Peter Lundin

Peter Lundin (* 1972 in Denmark ) is a convicted Danish serial killer .

First murder and imprisonment

Lundin was born in Denmark as the first child of the Dane Ole Lundin and the German Anna Schaftner. After their home was foreclosed, the family moved to Florida in the United States , where Lundin's father had a second home and where they lived with financial help from their grandparents. Lundin was already noticed in his youth for violent crimes and theft .

On April 7, 1991, he strangled his mother because she wanted to cut his hair and then broke her neck. With the help of his father, he buried the body on a beach in North Carolina more than 700 km away . In November of the same year, the body was discovered and Lundin and his father were arrested in Canada , where they had fled. In 1992 Lundin was sentenced to 15 to 20 years imprisonment for murder, and his father received two years imprisonment for complicity.

Lundin became known through an interview he gave to Danish television while in custody in 1994. During the conversation he painted one half of his face black and the other half white to represent the two sides of his character. His explanations in the interview were very self-centered and sometimes so confused that a psychologist then declared him a pronounced psychopath . He also fulfilled 39 out of 40 possible points on the psychopathy checklist according to Robert D. Hare .

After the interview, Lundin received mail from women who proposed marriage to him. After a short time he married a 33-year-old Danish woman in prison and was released early due to prison reform and marriage after only seven years in prison and expelled to Denmark, where he moved in with his wife.

Triple murder and re-imprisonment

In freedom, however, he became violent again and beat his wife and their daughter, which she expelled from the house. Lundin then met 36-year-old Marianne Pedersen and her two sons, 12-year-old Brian and 10-year-old Dennis, and moved to live with them in Rødovre, near Copenhagen . Because he regularly beat and stole from Marianne, there was a heated argument on June 16, 2000 after the two children went to school, whereupon Peter Lundin pounced on Marianne first, then on the children, breaking everyone's neck with his bare hands. He then used an ax and an angle grinder to cut up all three corpses in the house's bathtub, before freezing the body parts in plastic bags in a freezer. With the help of his father, he then disposed of the bags in the garbage, which was then transported to the waste incineration plant and destroyed.

Lundin was arrested on July 4, 2000, and his father was arrested and interrogated on July 11, 2000. An ax and an angle grinder with traces of blood from all three victims were found in the men's house, and traces of blood from the victims were also found in the Pedersen's house. The two men had also been watched by neighbors as they disposed of the plastic bags in the garbage after the time of the crime. Lundin confessed on October 19, 2000 and showed the police at an on-site visit how he broke the necks of his victims and mutilated the bodies. On March 15, 2001, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. His father denied helping remove the bodies, arguing that he did not know what was in the bags. Since the court could not prove complicity, but found Pedersen's items in his house, he was sentenced to four months in prison for theft only.

In the summer of 2008, Lundin remarried in prison and became a father, also changing his name to Bjarne Skounborg. He got into the headlines again because of numerous self-recorded cassette tapes, backed up with panpipe music, on which he described in English why and how he murdered the Pedersens. His tapes were shown to the public through the media in order to ensure that Lundin is no longer released from prison.

literature

• Say Lundin. Forbrydelsen, opklaringen, medierne og ondskaben (The Lundin Case. The crime, the investigation, the media, and the evil) by Palle Bruus Jensen, 2003
• Micael Dahlén, Monsters. Rendezvous with five murderers, Frankfurt am Main, New York 2014, pp. 49–72.

Web links

• The Peter Lundin case in Scandinavian criminal cases
• The Peter Lundin case on TV2 (Danish)