The Lundin Case: Crime, Investigation, Media and Evil
About the book
This book examines one of Denmark's most talked-about criminal cases from multiple angles – the crime itself, the police investigation, the media coverage, and the broader question of the nature of evil.
In 2000, Peter Lundin killed his girlfriend Marianne Petersen and her two sons, Dennis and Brian, in their apartment in Rødovre. The crime shocked Denmark, both for its brutality and for Lundin's criminal past in the USA, where he had previously killed his own mother.
The book not only lays out the factual circumstances surrounding the triple murder but also analyses how the Danish media handled the case. The media storm around Lundin was massive, and the book discusses the ethical dimensions of true crime journalism and the public's fascination with extreme crimes.
The work also engages with the philosophical and psychological questions surrounding evil – can people be fundamentally evil, or are there always explanations and underlying causes? Peter Lundin's case raises precisely these fundamental questions about human nature.
The book offers a nuanced look into a complex case that continues to fascinate and horrify the Danish public more than two decades later.
