Murder in the North

By Podimo

Murder in the North explores some of the most shocking murder cases in Scandinavia. Like the case of the young woman who set off from Tokyo on a back-packing journey across Europe in 1987, but whose adventure of a lifetime would end in tragedy in Copenhagen's cold waters. Or, the twisted tale of obsession that led two Swedish teenagers to organise an unspeakable murder over text message. Or the woman who mysteriously disappears one week before her wedding. Our account of these cases is based on sources in the public domain, including interviews, press releases and court proceedings to tells the stories of the most chilling and shocking cases to rock Northern Europe. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. New episodes are published every Tuesday. Produced for Podimo by Dag en Nacht Media. If you enjoy Nordic true crime, you can also check out the podcast Cold Blood from Podimo - available wherever you get your podcasts.

Episodes

25: The Inheritance

In November 1996, residents of the Copenhagen neighbourhood Vesterbro are woken up by screaming sirens. It’s not unusual around here, but this time it’s not because of a conflict between drug dealers. The police have received multiple calls from the same apartment building. Several people have reported hearing arguing, shouting and a loud, dull thud followed by a deafening silence. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Janne Aagard Music: Frej Levin Translator: Laura Vroomen Editor: Laura Kabell Produced for Podimo by Dag en Nacht Media

08/08/23•20m 1s

24: My Father Will Be To Blame

To those who knew her, news of the death of 14-year-old Sonay doesn’t come as a surprise. Both her teachers and child services tried their best to protect the girl but were ultimately unsuccessful. Sonay came to Denmark from Iraq as a nine-year-old and quickly assimilated into the new culture – much too fast, according to her father. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Janne Aagard Music: Frej Levin Translator: Laura Vroomen Editor: Laura Kabell Produced for Podimo by Dag en Nacht Media

01/08/23•24m 32s

23: The DNA Breakthrough

On a warm evening in spring 1998, ten-year-old Susan is keen to get out of the house. During dinner, she’s had yet another argument with her dad. Since the divorce, father and daughter are often at loggerheads. Now she’s begging him to be allowed out in this lovely weather. He wants her back at nine at the latest, but Susan will never return home again. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Janne Aagard Music: Frej Levin Translator: Laura Vroomen Editor: Laura Kabell Produced for Podimo by Dag en Nacht Media

25/07/23•20m 41s

22: Making a Killing

On September 27, 1965, Palle Mogens Fogde Sørensen becomes one of Denmark’s most notorious men. He goes down in history as “The Police Killer”. But who is Palle? And what drove him to pull the trigger that night and take the lives of four police officers? New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Janne Aagard Music: Frej Levin Translator: Laura Vroomen Editor: Laura Kabell Produced for Podimo by Dag en Nacht Media

18/07/23•22m 20s

21: The Woman Who Started The Fire

In August 1995, the fire brigade on the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea are called out to a house fire. When they arrive on the scene, they find a seven-year-old boy at the back of the house. He’s badly burnt. When asked if there’s anyone inside, he replies: my mother, my little brother and the woman who started the fire. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Janne Aagard Music: Frej Levin Translator: Laura Vroomen Editor: Laura Kabell Produced for Podimo by Dag en Nacht Media

11/07/23•21m 23s

20: Madly In Love

Being in love is a great feeling, especially when it’s mutual. In 2005, 24-year-old Freddy moves from India to Sweden to study molecular biology. In Gothenburg, he meets 20-year-old Jelena and he falls madly in love. With catastrophic consequences… New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Janne Aagard Music: Frej Levin Translator: Laura Vroomen Editor: Laura Kabell Produced for Podimo by Dag en Nacht Media

04/07/23•19m 50s

19: The Hunt for The Black Widow

The blurry colour photograph on the front page of a Danish tabloid newspaper shows an inconspicuous middle-aged woman. The media have dubbed her "The Black Widow". The day this picture is taken, in September 2003, she’s handed the toughest sentence available under Danish law: life in prison. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Janne Aagard Music: Frej Levin Translator: Laura Vroomen Editor: Laura Kabell Produced for Podimo by Dag en Nacht Media

27/06/23•24m 1s

18: Leather Gloves

Jukka, a child of divorced parents, grows up with his two stepsisters in Oulo, a city in northern Finland. During puberty he starts drinking alcohol, using drugs and stealing. He spends his time watching horror films and playing video games. But how does he then become one of the most notorious serial killers in Finland's history? New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Janne Aagard Music: Frej Levin Translator: Laura Vroomen Editor: Laura Kabell Produced for Podimo by Dag en Nacht Media

