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grab a beer. Let's talk some true crime. [Music] [Music] Thomas Quick has been convicted of
unspeakable crimes. He has confessed to stabbings, stranglings, rape, and cannibalism.
He confessed to tricking young Charles Amanowitz into his car, driving the boy to the forest and raping and killing
him. He confessed to snatching up little Yan Aspelin on his way to school, never to
be seen again. Thomas told of the time that he attacked an unsuspecting married couple in the
middle of the night. He told his doctors and then told investigators about the time he took a
24 year old tourist captive because he liked the way that he looked. [Music] He shocked the courts when Thomas
admitted to chopping up a little girl, but adding he had wished the victim would have been a boy.
Quick confessed that while traveling in Norway, he killed a prostitute and kidnapped and murdered a 17-year-old
girl. [Music] In all, Thomas Quick confessed to over 30 brutal murders, making him Sweden's
most evil and worst serial killer. This man is better known by the name of Thomas Quick, but his birth name is
Stuart Bergwall. And he was born in Sweden in the year 1950. Born into a large family, he had a couple brothers
and a couple of sisters. >> One of them was his twin sister. There were seven kids altogether. For the sake
of this episode, we will refer to him as Thomas Quick. Thomas became aware at the
age of 14 that he is a homosexual. And you know, most of us can imagine that in the 1960s was a pretty tough time for a
young man to be coming out. Back then in Sweden, being gay was considered well, basically a a disorder. And, you know,
people were treated with therapy for being homosexual. Thomas started getting into trouble at
an early age. His grades were not very good. And he was getting in trouble for things like touching and grabbing
classmates. >> Mhm. He also became a drug addict at an early age. But Thomas started to feel
like there was a place for him in this world when he was still a teenager. He fell in love with an older man. This guy
was like 15 years older than him. M >> they had a relationship for a few months and then the guy ends up committing
suicide and of course this destroys Thomas and he starts going well pretty hard at the drinking and with the drugs
after this and right before Thomas's 19th birthday he would be high on some drugs and what he claims and he'd be
walking around the town of Fallen and he would grab a a kid by the neck. >> Yes. This was an 11 yearear-old boy. He
grabbed him by the neck and he took him into a garage. He told the boy to pull down his pants and Thomas then touched
the boy inappropriately. >> Two other such events occurred as well shortly after this. After which Thomas
got himself into a lot of trouble regarding an incident at the fallen hospital >> where Thomas Quick was an employee of
>> Yeah. One night while he was working, he saw a 9-year-old boy sleeping in his
hospital bed. And Thomas touched the boy and sexually assaulted the boy. The boy
woke up and started screaming. Thomas put his hand over the boy's mouth to silence the screams. And it sounds like
Thomas was choking the boy as well. Regardless, he tried to silence the boy so long and so forcibly that blood
started coming from the boy's nose. At the sight of blood, Thomas fled, believing that he had killed the boy. He
had in fact had not killed the boy. >> Because of this, Thomas was sent to live in a mental hospital. And for the next
few years, Thomas was in and out of residential treatment of this hospital. So, Thomas is a drug addict now. And it
it seems to me like Thomas is heavy into the drugs, and when he is heavy into the
drugs, he's out of control, and he's very dangerous. Mhm. >> When Thomas is clean and sober, it seems
to be a whole different story. >> Well, it seems like he he's using the drugs as a way to deal with uh his
homosexuality. >> Yes. And and other issues that he might be having >> right >> now. Thomas gets clean, you know, while
he's receiving treatment and he gets better and this leads to outpatient treatment. However, after Thomas is
being treated as an outpatient, he gets hooked on drugs again and we start to see this outofcontrol monster growing
inside of him. When Thomas Quick is 23, he's in the town of Upsula and he goes out clubbing. He went to a place that he
considered to be a gay hangout. There he met a student named Leonard. The two of
them hit it off pretty good. They spend the evening drinking and talking, and they end up going back to Leonard's
place. Now, Thomas is still very much a drug addict at this time, and he was sniffing a solvent. And he would sniff
this because it would make him hallucinate. So, he starts off sniffing this stuff after a night of drinking.
And I believe he's doing this unbeknownst to Leonard. Leonard goes to the bathroom and when he comes out,
Thomas starts attacking him. He has grabbed a knife that he found in the apartment. He's stabbing Leonard over
and over again. >> Yeah, I believe he stabbed him 12 times. Thomas would later claim that he was in
fact hallucinating quite a bit that night and that Thomas believed that he was defending himself, saying that when
Leonard came out of the bathroom, he didn't see Leonard at all, but instead he saw a very large monster that he
believed would attack and kill him. >> Mhm. >> Leonard watched as Thomas washed off the
knife after stabbing him, trying to clean the knife of blood and fingerprints. Thomas stuffed the knife
into his leather jacket and left Leonard there to die. Thomas had stabbed Leonard, like the captain said, 12
times, stabbing him in the liver, intestines, and the left lung. Police would later find the knife in a canal.
And somehow Leonard survives this attack. >> Right. >> In 1990, Thomas Quick is still drinking
a lot and he's severely addicted to drugs. He's 40 years old by this time and he's in trouble financially. this
most likely because of the drug addiction and he decides to try his hand at a little bank robbery. Thomas and an
18-year-old man go to the home of the bank manager. Thomas is wearing a Santa Claus mask and the partner is wearing a
ski mask. The two knock on the door at 5:45 a.m. and the manager answers the door to his home. They then force their
way inside. Thomas is waving a knife at the man and Thomas's partner has a gun pointed at the man.
>> Mhm. >> They then grab the man's wife and 10-year-old son and herd them into a
bedroom. Thomas's partner takes the bank manager to the bank where he's going to
take money from the safe and as an insurance policy. Thomas is going to stay behind at the manager's home,
basically taking the wife and the kid hostage. While the man and Thomas's partner were gone, Thomas yelled and
screamed, waving his knife at the woman and her son. He kicked over furniture. He stabbed the bed and stabbed the walls
several times. >> He had a broad face with a little round belly. He shook when he laughed like a
bowl full of jelly. >> Well, he's being very violent and he's threatening both of them with his knife.
