Biography

Catrine da Costa was a Swedish woman that was last seen alive around June 10, 1984. Parts of her dismembered body was found on July 18, 1984, under a highway overpass in Solna, just outside Stockholm. On Oct. 6, 1987, Teet Härm and Thomas Allgén are being arrested and charged. The two are sentenced for murder by the District Court of Stockholm on March 8, 1988. Catrine Bäckström was born in Luleå, 725 km North of Stockholm. As a child she moved to Stockholm and lived with her mother. In Portugal 1979 she met Joao da Costa who she married in 1982. The couple had a son who were taken care of by social authorities in Sweden. Shortly before Catrine da Costa's disappearance in June 1984 she was making ready to move to Portugal.
- IMDb mini biography by: Da Costa archive