real reason expect his other crimes.

I didn't know about Anders Eriksson (have to admit I don't know much about Swedish sk) but I'll look into it! Thank you