Sweden finally knows

who killed its prime minister…three decades later.

Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot on a Stockholm

street as he and his wife walked home a nearby cinema on February 28, 1986.

Numerous conspiracy theories and speculations were

rife as a failed police investigation added to the mystery of the killing.

More than 100 people have claimed responsibility for

the murder over the years, for which Christer Pettersson, a local man with a

history of crime, was convicted in 1989.

During a press conference today, June 10, a Swedish

prosecutor Krister Petersson, said the killer was Stig Engstrom, a graphic designer

who told authorities then that he arrived at the scene shortly after the

murder.

Authorities then had dismissed Engstrom as an

attention-seeker, according to a Bloomberg report. However, police today said

he was involved in right-wing circles that woud have nurtured deep animosity

towards the Social Democratic leader.

Palme’s son, Marten, told media today that he is

convinced of Engstrom’s guilt but there’s no way to say for certain as he

committed suicide two decades ago.