About This Episode
"DEN NØGNE MORDER" — "The Naked Murderer" — is an episode of the Danish true crime podcast Danske Drabssager (Danish Murder Cases), built around the discovery of a young woman found murdered in broad daylight, and around a window of just 10 to 15 minutes that had been erased from one man's memory.
Those missing minutes are the heart of the case. The gap in time became a focal point for investigators at the time, and it remains the central mystery as the episode retells the story. How can a stretch of time simply disappear from a person's recollection — and what does that mean for an investigation trying to establish what happened in it?
The case is described as one of the more sensational in Danish criminal history, not only because of the killing itself. It spread fear and outrage across the country, and it was pulled into the heated public debate of the period about naturism and pornography, making it part of a much broader cultural argument than a single violent death.
The host is police historian Anders Brandt Lundager. For this episode he is joined by historian Frederik Strand, head of Politimuseet, the Police Museum in Copenhagen. Together they work through the details of the case, drawing on both forensic investigative technique and the historical context in which the crime unfolded.
Danske Drabssager is a podcast in which crime reporter Stine Bolther and other contributors go through real Danish murder cases from beginning to end. The series runs to more than 200 episodes and is published on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, examining investigations, forensic medicine and crime-scene technique alongside experts with close knowledge of the cases.
