Short Biography: Thomas Quick
He is known as Thomas Quick but was born with the name Sture Bergwall. He adopted his new name by taking Thomas, the name of his first victim and Quick his mother's maiden name. He believed the name he was originally born with was not a name for a serial killer. He used Thomas Quick as his evil alter ego. Born on April 20, 1950 in a rural city named Falum. He grew up in a house with seven siblings with three sisters and four brothers. Being born only ten minutes before his twin sister. His mother was a school caretaker while his father was a working man. His father battled with depression and was always known as being absent or sad therefore making the mother try to take care of everything including all her children by herself. This created
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The story as stated goes his mother and father were arguing. His mother goes into labor, giving birth to Quick’s brother Simon but suddenly his father and mother are tearing into the limbs of Simon and when he goes to reach for his brother's lifeless arm, he realizes it is detached and his mother and father proceeds to make Quick eat the flesh of his own baby brother. Psychiatrist believes this was a huge breakthrough in the discovery of serial killers because all of Quicks supposed murders had the involvement of consuming flesh and young boys. They tried bringing these two connections into own. Quicks remains to stick with this supposed story, but all his other siblings say …show more content…
This showed how rigid the justice system was and how much faith law enforcement could put on taking the word of Margit Norell over the evidence clearly showcasing Quicks innocence. After the deep investigation finding no eyewitness, no murder weapons and no traces of DNA Thomas Quick finally admitted that he had fabricated all the crimes. The reason he had made such a horrid gruesome story up was that he finally felt a sense of belonging and a sense of importance. He explains being amongst so many criminals who had done such horrible things, he was unable to compete. He witnessed all the criminals who had done such horrible crimes receiving attention. Therefore he wants to create himself as the worse serial killer, just to receive attention.(Taleb, A., & Ahlstrand,
The story as stated goes his mother and father were arguing. His mother goes into labor, giving birth to Quick’s brother Simon but suddenly his father and mother are tearing into the limbs of Simon and when he goes to reach for his brother's lifeless arm, he realizes it is detached and his mother and father proceeds to make Quick eat the flesh of his own baby brother. Psychiatrist believes this was a huge breakthrough in the discovery of serial killers because all of Quicks supposed murders had the involvement of consuming flesh and young boys. They tried bringing these two connections into own. Quicks remains to stick with this supposed story, but all his other siblings say …show more content…
This showed how rigid the justice system was and how much faith law enforcement could put on taking the word of Margit Norell over the evidence clearly showcasing Quicks innocence. After the deep investigation finding no eyewitness, no murder weapons and no traces of DNA Thomas Quick finally admitted that he had fabricated all the crimes. The reason he had made such a horrid gruesome story up was that he finally felt a sense of belonging and a sense of importance. He explains being amongst so many criminals who had done such horrible things, he was unable to compete. He witnessed all the criminals who had done such horrible crimes receiving attention. Therefore he wants to create himself as the worse serial killer, just to receive attention.(Taleb, A., & Ahlstrand,