Royal Park Murder

The Gruesome Murder of Yvonne Jonsson

Theewari Dulandiya
1 min readAug 23, 2024
Yvonne Johnson was 19 when her life ended brutally.

On July 1, 2005, a housemaid climbed the stairs from the 16th to the 19th floor of the Royal Park Condominium Complex in Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka. The time was around 9:30 AM. As she climbed the stairs, she was suddenly shocked to see the body of a girl lying in a pool of blood with her face down. The housemaid then immediately alerted the manager of the apartment complex.

The body looked like that of a doll. I later managed to identify the body as that of Roger Jonsson’s daughter Yvonne. Her jeans had been pulled down to her ankles and wrapped around her neck. — The manager.

After that morning, the news flew like the wind across Sri Lanka, under the title Royal Park Murder. The Royal Park Condominium Complex is a luxury housing complex for the affluent in Colombo. Unfortunately, there wasn’t enough security for a girl in such a place.

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Theewari Dulandiya

Hello! After three-plus years of writing about true crime, I'm excited to announce that I've created my first crime-related newsletter, Crimewatch Chronicles.