The Peter Lundin Case: Denmark's Most Horrifying Triple Murder

On the night of June 16-17, 2000, Peter Kenneth Bostrøm Lundin killed cohabitant Marianne Pedersen and her two sons, Dennis (12) and Brian (10), in their home at Nørregårdsvej 26 in Rødovre, Denmark. The case would become one of the country's most horrifying and widely discussed murders in recent history.

Lundin, born February 15, 1972, in Roskilde, had a history of violence before the triple homicide. In the fall of 1999, he had violently attacked his wife Tina and her teenage daughter, leading him to relocate to Mændenes Hjem (Men's Home) in Nørrebro, Copenhagen. It was there he met Pedersen, a brothel madam and employee, with whom he eventually moved in.

The fatal night began with tension that had been building throughout the day. Lundin and Pedersen had attended a school party at Nyager Skole in Rødovre on June 16 with her two sons. During the event, friction escalated between them. When they drove home around 8 PM, the confrontation intensified—Lundin claimed he quarreled with Pedersen over her "speaking sweetly" on the phone with another man.

What followed was a brutal and calculated sequence of events. In a physical altercation on Pedersen's double bed, Lundin broke the necks of all three victims with his bare hands. According to his later confession, he did not initially intend to kill any of them, though the manner of death suggests otherwise.