The 45-year-old is being detained on probable cause, suspected of both murders, the Ångermanland District Court decided.
For Barbro Öberg, it was important to be present at the hearing.
"I've always said that I'll be there the day they arrest someone," she says.
She received the news on Wednesday that the police had arrested a suspect. Before then, she said, she had long since given up hope. Now she is looking forward to the trial.
"I hope he is convicted and receives a long prison sentence. But there was someone else there, so they must get that person too," she says.
The now 45-year-old man is completely unknown to her, she explains.
"The first question I would like to ask is why? Two peaceful pensioners, as it were. No, I don't really understand. I just hope that we get an answer," continues Barbro Öberg.
Previous investigator: Unknown
Jan-Ola Nordin was one of the first police officers on the scene in 2005 when Tor Öberg and Gerd Wiklund were found murdered on a farm in Brattås outside Härnösand.
He also does not recognize the name of the man who has now been arrested for murder, either his current name or the previous names the man used.
"I sent it to my old colleagues who were there when this started, when people were being interviewed and talked about, but no one recognizes the name," he says.
"Gone under the radar"
DNA traces from the man were secured at the crime scene, according to the prosecutor. He was found after DNA-based genealogy was used in the investigation.
"It is possible that someone was identified but that the police's own DNA did not match, which is why this genealogy research was used. But he is unknown; he may have gone completely under the radar," says Jan-Ola Nordin.
He found out about the breakthrough in the case from Barbro Öberg, with whom he had been in contact even after his retirement.
"It came like a bombshell. After so many years, people had begun to despair."
The man has no previous convictions and was living in Härnösand at the time of the murders. Since then, he has moved and changed municipalities several times. He was living alone in an apartment in central Sweden when the police arrested him. The arrest was uneventful, the police told several media outlets. According to the Swedish Tax Agency, he is unmarried and has no children.
