Explore 21 documented cases from Denmark. Each file separates established findings from allegations and unresolved questions, with a focus on investigation rather than graphic detail.
Former gang leader and radio host Nedim Yasar was shot in Copenhagen in 2018. Alexander Findanis received a final life sentence, while a second trial defendant was acquitted on appeal.
Open case file →Carla Clasen and her two-year-old daughter Natuk were murdered on Fanø in 1999. Sanjay Sharma was arrested in the United States, extradited and sentenced to life imprisonment in Denmark.
Open case file →Marie Lock-Hansen was shot dead at her Højbjerg home in 1967. East Jutland Police reopened the case after a 2018 tip, but the extensive new inquiry produced no evidence sufficient for charges and was closed again in 2021.
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Ghazala Khan was shot dead in Slagelse in 2005 after marrying against her family's wishes. Nine relatives and associates were convicted for roles in the murder and attempted murder of her husband.
Open case file →A nurse at Nykøbing Falster Hospital was initially convicted of three murders and one attempted murder; on appeal, the Eastern High Court found the death causation unproven and instead convicted her of four attempted manslaughters, imposing 12 years.
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The 18-year-old was murdered in central Copenhagen in 1990; later forensic work produced a DNA profile, but no offender has been convicted.
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Finn Nørgaard and Dan Uzan were murdered in attacks at Krudttønden and Copenhagen's synagogue; the attacker died hours later and a later accomplice-terror trial ended in acquittals.
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Two students were murdered and two others wounded before the identified attacker died by suicide; Aarhus University describes it as Denmark’s only school shooting.
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A 2016 Herlev murder was solved years later after litigation over undercover prison recordings; the Eastern High Court imposed life imprisonment in 2025.
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A 1990 Copenhagen murder remained cold for 34 years before a familial DNA search, preserved evidence and a footprint led to a 2024 conviction.
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Three people were killed in a Copenhagen shopping centre; the offender was found guilty and ordered to indefinite secure psychiatric placement.
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Dagmar Overbye took in infants for payment in early 20th-century Copenhagen and murdered children placed in her care.
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Marcel Lychau Hansen became known as “Amagermanden” after investigators connected him to a long series of sexual attacks and murders around Copenhagen.
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Peter Lundin killed his partner Marianne Pedersen and her two sons in Denmark in 2000 after having previously served a sentence in the United States for killing his mother.
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The Blekinge Street Gang was a clandestine Danish group that committed sophisticated robberies to finance political organizations abroad.
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A fire aboard the ferry Scandinavian Star killed 159 people in 1990, most of them Norwegian and Danish passengers.
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Twenty-two-year-old Mia Skadhauge Stevn disappeared after entering a car in Aalborg following a night out in 2022.
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Palle Sørensen shot and killed four Danish police officers during an encounter after a burglary in Copenhagen in 1965.
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James Schmidt was a Danish serial murderer convicted in the mid-20th century for killings committed across a period of years.
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