When Hans Holmér heard the news of the assassination at 7:35 a.m., he was—by his own admission—at the Scandic hotel in Borlänge, 130 miles northwest of Stockholm, with his girlfriend Åsa. He had been planning to ski his eighteenth consecutive annual Vasaloppet cross-country race the next day, but instead he got into his car and returned to Stockholm immediately. By the time he arrived, he had been put in charge of the murder investigation.
