Helge Fossmo
| Helge Fossmo | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Helge Arnold Fossmo July 27, 1971 Kristinehamn, Sweden |
| Occupation | Pastor |
| Criminal charge | 2004 - Solicitation of the Knutby murder |
| Criminal penalty | Life imprisonment |
| Criminal status | Imprisoned at the Tidaholm Maximum Security Prison. |
| Spouse(s) | Heléne Fossmo († 1999) Alexandra Fossmo († 2004) Unnamed spouse (2007-) |
| Children | 3 |
Helge Arnold Fossmo (born 27 July 1971) is a pentecostal pastor sentenced to life imprisonment for solicitation of the Knutby murder in Sweden in 2004.
Helge Fossmo originated from the village of Björneborg, close to Kristinehamn in Värmland County. His parents were Norwegian. The family was not particularly religious, but when he was about ten years old Helge joined the scouting organization of the Mission Covenant Church in Björneborg. Not long before he turned twelve he became a "born again" Christian. He went to highschool in Kristinehamn. He volunteered in a Christian youth café. At age 17 he met Heléne Johansson, his future wife. In 1989 he joined the Pentecostal church of Kristinehamn, where also Heléne was a member. After graduation, he studied in Karlstad to become a science teacher, but he dropped out. For a while he worked as a teacher in his old school in Björneborg.
In the spring of 1993 Helge Fossmo was involved with Jaspis. In Kristinehamn this was a small group inspired by Ulf Ekman's Livets Ord, part of the Word of Faith movement. After a few months, however, he left Jaspis and rejoined the pentecostal church. He was then employed as a youth pastor. In May 1995, he organized a march for Jesus. The Christian newspaper Dagen published Fossmo's experience of xenoglossy.
Fossmo met Åsa Waldau for the first time in August 1993. The main pastor Claes Frankner had invited her to Kristinehamn from Knutby. His son Samuel was already an adherent of Waldau's and moved to Knutby in 1994. The Fossmos moved there in August 1997 with their two children (a third child was born in Knutby).
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