>> Mhm. >> He also tells the woman and her son that he is infected with the AIDS virus and
he only has a very short time to live. So, it really doesn't matter to him if the two lived or died that day. It It
wouldn't bother him one bit. He's got nothing else going. >> Nothing to live for.
>> Nothing to lose. Of course. >> Well, right. Nothing. Yeah, that's better. >> Of course, Thomas. This is not a really
wellthoughtout plan. Uh it really kind of just spirals out of control. And he's actually caught later that day for this
crime. and he ends up going to a psychiatric hospital, a place called Seder. Now, I believe this time that
it's going to be quite different for Thomas, though, because this place is described pretty much as a place that is
somewhere between a hospital and a prison. So, it sounds to me like this is a little more hardcore and deservingly
so for Thomas. Now, at Seder, he is going to undergo a much different type of therapy and treatment than he has
participated in before. >> Mhm. It sounds like this type of therapy involves a lot of drugs and a lot of
lengthy therapy sessions. It is here at Seder that he would change his name from
Stir Bergwall to Thomas Quick. And there is some reasoning behind the name Thomas
Quick. Quick is his mother's family name. And Thomas is >> maiden name. and Thomas. The name Thomas
comes from someone that we have not talked about yet, but Thomas was the name of Thomas Quick's first victim, a
14-year-old boy whose bloody lifeless body was found in a shed with his pants partially removed.
>> And Thomas Quick was actually 14 at the time of this murder. And he didn't confess to it till years later.
>> But because Sweden has a statute of limitations that he could actually be charged for this murder,
>> right? He was never charged or convicted of of this actual crime. >> And as we know that in United States
there is no statute of limitations on murder. >> We're going to hold you accountable for
the rest of your life. >> And it seems like the doctors or the the treatment that he was receiving it was
kind of like this cuttingedge idea. >> And the idea was that you have probably these repressed memories or these
repressed, you know, a a repressed memory of you seeing a crime. And so if we can open up this repressed memory
that it would also open up this repressed uh time where you actually committed a crime.
>> Yeah. That that this violent behavior that you would repress some of these memories and later due to the treatment
be able to recall some of these acts that you've committed or witnessed before. >> Now it's during this therapy and
treatment that Thomas Quick starts to open up and he's offering a confession of sorts. In June of 1992, he tells one
of the caregivers at the psychiatric hospital that he has done something very serious, right?
>> And it's almost like he's going to be playing a game. He doesn't come right out and say it. Uh I can't figure out if
he was just reluctant to say it and wanted someone else to say the words. Uh but first it's like he wants the
caregiver to guess what he's about to tell her, >> saying that he would give her a clue.
And the clue is mu. >> Yeah. So he's basically trying to confess to a murder. >> Yes. He's he's saying that he possibly
has committed a murder and he might be willing to confess this to his doctors. >> Mhm.
>> Well, after doing so, the the doctors at Seder, they get some investigators involved because now they have a crime
to report. And once the investigators sit down with Thomas Quick, they're able to go through some crimes that he's
saying that he has committed. >> Right. But before this actually takes place, because he says, "I I want to
talk about a murder that happened," they're actually going to start giving him a lot more attention. They're
actually he's actually going to see receive more therapy treatments uh to have him open up his mind so he can
recall these events. >> Mhm. They they want to make him comfortable so he can explore and
confess these items to them. >> Mhm. Eventually, this this investigation will lead to the trial process, and the
trial started in 1994. This was for the murder of a 15-year-old boy named Charles Zamanowitz.
Thomas explained how he and a friend were looking for a boy in November of 1976 when they saw Charles walking along
the road late one evening, visibly distressed and alone. Thomas pulled over to offer the boy a ride home. Charles
accepted the ride. During the ride, Thomas starts touching and feeling Charles's hands and body. He convinces
Charles to fool around with him. So, they stopped off and parked. Thomas's friend who was driving and now that they
are parked, well, he wanted to join in. But then Thomas Quick became angered at something that Charles had said, and he
put his hands around Charles's neck and he choked the boy until he was dead. Afterward, Quick played further sexual
games with the dead body. Then the two of them carried the body into the forest. Quick had a knife and a saw.
Quick is going to use this saw to cut up the different body parts. Reason being is his doctors would claim at trial his
sexuality was actually driven by this. that each body part symbolized a different value system.
>> It seems to me, Captain, like they're trying to apply logic to complete craziness here. You know, stating that
basically he knew that Thomas Quick knew before he started cutting up the body that he what parts he wanted to remove,
maybe what parts he wanted to take with him. Um, at the trial, Thomas Quick described the way that the body uh
seemed to have it groaned as he cut it up. >> He also described what he called a sweet
odor that was released from the body as he was cutting it up. He explained how he cut off parts of the body and took a
leg and a hand with him and put them in a gray plastic bag and then covered the rest of the body with debris and moss.
>> Yeah, I'm sure it's this beautiful smell. Oh, I mean it smells as good as Nickelback.
>> After the murder, a short time later, the accomplice came to Thomas Quick and
he said that because of his participation in Charles's murder and the dumping of the body that he was
having a lot of suicidal thoughts. Now, Thomas says that he advised his friend that he should follow through with these
thoughts and the friend ultimately committed suicide. >> Yeah, that I I think that's reasonable.
Well, and that this is Thomas Quick's way of explaining why he he tells this story of him being with a friend. They
abduct this boy. They do terrible things to him, and now all of a sudden, this this friend is nowhere to be found.
>> How about this one? Kill yourself before you do something like that. >> This was the first confession, but it
would not be the last. And same with the murder trials as well. There were going
to be many more confessions and several more murder trials. Thomas went to trial
again, but this time he was facing charges for a double murder. This is for a husband and wife named Marinus and
Janney Stagen House. Now, they were tourist and they were murdered at a secluded lakeside campsite in 1984.
Thomas Quick explained how he had snuck up to the tent very quietly and then in a frenzied attack he stabbed the husband
through the tent canvas and as the man lie there bleeding. Thomas then went inside the tent. He gave a detailed
confession as to what took place from there, but we don't need to go through all of the details of this horrific
attack. Well, not only did they do confessions, but they would always take him to the scenes as well. And they'd
actually set up like a tent >> and they'd have him reenact it. >> Yeah. >> And he'd make all these noises where
he'd, you know, he'd start stabbing, but the whole time he'd stab him, he's going,
>> he's he sounds he sounds like a some kind of animal, you know, when when this
is going on, but he's reliving it, >> right? He also acts like he's in this like trance like state like because they
were able to uh take these these thoughts that were repressed and they bring them to the surface because of
that he it puts him in a translike state. >> Mhm. >> It's very dramatic. >> Mhm.
