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 ideas into people’s heads. But can murder really be contagious? New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Janne...

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 tricks. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe Text and research: Janne Aagard Music: Frej Levin Produced for Podimo by Dag en Nacht Media

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 image will be published in all Norwegian papers. Arnfinn Nesset is suspected of murdering some 60 patients in only three years. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by...

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. The victims were well liked and no DNA is found at the crime scene. Who murdered these three, and more importantly, why? New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna...

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, terrifying everyone who read about it in the newspapers. It begins with the disappearance of a young woman in November 1979. She’s the mother of a young son, and her parents are so worried that they repeatedly beg Malmö police for help. The woman seems to have disappeared off the face...

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 distracted by an internal power struggle, staff shortages and conflicts, a serial killer is on the loose; one of the most prolific killers that Sweden has ever witnessed. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across...

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 quickly as possible. The more time passes, the greater the risk to their safety, and the harder it becomes to secure evidence and find credible witnesses. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now...

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 love triangle with fatal consequences. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe  Text and research: Anne Niluka Iversen Music: Frej...

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 crime scene, with one woman dead, and one badly injured witness. For fifty long years, police, journalists and amateur detectives try to uncover the identity of this mysterious visitor. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime...

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 the lives of three people and lead to a manhunt across much of Scandinavia. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across Europe, and is now available in English told by Jenna Sharpe. Host: Jenna Sharpe  Text and...

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 going on behind closed doors, until it was too late. This shocking story became a landmark case in Sweden, instigating legal reform and changes to child protection protocols.

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 the shoes she planned to wear for her wedding, but had never returned home. At first the police didn't take the investigation particularly seriously - since a missing person isn't necessarily a police issue. But a suspicion was raised a month later - when Mats also disappeared....

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 initially seemed like an innocent teenage flirtation went on to have dramatic and deadly consequences, culminating in events that shocked the whole of Sweden. 

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 the months that followed, more body parts appeared in the water in Copenhagen Harbour. But detectives had no idea who the victim was. No one seemed to have known her. It would take over a year to find out who the victim was.

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 lifetime would end in tragedy in Copenhagen's cold waters. Or, the twisted tale of obsession that led two Swedish teenagers to organise an unspeakable murder over text message. Or the woman who mysteriously disappears one week before her wedding. Our account of these cases is based...