Murder in the North

Episodes

1. 25: The Inheritance

   8 Aug 2023 · 20 min · Episode 25

   In November 1996, residents of the Copenhagen neighbourhood Vesterbro are woken up by screaming sirens. It’s not unusual around here, but this time it’s not because of a conflict between drug dealers. The police have…

2. 24: My Father Will Be To Blame

   1 Aug 2023 · 25 min · Episode 24

   To those who knew her, news of the death of 14-year-old Sonay doesn’t come as a surprise. Both her teachers and child services tried their best to protect the girl but were ultimately unsuccessful. Sonay came to…

3. 23: The DNA Breakthrough

   25 Jul 2023 · 21 min · Episode 23

   On a warm evening in spring 1998, ten-year-old Susan is keen to get out of the house. During dinner, she’s had yet another argument with her dad. Since the divorce, father and daughter are often at loggerheads. Now…

4. 22: Making a Killing

   18 Jul 2023 · 22 min · Episode 22

   On September 27, 1965, Palle Mogens Fogde Sørensen becomes one of Denmark’s most notorious men. He goes down in history as “The Police Killer”. But who is Palle? And what drove him to pull the trigger that night and…

5. 21: The Woman Who Started The Fire

   11 Jul 2023 · 21 min · Episode 21

   In August 1995, the fire brigade on the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea are called out to a house fire. When they arrive on the scene, they find a seven-year-old boy at the back of the house. He’s badly…

6. 20: Madly In Love

   4 Jul 2023 · 20 min · Episode 20

   Being in love is a great feeling, especially when it’s mutual. In 2005, 24-year-old Freddy moves from India to Sweden to study molecular biology. In Gothenburg, he meets 20-year-old Jelena and he falls madly in love.…

7. 19: The Hunt for The Black Widow

   27 Jun 2023 · 24 min · Episode 19

   The blurry colour photograph on the front page of a Danish tabloid newspaper shows an inconspicuous middle-aged woman. The media have dubbed her "The Black Widow". The day this picture is taken, in September 2003,…

8. 18: Leather Gloves

   20 Jun 2023 · 25 min · Episode 18

   Jukka, a child of divorced parents, grows up with his two stepsisters in Oulo, a city in northern Finland. During puberty he starts drinking alcohol, using drugs and stealing. He spends his time watching horror films…

9. 17: The Short-Tempered Serial Killer

   13 Jun 2023 · 26 min · Episode 17

   In 1991 a brother and sister are stabbed to death in their own home in the small Norwegian town of Tistedalen. This double murder proves to be tricky to solve and the case drags on for years. Eventually, Tistedalen…

10. 16: Tell Her Parents

    6 Jun 2023 · 25 min · Episode 16

    A missing child causes feelings of helplessness and despair, especially among those closest to the boy or girl - parents, family and friends. But it can also have a profound impact on police officers, detectives,…

11. 15: The Secret of Lake Bodom

    30 May 2023 · 23 min · Episode 15

    On a summer’s evening 60 years ago, four teenagers camp out in a tent by Lake Bodom in Finland. In the early hours, they’re brutally attacked and only one of them emerges alive. His name is Nils Gustafsson and the…

12. 14: Alias Natural Selector 89

    23 May 2023 · 19 min · Episode 14

    Since the 1990s, violent computer games and aggressive music have been seen as the reasons for violence among young people. Meanwhile, experts urge the media not to describe suicides in too much detail to avoid putting…

13. 13: Messages from God

    16 May 2023 · 20 min · Episode 13

    Nearly all the residents of the Swedish village of Knutby are members of the Pentecostal Philadelphia congregation. In 2004, one of them dies a violent death. But it’s certainly not the devil getting up to his old…

14. 12: The Lonely Murderer

    9 May 2023 · 25 min · Episode 12

    An old photo from the seventies shows an average middle-aged man. He wears a pair of dark-rimmed glasses and a white coat and his piercing gaze exudes authority. At that point nobody knows that a few years later this…

15. 11: The Family Conflict

    2 May 2023 · 28 min · Episode 11

    In May 1999, Norway is rocked by a horrific triple murder. An elderly couple and their 47-year-old daughter are found dead on a small farm north of Oslo. The bullets were fired at point-blank range, execution-style.…

16. 10: The Book Thief

    25 Apr 2023 · 20 min · Episode 10

    When a 30-year-old student from Malmö is arrested on suspicion of stealing a large number of books, his packed fridge is found to hide a much grislier secret. This is a case that sent shockwaves across Sweden,…

17. 9: Death on Ward 26

    18 Apr 2023 · 21 min · Episode 9 · Explicit

    In 1978, Ward 26 of Malmö East Hospital is hit by a mysterious epidemic that claims nearly 30 lives in the space of 3 months. All of the dead have a strange red rash around the mouth. While the hospital’s management is…

18. 8: Heidi

    11 Apr 2023 · 21 min · Episode 8

    One moment Heidi is playing in the sandpit, the next she is nowhere to be seen. When a child goes missing, there is great pressure on the police to investigate the disappearance. It’s crucial to find the child as…

19. 7: Jonna, Lovita, and Jonas: A Deadly Love Triangle

    4 Apr 2023 · 38 min · Episode 7

    When a detective interrogates a young female suspect, she finally admits the truth. But her story is so horrific, it beggars belief. This is the story of a passionate love which turns into all-consuming jealousy. A…

20. 6: Murder at the Villa

    28 Mar 2023 · 29 min · Episode 6

    On a grey November day in 1967, the doorbell rings at a modern villa in south Aarhus in Denmark. The lady of the house answers and lets a stranger in. Ten minutes later, the tastefully decorated home has turned into a…

21. 5: Juha and Marita: The Bonnie and Clyde of the North

    21 Mar 2023 · 33 min · Episode 5

    Juha is aware that he’s not like others. He’s different – or perhaps a psychopath. His girlfriend Marita knows it too. The pair – dubbed "the Bonnie and Clyde of the North" – go on a road trip together that will claim…

22. 4: Bobby

    14 Mar 2023 · 42 min · Episode 4

    This is the story of Bobby, a 10-year old disabled boy, who was vulnerable and lived an isolated life, hidden away on a farm with his mother and her boyfriend in a remote rural part of Sweden. Nobody knew what was…

23. 3: In love. Engaged. Gone.

    7 Mar 2023 · 30 min · Episode 3

    In early August 2009, a young man named Mats - who lived in Falun, Sweden - called the police in desperation. He reported that his fiancée Linda Chen had gone missing. She'd left the house on a Saturday evening wearing…

24. 2: Kazuko: The Nameless Corpse in the Harbour

    28 Feb 2023 · 30 min · Episode 2

    One morning in October 1986, the Copenhagen police receive a phone call from a distressed taxi driver. While standing in traffic near "Islands Brygge", he spotted something in the water: the the torso of a woman. In…

25. 1: Kiss of Death

    28 Feb 2023 · 32 min · Episode 1

    A story of teenage love that turns into deadly obsession. On 30 April 2009, 15-year-old Therese Johansson Rojo shares a kiss with her classmate Tim at a party just outside Stockholm. Over the course of 38 days, what…

26. Introducing: Murder in the North

    14 Feb 2023 · 1:28 · Trailer

    Murder in the North explores some of the most shocking murder cases in Scandinavia. Like the case of the young woman who set off from Tokyo on a back-packing journey across Europe in 1987, but whose adventure of a…