Hannu Rajala

Movie - 2026, 2h 15m • as Self (archive footage)

Two people are searching for an injured deer at Gysinge bruk when they find a suitcase and plastic bags with dismembered body parts frozen in the ice. The victim is identified as a 23-year-old rock musician. Suspicion falls on the band's manager, who gives contradictory information. Leif GW Persson examines the murder, the investigation and the legal process.

Movie - 1994, 2h 15m • as Self (archive footage)

The Swedish dismemberment murderer Anders Carlsson (1942-2007) is presented and speaks freely about his life. Hannu Rajala was killed on November 27, 1987, in Anders Carlsson's apartment in Hässelby, Stockholm. Rajala's body was found dismembered in black plastic bags ten days later at Gysinge, some 150 kilometers north of Stockholm. On October 21, 1988, Anders Carlsson is sentenced to psychiatric care.