The Keillers Park murder is an infamous Swedish criminal case. 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 Josef ben Meddour[a] (aged 36), a homosexual and Algerian national, who had been living in Sweden for many years.
After many months of investigation, the police were able to apprehend the two murderers. They were named as Jon Nödtveidt (aged 22), the frontman of extreme metal band Dissection, and his friend "Vlad"[b] (then aged 20), also a metal musician under the alias of "Frater Nemidial", and currently known as Victor Draconi.[2] The two men, who confessed to their crime, were eventually sentenced by a court of appeal to ten years of incarceration. Vlad was also a suspect in other murder and assault cases around that time.[3]
Nödtveidt and Vlad, who were members of the satanic cult Temple of the Black Light, had on several occasions discussed performing human sacrifices before they murdered Meddour. Whether the motive was occult-related or not could not be clearly established, however, and the murder was described as a homophobic hate crime by the Swedish police.
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- ^ "Mordet i Keillers park". Svenska Mord (in Swedish). Retrieved 8 February 2019.
- ^ "Frater Nemidial - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives". metal-archives.com. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
- ^ "Aftonbladet nyheter : Flickvännens blodbad i TV". members.tripod.com. Retrieved 8 February 2019.