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Days after the attack, Nils Gustafsson was re-interviewed by police, and at first he continued to claim he had really no memory of the night.

Remember, he had a lot of brain damage.

I mean, he was bludgeoned and his face was cut open.

Later, he claimed that he was attacked first and that's how he saw the man with the red eyes, but he was unable to remember the exact attack and what was going on.

After some inconsistent retellings, the police took a questionable approach, especially to today's standards.

They actually called in a hypnotist to try and get a description of this culprit from Niels.

So one of the doctors in charge of Neil's care at the time, it was a man named Yorma Apollo.

And he would go on to write three separate bestselling books describing his involvement in the case.

Uh, that also goes to show just how much interest the public had in this case and how long it went unsolved.

This guy wrote three different books about it.

Um,

But this is what Niels described during this hypnotism.

And Niels described the man, the attacker, as a stern-looking man with long, slicked-back blonde hair, large and protruding eyes, deep forehead wrinkles, thick lips, and a large nose.

So this description was used to make multiple composite sketches of the attacker, which are still available today.

and this was all done under hypnotism and notably these sketches of the man seemed to match the description given by the bird watching boys on the day of the murder um

Which a part of me is a bit iffy on because it's like, wouldn't Niels have heard how the birdwatching boys had described the man and maybe played into his hypnotism?

So additionally, these images had an eerie resemblance to another man on the list of potential suspects.

And this was the man named Hans Hassmann.

Hans was allegedly a KGB spy and a former member of the Nazi party who had been on the investigation's radar early on due to some suspicious behavior that took place at the time of the crime.

And that's allegedly a KGB spy.