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STOCKHOLM — Sweden may soon get closure over the 1986 murder of Prime Minister Olof Palme after the lead prosecutor said he would either bring charges in the coming months or close the case.

Palme was gunned down in central Stockholm in February 1986 after an evening at the cinema with his wife. His death sparked Sweden’s biggest ever manhunt and a slew of conspiracy theories.

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A nagging sense of unease remains over the police’s failure to catch his killer, but prosecutor Krister Petersson held out hope that the case could be solved, saying he was close to wrapping up the investigation.

“We are now working on avenues that are very interesting and my goal is that during the first half of 2020 we will be able to make a decision on whether to prosecute,” Petersson, head of the Palme investigation, told Swedish TV program ‘Crime Week’.