Cats Falck
 Cats Falck  (journalist) | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | 11 July 1953 | |||||||||||||
| Died | 18 November 1984 (Age 31) Enskede, Stockholm, Sweden | |||||||||||||
Cause of death | "car accident" | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | Swedish | |||||||||||||
| Victim of | assassination | |||||||||||||
| Interests | • Uwe Barschel • Bofors Affair | |||||||||||||
Swedish journalist found dead after investigation arms trade. Lacklustre police investigation of death.
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Maureen Cathryn Harriet "Cats" Falck (11 July 1953 – date of death uncertain, between November 1984 and May 1985) was a Swedish television journalist who, together with her friend Lena Gräns, disappeared in Stockholm in 1984 while she was investigating a scandal involving the smuggling of weapons from Sweden to communist states in Eastern Europe. The dead bodies of Falck and Gräns were later found at the bottom of the Hammarby Canal in Stockholm. The deaths remain unsolved.
Death
The Swedish police, who had been working on several hypothetical theories, closed the case as an "accident".[1] The initial investigation has been criticized because very few technical investigations were carried out, and several things that were never investigated.[2]
At the time of her disappearance, Falck was employed as a reporter for the Swedish public service television news program Rapport.[3]
Prior to her disappearance, Falck had told her work-mates and her fiancé (the author Lasse Strömstedt) that she was about to reveal "something big".[3] She also claimed that when the story broke, she would get Stora Journalistpriset, "The Swedish Grand Prize for Journalism". In retrospect, several fellow journalists have claimed it would be very strange for a journalist to not inform her superiors that she was onto something big. If she had informed them, she would have been given more time and resources to pursue the story.<ref name=p3dok>
References
- ↑ http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/tv-reportern-ville-avsloja-nagot-stort-1.489184
- ↑ Hansson, Kristofer (22 July 2007). "Cats Falck". P3 Dokumentär (in Swedish). 69 minutes in. Sveriges Radio. P3. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ↑ a b http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/tv-reportern-ville-avsloja-nagot-stort-1.489184
