murder.
Quick stated that they had met Yenon Levi on a side street in Uppsala. His accomplice had spoken English to Levi, who then accompanied them in Quick’s car to Dalarna, where the two men murdered the Israeli.
Quick held him while the other punched him and struck him with ‘a heavy object from the boot of the car’. The body was left at the scene where the man was attacked, and it was not arranged in any particular way. The body ended up more on its back than on its side and definitely not on its stomach.
Quick mentioned that he has kept up with what has beenwritten in the press about the case, but he has avoided looking at the photos and he hasn’t read everything written about it.
Quick’s confession to the murder of Yenon Levi was not greeted with enthusiasm by the investigators. Seppo Penttinen told Quick that so much had been written regarding this murder in the newspapers that it would be difficult to say anything about it that wasn’t already generally known.
Once the preliminary investigation into Appojaure had been completed, further interrogation concerning the Yenon Levi murder was nonetheless carried out. Quick was now suggesting that he had been alone when he caught sight of Levi in Uppsala and convinced the man to accompany him to Falun. Close to Sala they stopped by a holiday cottage, where Quick killed Levi with two blows with a stone to the head. Afterwards, the body was dragged onto the back seat and the journey continued to Rörshyttan, where Quick turned off onto a forest track and dumped it in the woods.
The investigation into the murder of Yenon Levi was long-drawn-out and difficult for everyone involved. Quick’s account of the murder was constantly changing. Sometimes he claimed there was an accomplice involved, sometimes not. The actual place where the murder took place varied, as did the information about where he had first met Levi. Quick was even more confused about the murder weapon he had used.
In the early stages of the preliminary investigation, Thomas Quick had claimed that the murder weapon was a stone, which was incorrect. During further questioning, at various times he suggested that the murder weapon was a car jack, a rim wrench, a short-handled camping axe, an iron bar lever, a piece of firewood or a kick or two. All of these proposals were also incorrect.
Over the course of almost a year, Seppo Penttinen held fourteen interviews with Quick and carried out one reconnaissance of the crime scene and two reconstructions. During the second reconstruction, Quick referred to the murder weapon as ‘a sort of wooden texture’.
‘Do you see anything here that corresponds to the length of it?’ asked Penttinen, while at the same time indicating a measure ofabout a metre between his hands. Quick immediately went and picked up a wooden stick of more or less that length, which conveniently enough was lying nearby.
Christer van der Kwast did not subscribe to the view that Quick’s constantly changing story was damaging his credibility. ‘The difficulty has been that the memories of the murders have been fragmented and unstructured and that sometimes it has taken a very long time before he can piece together the various fragments into a cohesive whole,’ he explained, sounding very much like Quick’s therapists at Säter Hospital.
After one and a half years of therapy, police questioning and repeated reconstructions, Thomas Quick had managed to structure his fragmented memories into a more or less cohesive story: Quick and his accomplice had initially forcibly removed Yenon Levi from a train platform at Uppsala station to a car park, where he was bundled into the car. Thereafter the accomplice had kept Levi in check by holding a knife to his throat, while Quick drove them to the murder scene.
On 10 April 1997 Christer van der Kwast handed in a court application to Hedemora District Court. The crime description was short:
Thomas Quick took Yenon Levi’s life by blunt