20/06/23•25m 16s

17: The Short-Tempered Serial Killer

In 1991 a brother and sister are stabbed to death in their own home in the small Norwegian town of Tistedalen. This double murder proves to be tricky to solve and the case drags on for years. Eventually, Tistedalen will become known for a spate of extremely violent murders and robberies. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Janne Aagard Music: Frej Levin Translator: Laura Vroomen Editor: Laura Kabell Produced for Podimo by Dag en Nacht Media

13/06/23•26m 8s

16: Tell Her Parents

A missing child causes feelings of helplessness and despair, especially among those closest to the boy or girl - parents, family and friends. But it can also have a profound impact on police officers, detectives, journalists and judges. In 1989, ten-year-old Helén disappears. Her family and the investigators working on the case have to endure a 15-year wait for answers to their questions. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Janne Aagard Music: Frej Levin Translator: Laura Vroomen Editor: Laura Kabell Produced for Podimo by Dag en Nacht Media

06/06/23•25m 0s

15: The Secret of Lake Bodom

On a summer’s evening 60 years ago, four teenagers camp out in a tent by Lake Bodom in Finland. In the early hours, they’re brutally attacked and only one of them emerges alive. His name is Nils Gustafsson and the events that night will haunt him for the rest of his life. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Janne Aagard Music: Frej Levin Translator: Laura Vroomen Editor: Laura Kabell Produced for Podimo by Dag en Nacht Media

30/05/23•22m 32s

14: Alias Natural Selector 89

Since the 1990s, violent computer games and aggressive music have been seen as the reasons for violence among young people. Meanwhile, experts urge the media not to describe suicides in too much detail to avoid putting ideas into people’s heads. But can murder really be contagious? New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Janne Aagard Music: Frej Levin Translator: Laura Vroomen Editor: Laura Kabell Produced for Podimo by Dag en Nacht Media

23/05/23•19m 11s

13: Messages from God

Nearly all the residents of the Swedish village of Knutby are members of the Pentecostal Philadelphia congregation. In 2004, one of them dies a violent death. But it’s certainly not the devil getting up to his old tricks. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Janne Aagard Music: Frej Levin Translator: Laura Vroomen Editor: Laura Kabell Produced for Podimo by Dag en Nacht Media

16/05/23•19m 57s

12: The Lonely Murderer

An old photo from the seventies shows an average middle-aged man. He wears a pair of dark-rimmed glasses and a white coat and his piercing gaze exudes authority. At that point nobody knows that a few years later this image will be published in all Norwegian papers. Arnfinn Nesset is suspected of murdering some 60 patients in only three years. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Janne Aagard Music: Frej Levin Translator: Laura Vroomen Editor: Laura Kabell Produced for Podimo by Dag en Nacht Media

09/05/23•25m 16s

11: The Family Conflict

In May 1999, Norway is rocked by a horrific triple murder. An elderly couple and their 47-year-old daughter are found dead on a small farm north of Oslo. The bullets were fired at point-blank range, execution-style. The victims were well liked and no DNA is found at the crime scene. Who murdered these three, and more importantly, why? New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Janne Aagard Music: Frej Levin Translator: Laura Vroomen Editor: Laura Kabell Produced for Podimo by Dag en Nacht Media

02/05/23•27m 53s

10: The Book Thief

When a 30-year-old student from Malmö is arrested on suspicion of stealing a large number of books, his packed fridge is found to hide a much grislier secret. This is a case that sent shockwaves across Sweden, terrifying everyone who read about it in the newspapers. It begins with the disappearance of a young woman in November 1979. She’s the mother of a young son, and her parents are so worried that they repeatedly beg Malmö police for help. The woman seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. Yet the police don’t seem to do anything. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Janne Aagard Music: Frej Levin Translator: Laura Vroomen Produced for Podimo by: Dag en Nacht Media

25/04/23•20m 22s

9: Death on Ward 26

In 1978, Ward 26 of Malmö East Hospital is hit by a mysterious epidemic that claims nearly 30 lives in the space of 3 months. All of the dead have a strange red rash around the mouth. While the hospital’s management is distracted by an internal power struggle, staff shortages and conflicts, a serial killer is on the loose; one of the most prolific killers that Sweden has ever witnessed. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Janne Aagard Music: Frej Levin Translator: Laura Vroomen Produced for Podimo by: Dag en Nacht Media

