Pray, Obey, Kill
Pray, Obey, Kill revisits a complex Swedish murder case from 2004 that gained global attention.
On a cold night in January 2004, gunshots rang out across the remote Swedish village of Knutby, home to a small, tight-knit Pentecostal congregation, leaving a young woman murdered in her bed and her neighbor suffering from multiple bullet wounds. Attention soon turned towards the community: the victimâs husband (also the sectâs pastor), the victimâs 26-year-old nanny, and the sectâs leader known as âThe Bride of Christ.â
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The case gained instant international notoriety when the nanny confessed within days, claiming she was told to commit the acts of violence through a series of text messages from God. What soon emerged, however, was a tale of a scandalous love triangle and details of another suspicious death that had occurred years before. Behind it all were the mysterious actions of the sectâs leader who exerted an increasingly powerful pull over her congregation.