the store or on her way home, or if she had decided to return home after her friends had left her. Shortly after 20:00 (CET), the time when Helén should have returned home, the family was getting worried, since Helén's friends had been at her home to ask for her. A search started, and more and more people became involved in looking for the girl. At 22.10, the police were informed and over the following days, the disappearance attracted a lot of media attention. Five independent witnesses had seen a young man, 20–25 years old, at the same place and time as Helén disappeared. One of them saw him force a little girl into his car. The witness has confirmed that the man did not look like the convicted man. Arrests A number of arrests were made over the years. On 22 March, only two days after the abduction and while the search was still on, a man living in the same area as Helén was interrogated by the police and had his home searched. He could not present an alibi but he was never declared a suspect of the crime. In 2002, the case was reopened with the intention of reviewing all the interrogation transcripts, letters and other available data. One revisited lead consisted of a man who was reported to have attempted a couple of rapes during the 1980s and who lived in the area. He had been with his cousin during the day of Helén's disappearing and the two men presented very different views on what they had been doing on that day. During the new investigations, a number of girls who had lived in the area and been 10 years old at some point during the eighties were questioned, and six of them mentioned being harassed or assaulted by the man. It could be established in 1989, that the two men had been at the grocery store at the same time that Helén was in the area and they had been spotted in their car, signalling with full beams and in other aspects behaving "very strange". Several other observations of the two cousins prompted the investigators to detain the two men in 2002. Eventually, the prosecutor determined that there was no reason to keep them in custody and they were let go. Use of new technology A small amount of sperm was found on Helén's body