>> All in all due to his confession and the forensic evidence it is known that he
stabbed the husband 25 times and the wife after which he had stabbed 20 times. This appears simply to be a crime
of opportunity to me. He He happened upon the two and attacked them. They didn't even know what was happening
until it was too late. >> Right. >> Thomas stated that this was >> Have fun camping this weekend.
>> Well, this was a very very much a psychological thing for him that in some way he was attacking his own parents and
that killing that married couple. It was like he was killing his parents who he,
you know, ultimately blamed for a very nasty childhood. >> So, the fourth crime that he would be
convicted of that Thomas Quick would also confess to would be a crime that took place in 1988.
>> This was for the murder of 24year-old Israeli student Yen Levy, who was visiting family and sightseeing. Thomas
Quick told how he kidnapped Levy at a train station and took him to a vacant home. Once there, Levy tried to escape
and made it out of the house and into the yard, but Quick soon caught up to the man, recaptured him and killed him
there in the home, >> which is surprising because, you know, Thomas Quick just looks like a bag of
skin, you know, no muscles. And Yen was 24, so you'd think that he would be able
to outrun, you know, this he basically looks just like a like a bag of skin, you know, filled with poop.
Yeah, he He doesn't look strong. He's not strong or athletic looking by any means. No,
>> he looks very soft. >> The first The fifth murder that Thomas Quick would be convicted of was for the
murder of a 9-year-old Norwegian girl. Her name is Theres Johannes, and this took place in 1988 as well. Thomas Quick
described how he had seen the girl somewhere near her home. Now, the day that he saw her, it was raining very
hard, and she had taken cover while she was waiting for the downpour to finish. Quick pulled over and engaged the girl
in light conversation before grabbing her and taking her down a slope to a secluded area.
>> Is this the girl that he actually assumed at first was a a young boy? >> I think so. Yes. Uh he he then smashed
her head against a rock until she was unconscious. He reported that her last words were her crying out for her
mother. He later recalled how he was extremely disappointed after taking her body back to the car because she turned
out to be a girl and not a boy. After dismembering her, he then hid different body parts in different places around
the area. He said that he returned to where he had buried these parts the following year and he burned the
remains. And at one of the sites, he identified what investigators found to be a a bone fragment and it was sent off
for analysis. Now, I do want to specify here that this was a an extremely small piece that they found and it was too old
or too degraded uh for any type of DNA analysis. >> For the sixth and seventh murders, he
would be tried for, he would be tried for both of those at the same time. Both of these murders, just like the last one
that we discussed, took place in Norway. Uh the first was for a 23-year-old female prostitute named Gray Stovvic,
and this took place in 1985. He said that he had he had basically taken her captive, and he forced her to
strip, he tortured her, and then he described how she vomited as he beat her. He basically beat her to death. M
the seventh murder was that of 17-year-old Trine Jensen, who Thomas Quick killed in 1981. He stated that he
violently stranged her, strangled her with a strap from her handbag. His last murder conviction was for a
very famous case and one of the first murders that Thomas had actually confessed to. This is for the murder of
an 11-year-old boy named Johan Aspen, which took place in 1980. Mhm. >> Johan had disappeared November 7th, 1980
in Sunsville, Sweden. He was supposed to be having a friend stay the evening with
him that night at his parents house. The boy's friend arrived at the home before
Yan did. >> Yeah. >> And the boy was told that Johan had not yet returned from school so that the boy
should run down and go back to the school and meet up with him and the two could walk back to the home together.
>> And this was a hugely popular case in Sweden. Mhm. >> This would be very similar to a case
that we had here, not as far as the details, but as far as the popularity of the case, our case here being um the
Adam Walsh case. The boy then after being instructed to go find his friend and walk home with him, well, he comes
back to the home and he says that he had learned that Johan had not actually gone
to school that day. Uh the disappearance of this boy very quickly was te televised and many people came out to
lend their time to look for the boy. Hundreds of people searched for him and he was not found. Uh over 10 years
later, Thomas Quick then confessed to doctors and then to investigators that he had saw the little boy on his way to
school that November morning. Thomas Quick spoke to the boy, saying that he had hit a cat with his car and asked if
the boy could help him out. The boy agreed to help Quick. And when Johan bent over to look under the car for the
cat, Quick grabbed the boy by the hair and he smashed his head into the car. He then pulled him inside of the vehicle.
He drove the boy to the countryside where he sexually assaulted him and then strangled him. quick cut up the body and
he buried some of the internal organs there on the countryside, but he put the hands on the on the car's front seat and
the head and the legs in a plastic bag and then the remains of the torso in another bag.
>> He then disposed of one hand along the roadside as he drove away. He buried the
other hand in a stream. He tossed it in a stream. >> He kept the legs in his attic for a
while. And he states that some of the other parts of the boy, he ate them. >> All right.
>> Well, he these are the murders that he was convicted of. There were eight of them. He went to trial six times to be
tried for eight total murders. >> Now, the thing here is he did confess to many more. He confessed to over 30
murders. Some of those were not brought to trial because of the statute of limitations.
>> Others they could not verify that he had actually committed the murders. Now, in
these cases that we just discussed here, now I apologize for the graphic details
and the graphic nature of some of those confessions, but these were statements that were taken from
>> It is a true crime show. >> Yeah, the these are statements that were taken from these trials. Um, and I did
summarize them quite a bit to leave out some of some of the other stuff that that just wasn't necessary. But the
thing here is not only do we see a guy confessing time and time again to to different murders and keep in mind these
are murders. Some of these are taking place in other countries and he's confessed these to his doctors and then
he goes forward and confesses them to the investigators and to the police afterwards
>> and then sometimes reenacting them. >> Exactly like you had said. They take them out to the scene. They they kind of
restructure everything. You know, we saw the one the one set where they built the
tent, >> right? >> And uh he's describing how he's stabbing the it looks like a man just standing
next to a tent, stabbing it. >> He starts grunting >> and you learn that inside there there
are people sleeping. Now, the thing here is we see these multiple confessions, uh
eight convictions, but on top of that, not only is he confessing to these crimes, but he's confessing that to them
in detail. You know, he's not saying, "Oh, I went out and I grabbed >> somebody."
