Peter Lundin

In 1950, Ole Lundin and his brother had moved from Canada to the United States, with the purpose of joining the United States Army, where they could keep their Danish citizenship, unlike in the Canadian army.

The brother was sent to Korea, where he died from a virus, while Ole was stationed in West Germany.

While serving in West Germany, Ole met the young German girl Anna Schaftner.

They got married and later settled in Denmark.

Ole got a job as a bricklayer and built the couple's house on Fuglesangsvej in Solrød Strand.

Peter Kenneth Bostrøm Lundin (born February 15, 1972), who later renamed himself to Bjarne Skounborg and most recently Thomas Kristian Olesen, is a Danish serial killer who, on March 15, 2001, was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Østre Landsret for a triple murder.

Peter Lundin was born on February 15, 1972, at Roskilde Sygehus, as the son of Ole Bostrøm Lundin (1935—2014) and the German-born Anna Lundin (née Schaftner; 1932—1991).

In 1979, the master builder Lundin got a blood clot that incapacitated him, and coupled with the family's financial struggles, their house was given a foreclosure.

Following this, they decided to emigrate to the United States with their 9-year-old son Peter.

They bought a house on Essex Drive in the town of Ormond Beach, Florida, where they ran a motel.

In 1984, the family moved into a newly acquired house in Maggie Valley, North Carolina.

A few years later, Ole decided to leave his wife Anna, taking his son with him.

Together, they initially settled in Los Angeles, where they stayed for a few weeks.

They then moved on to New York City, but as it was unsuccessful, they tried staying in Boston.

Their journey ended in Miami, where Ole found an apartment and got working as a bricklayer again.

However, Ole and Anna got together again, with the father and son bringing Anna down to Florida from North Carolina.

In the meantime, the 14-year-old Peter had started studying at a school in Miami.

During his school time in Miami, Peter worked various jobs in his spare time, including as a waiter at a restaurant.

On the day he turned 16, he left school and instead began work as a bricklayer with his father.

It was during this period that he first became acquainted with drugs such as cocaine and marijuana.

However, the family moved back to Maggie Valley again, where he started studying at the local high school.

At this time, Peter started selling cannabis to his classmates.

The murder of Anna Schaftner Lundin took place around April 1, 1991 (the exact date has never been established with certainty).

Peter Lundin was 19 years old, and there had been chaos in the family for a long time.

As both of them were often drunk, Peter and Ole were violent towards Anna.

The situation had previously been so serious that the family's neighbors had called the police several times, but no report came out of the police visits.

It is suspected that a quarrel caused the murder.

Anna Lundin wanted to cut off her son Peter's long hair, causing him to choke her.

Together with his father, they drove the body to the city of Buxton and buried her on the wide sandy beach of Cape Hatteras.

On November 1, 1991, some passers-by who were on a walk on the beach near the lighthouse at the Outer Banks in Buxton discovered the body of a woman which had been washed ashore.

The body was wrapped in a blue blanket, covered with black plastic and wrapped with tape and a yellow rope.

Peter and his father had since fled to Canada, but on June 6, 1992, they were both arrested at a Toronto hotel room.

In July 1993, Peter Lundin was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Dare County.

The night between June 16 and 17, 2000, he killed and then dismembered his cohabitant Marianne Pedersen and her two sons, Dennis (10) and Brian (12), in their house at Nørregårdsvej 26 in Rødovre.

On March 15, 2001, he was found guilty of having caused Marianne Pedersen and her two sons' deaths, but claimed that it was an accident.

His lawyer Bjørn Lund Hansen also argued in court that it was an accident, and when Lundin was found guilty, he asked for a timed sentence of 16 years in prison.

State Attorney Erik Merlung, who represented the case as a prosecutor, had always thought that Lundin should be sentenced for murder, and he demanded life imprisonment.

Despite the Retslægerådet's recommendation - and eventual success - in granting the prosecutor's request for life imprisonment, the country's highest judicial and medical experts had recommended the prisoner remain in custody.

The case is one of Denmark's most horrifying and most talked about murders in recent times.

Lundin is currently serving his life sentence at the Institution of Herstedvester.