Shortly after Gärdestad 's return to Sweden in 1986 , the Prime Minister of Sweden , Olof Palme , was murdered . Gärdestad was wrongly mentioned in the Swedish media as " the 33-year-old , " a suspect in the investigation of the assassination , which severely affected him although Gärdestad was on vacation in Greece at the time of the murder , and although he was never questioned by the Swedish police nor was under suspicion by the authorities , the speculations and rumours followed him and his family for the rest of the 1980s . A few years later , he was again the subject of rumours accusing him of being Lasermannen , a bank robber and serial killer . The rumours affected the sensitive and already unstable former star , and Gärdestad withdrew and fell into a deep depression
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Assassination of Olof Palme
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