>> Billy Bob, you know, just making up some random name. >> The captain >> and yeah, in in the middle of nowhere. I
don't know where I was. >> And I don't know what day it was or or what year it was.
>> Show comes out on Tuesday, >> but I killed these people here and these people there. No, we're seeing detailed
confessions where he's stating, you know, I picked up this specific person >> and this is how I killed them. I got
them into my vehicle. I took them elsewhere and I and I did what I wanted with them. Now, the other thing though
too here, Captain, we also see a victimology that is clearly all over the map. Uh it it sounds to me like his
ideal victim would be like a teenage boy or a younger boy. Uh but he doesn't seem
to be able to control himself at all. And and he he's killing adults. He's killing, you know, women, girls, boys.
It's the victimology is really all over the map. And he because of these confessions and because of these eight
murders, he becomes a bit of a a legend in Sweden. You know, they're they refer to him as Sweden's Hannibal Lectar. You
know, he's he's their most evil. He's their worst serial killer that the country has ever seen. You know, and and
the thing here too is some almost refer to him as the first serial killer. like like his crimes are so they're such a
large number of them and they're so heinous that if there were any other serial killers, they almost forgot about
everybody except for the very evil Thomas Quick. [Music] All right, we're back. Cheers, mates.
>> Cheers. Now, I tell you what, Captain, we have to talk about the therapy and the treatment that Thomas Quick was
receiving at Seder. And we touched upon it a little bit in the first half, and unfortunately, we had to go through all
the gruesome details of some of the murders that he confessed to, but these were ones that he was actually convicted
of. Mhm. >> Now the thing here is captain I don't want anybody to get the wild idea that
that this is our wheelhouse that we fully understand this type of treatment that he was receiving. But the basic
thought that I pulled away from what it was how it was presented to me was that because he was in this psychiatric
hospital because he had con you know he was convicted of violent crimes. You know, we saw the attack on the
9-year-old boy that took place at the hospital where he worked, right? >> We saw the the stabbing of the young man
that he met at the at the bar. >> I mean, that's basically two attempted murders.
>> Yes. Very, very violent attacks. Uh, in the first one, you could argue was a,
you know, it was a sexual violent attack as well. Mhm. >> So, the way that he's going to be
treated is they're going to be treating him for his sexual violence uh that he's
in for. >> And because of this, they might have some preconceived notions that he might
he might be guilty of some other events that that they are unaware of. You know,
if he was capable of stabbing a man 12 times, if he was capable of almost strangling a a young boy to death, who
knows what else this person could have done. Yeah. So they once they start treating him
>> and he starts coming forward with this idea that he may have possibly murdered
somebody and he wants to talk about that. Well, it's shortly after this that it seems like the floodgates just open
wide up and he and he and now he's he's said, you know, I've I've committed over
30 murders. >> I've been doing this since I was about since I was a teenager. I've been
killing people. And mind you, for a good portion of his adult life, he's in these
he's in this hospital, >> you know. So we're so we're talking about a a a specific window here where
he would have had to have killed over 30 people in several different countries. The way that I understand this therapy
to be is that once they come up with these confessions and they learn that he has done these terrible things, you
know, we we talk about he's confessed to stabbing people, to choking people to death, strangling them,
>> raping, and even eating some parts of some of his victims. >> Uhhuh. They start to say that, you know
what, this violent behavior, this sexual, this way that his sexuality and violence has all gotten mixed up
together must have stem from things that happened in his childhood. >> Now, I would say there's probably some
validity there. We have heard many serial killers come out and say that, you know, they they have sexual
fantasies and they all involve violence that that some of them can't seem to achieve gratification without the
violence in those sexual acts. And we even hear people talk about, you know, from a very young age that they had
sexual fantasies that involved violence. Well, what is the root of that is what they're going to look for. Where did
that come from? Why is this guy an adult and he's he's strangling people? He's killing people and he's sexually
assaulting them as well. >> Well, you're right. And their their theory is basically that this is
something that was learned or seen. They weren't just born with this, you know, appetite for a violent sexual appetite,
I guess. Right. >> Right. >> But that they saw something in their childhood. Maybe they saw their mother
being raped. And so therefore by seeing that event it caused them to want to go out and rape others.
>> So in some ways it would be a learned behavior, >> right? Or or in a way they're also
reenacting this trauma. So that's basically what it was is that because there was some kind of trauma that they
repress that image, they repress that vision and that memory and all that stuff and that we have to do this type
of therapy to make them be able to relive that trauma. Mhm. Yeah. Because until they can relive it, well, there's
no way to learn from it, overcome it, and become a better person. >> And the thing here is we we kind of
touched upon it a little bit in the first half, >> right? you know, where Thomas Quick
explains that he believes that the the reason for the double murder at the campsite where he where he stabbed the
husband and wife to death, >> that he believed that it was because of he had a nasty childhood growing up and
that in some way he was almost killing his own father and his own mother that that night at the campsite.
>> Right. Claiming that they're very abusive. >> Exactly. So now we should be clear here
though because these confessions, you know, it took it took lots of therapy, lots of sessions to get these
confessions to come out. And what ends up being presented about his childhood takes quite an extensive amount of time
to come forward as well. But with the help of the doctors, um he is able to to basically retell a a a traumatic event
that happened in his childhood. >> And this is supposed to explain to us why he is capable of these things as a
teenager and as an adult. >> Now, I I'm going to apologize in advance as we try to talk about this event,
>> but it is a true crime show. So, >> it's a true crime show. The first half was pretty gruesome. This next few
minutes might be even more gruesome. >> Um but but Thomas Quick starts to describe abuse that's happening at the
hands of his parents from a very young age and there is one extremely horrific event uh that that he that he brings
forward that is extremely traumatic and it goes something like this. He we don't
know at what age. I don't know that they were able to specifically say what age this occurred,
>> but young like six years old or so. >> He would have been pretty young at the
time. And apparently his father was abusing him, not just physically um but sexually as well.
