Keillers Park murder

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The Keillers Park murder was the murder of Josef ben Meddour (born 1960 or 1961 and aged 36), a gay Algerian man who had been living in Sweden for many years. On 23 July 1997, the body of an unknown man was discovered in a park in the city of Gothenburg, in western Sweden. The man, who had been shot twice with a pistol, was identified two days later as Meddour. After months of investigation, the police apprehended the two murderers. They were Jon Nödtveidt (born 1975; then aged 22), the frontman of extreme metal band Dissection, and his friend Nemisis Vlad Khosnood (born 1976 or 1977; then aged 20), a satanist who also used the alias "Frater Nemidial". The two men confessed to their crime and were sentenced by a court of appeal to ten years of incarceration. Vlad was also a suspect in other murder and assault cases and a domestic abuse case at that time. Nödtveidt and Vlad, who had formed the Satanic cult Misantropiska Lucifer Ordern (MLO), had previously discussed performing human sacrifices...

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