18/04/23•21m 15s

8: Heidi

One moment Heidi is playing in the sandpit, the next she is nowhere to be seen. When a child goes missing, there is great pressure on the police to investigate the disappearance. It’s crucial to find the child as quickly as possible. The more time passes, the greater the risk to their safety, and the harder it becomes to secure evidence and find credible witnesses. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Vivian Isabella Lamhauge Petersen Music: Frej Levin Translator: Laura Vroomen Produced for Podimo by Dag en Nacht Media

11/04/23•21m 2s

7: Jonna, Lovita, and Jonas: A Deadly Love Triangle

When a detective interrogates a young female suspect, she finally admits the truth. But her story is so horrific, it beggars belief. This is the story of a passionate love which turns into all-consuming jealousy. A love triangle with fatal consequences. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Anne Niluka Iversen Music: Frej Levin Translator: Laura Vroomen Produced for Podimo by Dag en Nacht Media

04/04/23•37m 48s

6: Murder at the Villa

On a grey November day in 1967, the doorbell rings at a modern villa in south Aarhus in Denmark. The lady of the house answers and lets a stranger in. Ten minutes later, the tastefully decorated home has turned into a crime scene, with one woman dead, and one badly injured witness. For fifty long years, police, journalists and amateur detectives try to uncover the identity of this mysterious visitor. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Vivian Isabella Lamhauge Petersen Music: Frej Levin Translator: Laura Vroomen Produced for Podimo by Dag en Nacht Media

28/03/23•29m 12s

5: Juha and Marita: The Bonnie and Clyde of the North

Juha is aware that he’s not like others. He’s different – or perhaps a psychopath. His girlfriend Marita knows it too. The pair – dubbed "the Bonnie and Clyde of the North" – go on a road trip together that will claim the lives of three people and lead to a manhunt across much of Scandinavia. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Emil Hansen Music: Frej Levin Translator: Laura Vroomen Produced for Podimo by Dag en Nacht Media

21/03/23•32m 37s

4: Bobby

This is the story of Bobby, a 10-year old disabled boy, who was vulnerable and lived an isolated life, hidden away on a farm with his mother and her boyfriend in a remote rural part of Sweden. Nobody knew what was going on behind closed doors, until it was too late. This shocking story became a landmark case in Sweden, instigating legal reform and changes to child protection protocols. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Anne Niluka Iversen Music: Frej Levin Translator: Laura Vroomen Produced for Podimo by Dag en Nacht Media

14/03/23•41m 58s

3: In love. Engaged. Gone.

In early August 2009, a young man named Mats - who lived in Falun, Sweden - called the police in desperation. He reported that his fiancée Linda Chen had gone missing. She'd left the house on a Saturday evening wearing the shoes she planned to wear for her wedding, but had never returned home. At first the police didn't take the investigation particularly seriously - since a missing person isn't necessarily a police issue. But a suspicion was raised a month later - when Mats also disappeared. The case highlighted how the killer is often close to home. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Anne Niluka Iversen Music: Frej Levin Translator: Laura Vroomen Produced for Podimo by Dag en Nacht Media

07/03/23•30m 22s

2: Kazuko: The Nameless Corpse in the Harbour

One morning in October 1986, the Copenhagen police receive a phone call from a distressed taxi driver. While standing in traffic near "Islands Brygge", he spotted something in the water: the the torso of a woman. In the months that followed, more body parts appeared in the water in Copenhagen Harbour. But detectives had no idea who the victim was. No one seemed to have known her. It would take over a year to find out who the victim was. New episodes every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Stine Angren Music: Frej Levin Translator: Laura Vroomen Produced for Podimo by: Dag en Nacht Media

28/02/23•30m 27s

1: Kiss of Death

A story of teenage love that turns into deadly obsession. On 30 April 2009, 15-year-old Therese Johansson Rojo shares a kiss with her classmate Tim at a party just outside Stockholm. Over the course of 38 days, what initially seemed like an innocent teenage flirtation went on to have dramatic and deadly consequences, culminating in events that shocked the whole of Sweden. New episodes every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Emil Hansen Music: Frej Levin Translator: Laura Vroomen Produced for Podimo by: Dag en Nacht Media

28/02/23•32m 21s

Introducing: Murder in the North

14/02/23•1m 28s