Peter Lundin - Second Conviction

Second Conviction

After returning to Denmark, Lundin moved in with his wife in Måløv, but she kicked him out because he was violent with her. He met a woman called Marianne Pedersen, who worked in a brothel. Pedersen and her two sons, who were living in Rødovre near Copenhagen, were declared missing on July 3, 2000, and Lundin initially claimed that they had left on vacation and he had agreed to paint their house. Police discovered blood traces in Pedersen's car and the basement of her house on July 5, 2000, and Lundin was promptly arrested. Further examinations of the house led to the conclusion that Pedersen and her sons had been killed and dismembered. The detective in charge of the investigation, Niels Kjøller of the Hvidovre Police Department, described the basement and garage of the house as resembling "slaughterhouses", despite Lundin's attempts to clean the crime scene. Discovery of human tissue revealed that Lundin had used an angle grinder, and more than 100 visible markings in the floors revealed that he had also used an axe.

Three weeks later, Lundin changed his statement, claiming he heard screaming on the night of the crime and discovered that Pedersen had killed her sons. He found her passed out on drugs and fatally hit her, after which he dismembered the bodies. He claimed to have withheld this information because he knew the police wouldn't believe him because of his criminal past. On October 10, 2000, Lundin again changed his statement, this time admitting to the murders. He admitted to first killing Pedersen because she had been "talking sweetly" to a man on the telephone, on the night between June 16–17, 2000, then killing her sons. All three died of broken necks.

In 2001, a jury sentenced Lundin to life imprisonment for the crime. In spite of extensive searches, the dismembered bodies have never been found. Lundin's father, Ole, was sentenced to four months in prison for theft of items owned by Pedersen. Peter Lundin was found not to be insane. He initially served his sentence in the Herstedvester prison in Albertslund near Copenhagen, but was later transferred to the new State Prison of East Jutland near Horsens, and then returned to Herstedvester prison again.