DEATH IN DENMARK
BAUER MEDIA IN COLLABORATION WITH TRUE CRIME AGENCY
This month, we bring you a brand-new crime podcast. The most shocking murder investigations in Denmark’s history are retold by host Stine Bolther, accompanied by a group of experts who were intimately involved with each case. Here, we give you a taster of the first four episodes of Death In Denmark.
Episode 2: The Missing Family
While each episode retains anonymity for the victims and the perpetrators, serial killer Peter Lundin is the exception. In the summer of 2000, Marianne Pedersen, 36, and her two sons, Dennis, ten, and 12-year-old Brian, went missing. After her stepson was unable to reach the family, he alerted authorities that there was a suspicious note on her front door saying she had gone on vacation. On entering the Pedersen home, police found blood splattered across the house. Investigators quickly identified Marianne’s new partner Lundin as the prime suspect. Marianne had been unaware that her lover had a dark and disturbing past. Lundin had been extradited back to Denmark after serving six years in the US for murdering his mother when he was 19 years old. Further forensic investigations of the Pedersen home led investigators to conclude that, while no bodies were found, the family had been killed and dismembered in the basement, and Lundin was arrested for their murder.
Consistently changing his story, Lundin claimed at one point that it was Marianne who had murdered her sons, and that he had killed her in retaliation. He told police that he then dismembered the bodies because he feared they would not believe his story because of his criminal past. It was the jury who did not believe Lundin’s story of events, and he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the triple murder. The episode features forensic scientist
Bent Hythlom and forensic pathologist Hans Petter Hougen, who describe how they worked tirelessly to piece together what happened to the family. HHHHH
When a lifeless man was discovered in a Copenhagen office building in 2017, investigators were desperate to find out how he had died. The police relied heavily on CCTV evidence to trace his final moments and unmask his killer, but a key witness was about to come forward. Lawyer Jakob Buch-Jepsen and professor of forensic medicine Hans Petter Hougen describe how vital evidence from his final moments played a crucial role in the trial.