>> Sodomizing them. >> During this event, he is being raped by his father. And for whatever reason, um, his mother goes
into acute labor. >> Well, yeah. So, he he is being raped by his father and the mother comes in and
she is pregnant at the time. And so, when she sees this event taking place, it's the shock of seeing, you know, her
husband raping her son that brings her into labor. >> Mhm. And this is a violent rape as well.
It's it's, you know, and the thing here is sends her into labor way, you know, way early in the pregnancy. Um, and the
baby is I I don't believe the baby is alive, >> right? Maybe it's still born or >> Yeah. But but the baby is still
attached to the mother. Um. >> Right. And what then happens is that the mother freaking out because of this
situation and and who knows what else uh starts to abuse Thomas as well. >> Um and this is physical abuse, you know,
violently hurting him as well as the father at the same time. >> And they the two parents react to the
birth of this this baby >> uh >> Simon. >> Yes. they they give the name Thomas gives the name of Simon uh that would
have been his brother. Um they basically start abusing the baby immediately after
the birth >> um to the point of dismemberment. Um and during the course of this they
are um >> just say it. >> Okay. uh they they the parents may have been consuming parts of the baby and
forcing Thomas to consume parts of the baby. >> And when he says consume, he means eat.
>> And and then the you know, let's just say what there what it is. I mean, you know, he's Thomas is now making these
crazy allegations about his family members >> and mind you that he has other he has
another six siblings. >> Correct. Yeah. And when this event is over, what happens is the father is
going to dispose of of Simon who was just born, >> right? And what he's going to do is make
Thomas go with him. They they bundle up the baby into newspapers and they head out to the woods and they bury the uh
the fetus into they bury the baby into the woods. >> Yes. Yeah. They wrap the baby up in in
newspapers and then they bury the baby at a place called Framby Point, >> right? And so then the doctors are going
to then start concluding, well, a lot of these crimes that he's confessed to, they they took place in the woods.
>> Mhm. >> So that would be the link there. Uh any of the pedophilia stuff or the sexual
fantasies towards children would be based off of the fact that he was raped by his father.
>> Yes. And then any of the dismemberments would have been the dismemberment of Simon. Any of the cannibalism would be
because of the parents eating parts of Simon or that he ate parts of Simon. He was forced to.
>> Yes. >> And the these are the connections they're drawing. Now, mind you, what the
whole time these investigations were happening, they're trying to explain this idea that all these thoughts are
repressed memories. Now, a lot of this doesn't make sense as far as the true crime listeners will go because, you
know, one thing that I I don't believe, but that's just because I have a horrible memory. So, if you ask me what
happened, if you ask me what case we covered 3 weeks ago, I couldn't tell you. Boys on the track. Um
but but most what we've seen through time and through the cases that we've done a lot of research on it seems like
these serial killers maybe they can't remember a lot of stuff that was going on that year but they could tell you
about that day and and and and a lot of details. >> Yeah. So what you know, so what these
doctors were saying and what these therapists were saying was well this is a whole different case and that this guy
Thomas Quick is actually he's repressing all these memories because he had this early childhood trauma that he
repressed. So he's repressing all the murders. >> Mhm. >> But uh so when he's telling you this
stuff and he's confessing to some of this stuff, some of the details are wrong. >> Right.
>> Right. So then now the investigators are going, "Well, uh, hey doc, this doesn't
line up." >> Mhm. >> And the doctors are saying, "Well, look, it's repressed. It's a repressed
memory." >> It's all coming back to him. >> It's all coming back to Thomas at the
same time that he's trying to tell you and walk you through what he done. You know that this this is this is a person
that's been traumatized over a lifetime. and because of this trauma has repressed
any horrific memory that he may have. And whether it's something he's done or whether it's something he's witnessed,
he's tucked those memories away even from himself. And now we are pulling those forward. We're bringing them to
light and he's able to tell us things that he has done and things that he has witnessed in his lifetime.
>> Right? And so what we have to do, this is what the doctors say. What we have to
do is these confessions are going to be a little different. We can't just sit down with Thomas and have him tell us
all the details and expect for them to be right. We're going to have to have a confession. You're going to have to talk
to him. You might have to interrogate him. Then we're going to have to go back to therapy.
>> Mhm. >> And we're going to have to try to get some of the more of the details out.
>> Yes. Because not only are these memories unclear to him, to Thomas Quick, but
there are so many of them that they could be muddled together and the details of such could be, you know, all
mixed up into one another. And we're going to have to really kind of pull these pull these apart and take what
what you know, what facts you know investigator about the case and what Thomas is relearning and what he is
remembering about himself and about his crimes. And we're gonna have to kind of we might have to fuse them together in a
way. Uh because >> do the best we can >> because we we know he's a violent offender and we know that he's he's
having these confessions and we know that he's he's he's confessing to people that we know have been murdered that
have either disappeared or they have been murdered. >> Now mind you, the whole time Thomas
Quick is not in a prison. He's in this mental facility and uh you know he becomes a star patient. He becomes a
person of interest. >> Yes. >> He becomes somebody that they they they want to talk to on a daily. Oh, and by
the way, you get some perks. Oh, you're murdering people. You murdered some people now and now you're telling us
about it. Oh, well, here's extra room. Now you got your room. Now you got a den. Oh, you need the internet to do
some research to maybe jog your memory. We'll get you the internet. >> Yeah. Where most of the patients would
have had a a a smaller room. Um, and like the captain said, it's not a prison. It's it's a it's a psychiatric
hospital. Um, it has been described by some of the patients as partly a prison, partly a hospital. Well, I it it looks
to me like there is some form of lockdown, you know, that they're not just roaming free out out in the public
uh and then coming back at night. No, they're they're confined to this property. Um but like the captain said,
you know, these these perks come in in different ways. And this is not perks for murdering people. We're not
rewarding you for murdering people. However, what we are doing, we're going to reward you for really working hard at
this treatment and really focusing on this and and bringing these things to light. Uh we're going to reward you
because you're working so hard on your therapy and you're working well with this treatment.
