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."
“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. Based on the 2021 novel of the same name, the Netflix ...
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