Death In Denmark

The disappearance of a 45-year-old woman in 2013 started a missing person’s investigation that led to a grisly discovery. After her decomposing body was discovered in a container, the search for her killer began. What investigators were able to conclude about how the woman was ki ...  Show more

In Summer 2000, Marianne Pedersen, 36, and her two sons, Dennis, 10, 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 holiday. On entering the Pe ...  Show more

In 1994 a Summer heatwave prompted a young couple to investigate a foul smell, and what they unearthed was truly shocking: a tub containing a decomposing body. But who was the dead man? Who had killed him, and why? A full reconstruction of the incident finally brought the murdere ...  Show more

When a lifeless man was discovered in a Copenhagen office 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 ...  Show more

Death in Denmark revisits some of the most spectacular Danish homicide cases of our time, talking to those close to the crimes.