“The Breakthrough” True Story: Inside the 2004 Double-Murder That Inspired the Netflix Series (and Why the Case Went Unsolved for 16 Years!)
The Breakthrough follows a double murder that took 16 years to solve — much like a real-life incident that occurred in Sweden in 2004.
The True Story Behind Netflix’s Gripping Swedish Crime Drama The Breakthrough
The drama tells the story of a cold case that went unsolved for 16 years and the arduous journey to finding the killer.
The Breakthrough: Release date, plot, cast and more about Netflix's latest Swedish crime drama
The Swedish series is based on the true-crime book The Breakthrough: How the genealogist solved the double murder in Linköping by Anna Bodin and Peter Sjölund. It follows a detective who teams up with a genealogist to uncover the mystery 16 years after it remains unsolved.
Is Netflix's The Breakthrough based on a true story?
It is indeed. According to Netflix 's Tudum, the true-crime drama is "a fictional account based on the 2004 double homicide of Mohammed Ammouri and Anna-Lena Svensson. "The murders were unsolved for 16 years, until ancestral DNA genealogy led to a break in the case."
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Netflix’s The Breakthrough is a gripping crime drama inspired by the real-life double murder that shocked Sweden in 2004.
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7 chilling details about the 2004 double murders from The Breakthrough on Netflix, explored
The Breakthrough is set in 2004 when the Swedish city of Linkoping was rocked by the cruel murders of 8-year-old Mohammed Ammouri and 56-year-old Anna-Lena Svensson.
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