and the crime was not uncovered until the confession of the gang, following upon its arrest. The fifth and last murder was perpetrated on June 19, 1936, when the bank courier Edvard Pettersson was assaulted, robbed and murdered. Trial The Sala gang was disclosed when an acquaintance of Hedström got in touch with the police after having read about the fifth murder in the newspapers. Hedström had asked the man to join the gang in a robbery, but the man refused. The members were found guilty on February 22, 1937, and sentenced to lifetime imprisonment with hard labour. All of the members were released after having served between seven and ten years. Thurneman was pardoned and diagnosed as mentally ill, and imprisoned at the Asylum of Säter, and released in the 1960s. During the last years of his life, Thurneman worked as a translator in a suburb outside Stockholm, where he eventually died shortly after his 70th birthday. In accordance with his last will, he was buried in his birth city of Sala. References 1908 births 1979 deaths Male serial killers People convicted of murder by Sweden Swedish criminals Swedish serial killers