>> Right. And the whole time through this too, Thomas is is very heavily medicated. Uh taking medicine as much as
like 8 to 10 times a day. >> Mhm. For years, Thomas Quick was confessing to these murders. And between
the years of 1994 and 2001, Thomas Quick was convicted of eight of these murders.
Now, >> eight of the 30. >> Correct. Now, shortly after this, Thomas Quick goes silent. He decides one day
that he's no longer going to work with the investigators. Uh he's no longer going to help them solve their crimes,
their cases that they're working on. Mhm. >> He's not even really open to the same
form of treatment and therapy that he's been receiving for years at the hospital. He he basically shuts down. Um
and he he has stopped confessing to murder and he stopped cooperating with the doctors at Seder,
>> right? The doctors and law enforcement. >> And during this time, it's it's around
the same time that he now remember Thomas Quick was not his birth name. It was a name that he gave himself once he
started receiving treatment. And it's about this same time that he decides he wants to return to his birth name. He no
longer wants to be referred to as Tomic Thomas Quick. >> Yeah. And now he wants to be referred to
as Batman. >> It's during this time as well that he's going to start severely backing off of
this medication that he's taking. >> Well, he's probably on a bunch of stuff he shouldn't be on.
>> It's during this time that Thomas Quick, he sees a documentary. Now, this is very
interesting here, Captain, because it has a lot to do with with his life. >> He he's watching this documentary on
confessions, and it's murder confessions. >> It's why as basically why do people
confess to crimes >> to crimes that they have not committed? >> Mhm. >> And the the curious thing here is he's
intrigued by this documentary. And the documentarian reaches out to Thomas Quick. He had re reviewed
Thomas's story and watched some of the trials and he was aware of Thomas and he wanted to speak with him and he wanted
to find out more about Thomas's cases and his confessions and his memories. >> And one of the things that he actually
did was they took all the confessions and they took all the evidence and they actually gave it to a profiler.
>> Yes. Now, this profiler reviewed all of the statements, all of the documents.
Mhm. >> And he didn't believe in all of his experience, he did not believe that they
actually had something there that he felt like they were on the wrong track that this guy Thomas Quick may not have
committed >> any of these crimes, >> any of the crimes, let alone all of them. And it's through this
documentarian who reaches out to Thomas Quick. And Thomas is a he's not so quick
to respond to to him is what it sounds like to me. But they end up talking and they end up working together. And it's
through this correspondence that we learn what, Captain, that these confessions are a bunch of horseshit.
>> They're a bunch of horseshit, >> right? So where do we go from here? Well, Thomas starts by, and again, for
the sake of it, even though he went back to his original name, we're going to keep calling him Thomas for the sake of
the show. But so Thomas reaches out to his siblings. Uh, pretty interesting way to reach out to him. He he takes
postcards and he writes one word on it, sends it to all of them and it just says
sorry. Yeah. And I think you know the the reason why this is so heavy here is he didn't have a good relationship with
any of his brothers or sisters. It it seems like once he was locked up and especially after these confessions
started, >> right, >> that they all just believed their brother to be a very evil person that
they didn't want >> well not actually true. A lot of them actually just believe that he was lying
about all this stuff >> and and then some of the the ones that actually believe that he was lying
because he was confessing to crimes where they said, "Well, he wasn't in Norway at that time, so he couldn't have
done that." And I think what really got the siblings was when he started, you know, making allegations saying that,
you know, my my father raped me, that uh they had this unborn baby and they and they ate parts of the baby, right?
>> I mean, we're talking about some pretty crazy claims here. But whether they believed him or not, the thing here is
though he had some pretty nasty interactions with these with with his siblings while he was confessing to
these different crimes, you know, and and so even if they believed him or or or not, he was pushing them away. They
were already at arms length. He he was pushing them further away. They didn't have a great relationship when he
finally reached out to them >> apologizing with by just simply saying sorry, >> right? So, he's going to get a new
lawyer because now he's, you know, he's in this mental facility. He's not technically in a prison.
>> Mhm. >> U, but he's going to be spending the rest of his life there. But now that he didn't do these crimes,
I mean, he did do crimes, right? He we we do know that he tried to uh strangle a boy.
>> He was he was in there for good reason, >> right? So, what what we do know for sure
is that he did try to strangle a boy at his work. >> Mhm. >> Almost killed him. And what we do know
for sure was that that, you know, when he went to the gay club and they went back, uh, when he was huffing, whatever,
he was huffing, stabs the guy 12 times, left him for dead. So, there's two accounts of attempted murder.
>> Mhm. >> So, it's not like we're saying Thomas, oh, poor Thomas quick. No, you you're a
piece of [ __ ] before you went in there. Well, and the thing here is though regarding the lawyer, you know, he's
with with these murders, he's going to be granted appeals, and it's when he changes his lawyer that through the
appeal process that the new lawyer is able to point out that in most of these cases, I mean, I'm looking at all eight
of them right here, and it it's basically there's little to no forensic evidence in any of these cases,
>> right? >> All they had was his confession. In some of these cases, they never found the the
person that was believed to have been killed. Uh, in the in the one situation, remember where we talked about them
finding a very small bone fragment that could it was so small and degraded that it couldn't be tested for DNA,
>> right? >> It was later determined that that was not even a bone fragment. Uh, that they
were mistaken. Um, in in some of these other situations, you're exactly right with what you said about the his
siblings where they the new lawyer was able to show that Thomas Quick was not even in the area when where this person
was killed that he had a solid alibi for this time. And furthermore, when they really started digging into the
confessions themselves and reviewing them at at a whole rather than just what he's stating at trial, they learned that
many times he got details. He didn't just not know them. He got them extremely wrong. You know, in in one
case, the the the girl was beat to death with with what was believed to be a wooden club. Well, he had guessed
several different weapons before arriving to that conclusion. It's the power of suggestion. And we see it with
the doctors and we're seeing it again with the investigators. And the thing here in the beginning, he he didn't even
know that the girl was beat to death. He thought that that it was a knife or an axe that had had committed the murder.
>> Well, a lot of this is just a perfect storm. you know, it it was these doctors
that they believed they knew uh this cutting edge and and and we're going to uncover these traumas and therefore
we're going to be able to, you know, know why these things take place and we're going to be able to spot this.
