Triakel Östersundsmordet

The song Östersundsmordet is the true story about a murder in our hometown Östersund, Sweden. On the 30th April 1890 the young wife Edla Hedin, who was in an advanced state of pregnancy, stabbed her husband to death. She had made two attempts to poison him before but this time she decided to finish the job once and for all. The motive was said to be that she had been forced into marriage because she was pregnant, while she was really in love with another man. The local newspaper referred to a murderous urg