The Atlas Obscura Podcast · Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Clark Olofsson, an accomplice in a 1973 Stockholm bank robbery, was acquitted due to being "set up." He later became a celebrity outlaw in Sweden, with a Netflix series made about his life. This acquittal is noted as a potentially controversial case.
“So at Jan's request, they free this man named Clark Olofsson.”
“Um, Clark was actually acquitted because the court basically ruled that he'd kind of been set up in the situation.”
“Um, but, you know, Clark went on later to become a kind of like celebrity criminal in Sweden.”
“There was a Netflix series made about him a few years ago.”