>> Mhm. >> And so when he starts confessing to these crimes and they're not lining up,
like I said, as the law enforcement, they're going, "Well, wait a second, doc. This this stuff don't line up,
>> right?" Mhm. >> But then the doc's saying, "Well, but there's a reason for that." So again,
you there's a part of you that's like, "Who the hell do you blame?" You know what I mean? Like
>> I think it's everybody. First of all, the the the doctors shouldn't have been
>> so naive. They We see this all the time when with mental health. And I I understand. Again, I'm not a I'm not a
doctor. I'm a captain. But but you see this all the time where they have to try something first to see if it works.
>> Yep. >> And sometimes that you know so you got this guy that has issues. This Thomas
Quick has issues. First of all, I believe that he has uh pedophilia thoughts. >> Yes.
>> Those don't go away, right? So th those are there. Uh he tried to kill a guy. Now he's in this
mental facility. He's hopped up on some drugs and he's he's he's lonely. I mean he even states so he what he said was I
was a very lonely person when it all started. I was in a place uh you know where violent criminals and that that
that he noticed that the worse and the more violent and the serious the crimes that the more that the physicians would
take notice. >> Yeah. >> And so there's a part of me that look I'm sorry you're lonely but you confess
to these crimes and there's a bunch of problems with this. a whole lot of problems. First problem is that you sat
in the courtroom and these families had to listen to this [ __ ] that you were saying
and they had to relive this traumatic experience for them that you're just one just making up and
then on top of that. So they do get some closure at some point but then years later when you come out and just go just
kidding, >> right? Then they get then they relive the horror again. And the fact that, you
know, the statute of limitations is up. So there there's a bunch of these crimes
that law enforcement could have kept working, but they thought the case was closed because you confessed to it,
>> right? Yeah. The the thing here is regarding the family members, it's it's unimaginable that they had to sit
through a trial and not only hear these horrible things that he says he did to their loved one,
>> but then they're not even true. I mean, he completely fabricated these events
and they unnecessarily had to sit through something and hear that and lived with that in their minds and in
their memories and in their hearts for years and years and years until he says, "Well, I didn't do it."
>> Uh, and furthermore, they're never going to solve the the case of your murdered
loved one because I I took the blame and I got rewarded for it. And on top of that, now there's no there's nobody to
investigate this case now because of because the statute of limitations has passed. Um,
>> well, and >> it's it's it's suffering beyond belief. Well, to be clear to the listeners, so
then what happens is when they once they actually get the lawyer and they retry all this stuff, all all those charges
are dropped. >> Mhm. >> And and Thomas then goes out to the public and actually one of his brothers,
which I feel is >> it's very kind of his brother to say, "Well, you know, you are my brother. you
did all this stuff and I don't know why you did it, >> you know, >> but uh you know, we can try to rebuild a
relationship and they kind of do rebuild a relationship. My question is is why wasn't he charged for lying under oath?
Why isn't he charged, you know, for something for that, you know, wasting people's time um hurting family members
for no reason? >> Yeah, we want we want to be very clear here. We, you know, there might be some
people out there that are of the mindset that that Thomas Quick is some kind of victim in this whole thing. Um,
I I can't help it, Captain, but I don't feel any pity towards him. Um, >> well, no, look, here's here's the thing
that I, you know, I I can think of, you know, like we said, you know, to to be at a really young age and to discover
that you are, you know, homosexual >> in a time where that's not >> well received or welcomed at all.
>> Not only a time, but also the place. >> And I could not even imagine what that must feel like.
>> Right. And I think because he didn't know how to handle that and society wasn't accept accepting of that which
they should be and should have been that he turned to drug use to try to combat these feelings that he was having or try
to I think to just try to cope with it, self-medicate. Mhm. >> And that turned into again
that him attacking that boy is not a homosexual activity. >> No, >> that's pedophilia.
>> Yes. >> That and you can lock that guy up or you can put gasoline on him and light that
[ __ ] on fire. I don't give a [ __ ] >> Well, remember the the young man uh that
he stabbed 12 times. you know, this this is now a a very old man as well as Thomas Quick is, but he's
>> he's extremely angry that Thomas Quick is out and walking around. You know, he
he says, you know, this guy, he ruined my life. He stabbed me 12 times. >> Tried to kill me.
>> He tried to kill me. He hit organs inside my body with a knife. >> He left me there for dead. He's
physically changed me forever. And now he's out walking around. The thing is, this is such a tough case though,
Captain, because you know, you you you kind of sit on the fence and you wonder, you know, did would Thomas Quick, would
he have eventually went on to kill? I I think he was going that route. >> Yeah, I think he was going that route.
>> If he would have stayed on the drugs and the drinking and everything, it looked
to me like this was going to happen, that he might have potentially turned into the monster that he claimed to be.
Well, well, furthermore turned into the monster. I think he already was >> Yeah.
>> that monster. I mean, when you >> look, you any attack on a child, like I said, douse that [ __ ] and
gasoline. I don't give a [ __ ] you know? Got better things to do with my life. Um
th those people shouldn't exist to me. So anyways, but but yeah, so he has these things and they let him go and
maybe through some of the therapy he's reabil, you know, maybe he's somewhat rehabilitated, I guess. But uh and I and
the tough thing for us here, you know, we we normally do, you know, cases in the states.
>> Yeah. So, it's kind of hard to understand what their laws are and why this took place, but it's like and I and
I and and I'm all for the idea that some people just have some mental issues. And
so, that needs to be there there needs to be that separation where okay, yeah, this was a crime, but this was a crime
just due to mental illness. There you go. >> You go to the hospital, the secure hospital.
>> Uh, this one was because you're just a piece of [ __ ] You go to prison. >> Mhm. I I look I understand that but uh
but some of their stuff with Sweden I don't understand so it's kind of hard to comment on it.
>> Well and it's also pointing out the fact that we we have seen time and time again
in these different cases the ramifications of false confessions and this is kind of seeing it from a
different angle under a different light uh the way that it can affect people. >> All right. Well, but what are your final
thoughts on this matter? H I think we have a situation here where we have a guy that um you know people can people
falsely confess to things for different reasons. Sometimes it's because you have
an overaggressive investigator who's interrogating you and you're in a high stress situation and you're trying to
relieve yourself of some of the stress. Some people confess for that reason. for
the for here we see >> I believe somebody that was seeking reward >> and almost seeking to be a part of
something >> or be somebody >> or be somebody. You're exactly right. I don't know that he was seeking fame. You
know, sometimes people will confess to famous crimes because they want to be famous.
