Murder Most Foul – July 2018

innocent – I’m living in a hell,” she said.

In February 2017, six months after

being arrested, Rajabi confessed. “She

instructed and directed him,” said the

prosecutor Jessica Wenna. By this point,

Johanna and Rajabi had long since

broken up – if they ever had truly been

an item.

He had resisted her, Rajabi said, but

Johanna was persistent. “You have to

go and kill my parents,” he claimed she

demanded. Johanna had driven him

there in her car and handed him the

knife. He had taken some drugs to calm

himself and had set about the task.

I

n August 2017 at the Västmanland

District Court, Johanna, dressed

casually, looked relaxed as the

prosecution presented its case. A video

showed a reconstruction of the attack

with Rajabi in his real-life role of the

killer. Members of the court gasped

when the blows were struck. Johanna

shed a trickle of tears.

A meticulous dissection of Johanna’s

financial records showed that in 2016

she spent many times more than she

had earned. Without her parents’

support, she would have sunk without

trace.

More painful, perhaps, were the

testimonies from Johanna’s family, all of

whom had seemingly turned their backs

on her. Johanna’s mother said: “I loved

my daughter, but I can never, never

forgive her for what she did. She has

taken half my family.”

She said that Johanna had visited her

parents the day before the attack and

left saying she would visit again the

next day. Her mother believes this was

part of a plan to appear to be the victim

of a tragedy. “She would come to the

fathers and was a trained social worker.
Although she had once been a decent
gymnast, her skills now tended towards
more domestic concerns.
Johanna asked her father to help her
start a company that helped refugees to
integrate into society. He was willing to
do so and the business was profitable
but Johanna reportedly squandered any
money the business made – and any
loans the family gave her – on luxuries.
This led to friction within the family.
Mohammad Rajabi, an Afghan
refugee, had arrived in 2015 via Iran
and was processed through Johanna’s
agency. Johanna was immediately
attracted to the muscular, cheerful
young man and she moved him into her
apartment. Göran didn’t approve.
In September 2016, Johanna and
Rajabi were charged with Göran’s
murder and a number of other offences.
Johanna threatened the officers who
questioned her. “I hope the hospital
has bought extra wheelchairs because
there are a lot of people who are going
to have their knees broken after this –
everyone who hurts me,” she said.
She was held on remand and
complained bitterly about the conditions.
She even wrote a letter to a Swedish
national newspaper about it. “I’m

Above left, Mohammad Rajabi

seen in a reconstruction of

the murder. Above, Johanna’s

father Göran Möller. Below left,

bloodstains at the scene