The Laser Man: John Ausonius and the Hunt That Terrorized Sweden
Stockholm, August 1991. A red dot appears on a young man’s back. Then a shot. Over six months, eleven people — almost all immigrants — are gunned down in Stockholm and Uppsala. One does not survive.
Host Alexander Lawson tells the story of John Ausonius, the bank robber and far-right shooter the Swedish press named Lasermannen. Born Wolfgang Zaugg to immigrant parents, he changed his name, dyed his hair, and set out to scare people like his childhood self out of the country — first with a laser-sighted rifle, then a revolver, and on a bicycle between bank jobs.
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