>> Well, I think he enjoyed some of that as it was happening, >> some of the notoriety that came along
with it. But I think ultimately he I I think we have a person that was on a bad road with with drugs and alcohol and it
was leading him to some extremely violent um and illegal behavior. And I think that it could have progressed to
murder at some point had he not been locked up and and started receiving treatment. The problem is that during
this treatment he starts confessing to things that he didn't do. Why? You know, at at the same time when he's
confessing, think about what's going on in the world. Silence of the Lambs was coming out. Jeffrey Dmer was was in the
news constantly. >> Yeah. Well, you know, one of the confessions, the one of the things that
he said he did to one of the victims was actually something he stole from American Psycho.
>> Yes. He's he's reading about this stuff and a lot of the >> But he's reading about that stuff cuz he
also had access to it. So, not only could he confess to something, he could actually look up certain crimes and then
when they start doing the trauma therapy. Oh, by the way, guess what? I just realized that this this crime that
I was looking up last week on the internet that you weren't monitoring. Yeah, I did that one.
>> Right. Right. And you're exactly right. He he was reading about, you know, finding these crimes in in old
newspapers and magazines and on the internet and he was he was getting some details about them and confessing to
them. And I think >> Yeah. And what they do, give them a larger room. Give them an extra room.
Give them the internet. >> And I think it's somebody that that was >> this guy's living better than people
that do podcast that did bad things and found themselves in a situation where they felt that, you know, they could
manipulate the situation and and receive reward by falsely confessing to things.
>> Well, let me tell you something right now. So, the doctors wanted to believe that they were correct.
>> Yeah. They wanted to be like these breakthrough. We're coming up with this this stuff
that's light years past anything you guys are doing, >> right? And the law enforcement wanted to
believe it. >> I think part that part I'm I'm not putting more blame on them cuz they're
trying to listen to doctors. But it's just laziness. You know, if that if it doesn't line up and he's confessing to
it, you go, "Hey, dummy." >> Yeah. This this doesn't line up. >> You're right. You're right. But it it
does get tough for these investigators that are being pulled aside by the doctor constantly going, "Well, just
give it a chance. Just give it a chance." You know, you're you're listening to another trained
professional. You you believe their opinion. >> Yeah. And and part of it is that they
also think they're doing a good thing. >> You know, like, well, you know, we're going to get justice for this family.
And so I I I feel for them on that part. Um but I think at the end of the day, uh
he has a lot of guilt. he has to deal with it and and what he said um because what is that documentary called because
people could check out that documentary if they're interested. >> Confessions of Thomas Quick.
>> Yeah, the Confessions of Thomas Quick. That's on Netflix. But what he said at
the end, which I thought was pretty interesting. He said, "I bear the guilt and will do so uh to my grave uh towards
the victim's families. They listen to me and my voice and my [ __ ] in the courtroom.
that guilt and dismay is something I will carry until I die. >> And as he should, it it offers no relief
to any of these families. But it it gives me some relief to hear that he is remorseful for this.
>> Well, and our thoughts and and our hearts go out to the families and and all the people that were affected by one
a tragedy, but then also the the tragic second coming of a tragedy because of Thomas Quick. Uh, and so yeah, he he
will have to live with that. And I I would not be surprised if he did commit a crime uh later on in life. Just
wouldn't be I I hope not. >> I hope he's learned his lessons. I hope he's >> rehabilitated as well.
>> Well, I've hope that he's dealt with some of his demons and and maybe with the support of his family and support of
friends that he that will stay on the right side of the law. And uh that wraps up this case, which is kind of
interesting for us because we've been doing so many two-parters. >> So uh but we'll be back tomorrow with a
little special >> a special episode >> 100th episode of True Crime Garage. >> A little party. We'll throw a bit of a
party in the garage tomorrow. >> All right. Do we have a recommended reading for this week?
>> We do, Captain. And I picked this one because, you know, we we we talked about
the Thomas Quick case. We see eight eight murder convictions where there's no physical evidence. So, I wanted to
pick a book that was more about physical evidence. And this is a great one. It's
by Dr. Wet and Donna Kaufman. It's called From Crime Scene to Courtroom: Examining the Mysteries Behind Famous
Cases. >> Interesting. If you think that the media has told you everything there is to know
about Michael Jackson and Casey Anthony and other famous crimes, think again. You'll want to check out this page
Turner from Dr. Wet and Donna Kaufman. Again, that's from crime scene to courtroom examining the mysteries behind
famous cases. And you can pick that up by going to our website true crimegar.com. Click on the recommended
page. check out all of our recommendations there and go through the Amazon banner and pick up those books
today. And thanks to all you fine, beautiful people for listening to the show. Congratulations. We're going to
we're going to hit 100 episodes and then we can quit. We will see all of you fine
people tomorrow in the garage for Big Show 100. Until then, it's my last show. Be good, be kind, and don't litter.
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Born Sture Bergwall, Thomas Quick was a chosen name. This man was also known as the Sater Man and Sweden's worst serial killer. He has been convicted of unspeakable crimes. He has confessed to stabbings, stranglings, rape, incest and cannibalism. But his confessions told us little about Thomas Quick and even less about Sture Bergwall. Tonight we review the confessions and the crimes and ask an important question. Who is Mr. Quick?

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Thomas Quick, a convicted murderer, falsely confessed to multiple crimes, raising questions about mental health treatment and the justice system.

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The Confessions of Thomas Quick. Thomas Quick, Sweden's most notorious serial killer, confessed to over 30 murders.
A Chilling Childhood. Thomas Quick's troubled youth set the stage for his violent future.
The First Murder. Quick's first murder confession involved the brutal killing of a young boy.
Double Murder Confession. Quick confessed to the double murder of a husband and wife at a campsite.
The Fifth Murder Conviction. Thomas Quick was convicted for the murder of a 9-year-old girl, Theres Johannes, in 1988.
Confession of Over 30 Murders. Quick confessed to over 30 murders, many of which were not brought to trial.

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