"I like doing things like this because you really go into the world kind of and try to embrace it understand it. And that s very interesting I think but it kind of haunts you. During the night, you wake up, and you think about it. And in this case, you know, it s kind of like a nightmare."
On the night of January 10, 2004, two members of the congregation, Alexandra Fossmo and her neighbor Daniel Linde, were shot in their homes. The shooter had entered Alexandra’s house that she shared with her husband Helge Fossmo, who was allegedly asleep in another room at the time, shot her three times, and then walked to Daniel Linde’s, shot him, and fled. Alexandra Fossmo died and Daniel Linde survived. Those are the facts that HBO documentary
Pray, Obey, Kill opens and closes with knowing for certain, even after five hours of intense scrutiny of phone records, crime scene recreations, and new interviews with members of the now-dissolved congregation. But although the May 3 final installment of
True crime documentaries are all, to some extent, attempts at recreation, and Pray, Obey, Kill explicitly highlights that endeavor, not only through staged dramatic sequences but via recurring shots of a miniature model of the remote Swedish village of Knutby where, on Jan. 10, 2004, Alexandra Fossmo was executed in her bed, and her neighbor Daniel Linde was also shot, albeit not fatally. Through those devices, as well as recurring scenes of.
HBO s Pray, Obey, Kill explores how Sara Svensson was manipulated into murdering Helge Fossmo s wife, Alexandra, in Knutby, Sweden, on January 10, 2004
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