Cats Falck

Who was Cats Falck?

Maureen Cathryn Harriet "Cats" Falck was a Swedish television journalist who, together with her friend Lena Gräns, disappeared in Stockholm in 1984 while she was investigating a scandal comprising the smuggling of weapons from Sweden to communist states in Eastern Europe. The dead bodies of Falck and Gräns were later found at the bottom of the Hammarby Canal in Stockholm. The deaths remain unsolved but later reports claim that they were assassinated in a state-sponsored operation by agents from East Germany.

Cats Falck was born in Enskede in Stockholm, Sweden. Falck and her friend Lena Gräns were last observed by witnesses as they left the restaurant Öhrns Hörn at the crossing of Folkungagatan–Borgmästargatan at Södermalm in Stockholm, at approximately 21.30 CET on 18 November 1984. On 29 May 1985, their bodies were found in a car on the bottom of the Hammarby Canal at Norra Hammarbyhamnen in southern Stockholm. The Swedish police, who had been working from several hypothetical theories, closed the case as an "accident".