About This Episode
"6. The Man on the Black Bike: 'Then he hurls my bike into the asphalt'" is an episode of Sagen Genåbnet ("The Case Reopened"), a Danish true crime podcast hosted by Jesper Vestergaard Larsen and Sanne Fahnøe. It recounts an evening in July 2023 when a woman named Katrine was cycling home through Nørrebro, a busy inner-city district of Copenhagen.
A man approaches her and asks whether they should sit down on a bench and share a cigarette. It seems harmless enough, Katrine thinks, and she says yes. But as they sit there, the man becomes increasingly intrusive. When Katrine finally turns him down, he loses control. The situation escalates so violently that two men have to come to her rescue.
Sagen Genåbnet digs into unsolved killings and reopens old cases with the help of modern investigative techniques. In this 25-minute instalment, the hosts focus instead on a single incident in which an apparently safe moment on a public bench turns quickly into something threatening.
The episode is number 214 in the series and forms part of the show's broader interest in criminal cases and in the mechanisms that can turn an ordinary evening dangerous. It sits within the podcast's wider theme of crime stories that illuminate both victims' own accounts and the potentially dangerous encounters that can occur in public space.
Sagen Genåbnet is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and several other platforms.
