380:. Sara Svensson was sent away from the community. The assault was not reported to the police, and the Fossmos took a plane to a Bible school in Hong Kong. Secretly, Fossmo and Svensson kept in touch. The anonymous text messages also resumed. Svensson was instructed to buy a handgun (not an easy task in Sweden). She was told to shoot Daniel Linde too. The shootings took place in the early morning of 10 January 2004. Alexandra was shot dead in the head in her bed. Daniel Linde was shot in the chest and in his mouth, but he managed to call
376:, which she regarded as prophetic. Together with Fossmo's verbal instructions, these messages convinced her to try to kill Alexandra Fossmo. In the early morning of 8 November 2003, she attacked Alexandra with a hammer. Alexandra woke up and resisted the attack. She called her husband who was out in his car (with his lover, Mss. Linde), as well as some
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Alexandra and attempted murder of Daniel Linde, but acquitted him of the murder of Heléne. Fossmo appealed the convictions and the prosecutor appealed the acquittal, but the verdict was upheld. Fossmo's appeal to
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for the first time in August 1993. The main pastor Claes
Frankner had invited her to Kristinehamn from Knutby. His son Samuel was already an adherent of Waldau's and moved to Knutby in 1994. The Fossmos moved there in August 1997 with their two children (a third child was born in Knutby).
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repealed the decision, on the penalty requirement of at least 24 years of imprisonment for the severity of the crime, so that the application for parole was premature. In late 2019, the court accepted a fixed sentence of 26 years, and was subsequently released in early 2022.
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420:Örebro District Court
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1093:23 January
1064:3 December
569:3 December
306:IBRA Radio
294:Benny Hinn
282:Livets Ord
267:Coimbatore
245:Åsa Waldau
238:xenoglossy
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540:26 August
342:betrothed
330:Zvi Mazel
276:Fossmo's
216:Ulf Ekman
168:in 2004.
85:Spouse(s)
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745:BBC News
271:Hongkong
209:Karlstad
190:scouting
100:Children
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263:Estonia
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