About This Episode
"2. Love and Violence: Jesper Was Beaten as a Child" is an episode of the Danish true crime podcast Sagen Genåbnet, which digs into unsolved killings and reopens old cases using modern investigative techniques. The episode tells the story of Julie, who in 2003, at the age of 23, began a relationship with a man she had already known for some time.
The relationship starts with a stream of affectionate messages and quickly turns serious. But gradually he shows another side of himself, and over the next two years Julie experiences what she today describes as extensive psychological violence. Step by step, the psychological abuse also turns physical.
The episode carries a warning that it describes both psychological and physical violence. It follows how the relationship develops from declarations of love into a pattern that Julie was only able to put into words much later.
The episode is number 211 of Sagen Genåbnet and runs for 33 minutes.
