The drama tells the story of a cold case that went unsolved for 16 years and the arduous journey to finding the killer.

Peter Eggers as John and Mattias Nordkvist as Per in Netflix's series 'Breakthrough' (2025).

Her character may be loosely inspired by Anna Bodin, a real-life journalist who has reported for Dagens Nyheter since 1998 and co-authored the book The Breakthrough with Peter Sjölund ...

Still from the show (Image via Netflix) In The Breakthrough, most of the characters are based on real-life individuals connected to the murders. The real-life victims of the incident were 8-year ...

While in that instance, police leveraged the genealogy website 23andme to solve its crime, Swedish police in The Breakthrough’s real-life case used DNA swabs from volunteers to establish a link ...

In 1908 a young English college graduate gave up a potential career and fame to serve as a missionary in the remote regions of China But after six years there was little response and the mission ...

Netflix's new Swedish crime drama The Breakthrough has been an instant hit ... homicide and the events that followed were based on a real-life story. The opening card does state that "on Tuesday ...