The Between 1987 and 2010, six separate crimes were committed that hardly seemed to be connected.

But with the development of DNA technology, the police were able to tie most of the crimes to one man and convict one of Denmark's most notorious killers.

I'm Charlie and welcome to crime lines.

Welcome to the 12 days of crime lines. We're doing a case from Denmark, which is where my mother-in-law is from,

for those who don't know.

And I have been there once spending two weeks visiting extended family.

It was many years ago. and I've definitely wanted to cover a Danish case for a while

One of the issues is obviously language the other is the publication of crime stories isn't quite as extensive as it is like in the US

where they release a lot of information. However, this case, the Amma Man story is one that was reported on widely and my research skills have improved greatly over the years to where I really can research stories that happened in other languages

and then how to translate them. I'm a lot better about that. If you are a Danish

speaker though there is a long-form podcast on this case that probably has a lot more details than I will have.

It's called Dendansky-Siorre-Mura and I'll leave the name in the show notes because you probably couldn't understand my terrible accent there

But it has a lot more information. I'm sure unfortunately my Google Translate abilities does not really make it

feasible to translate six podcast episodes over so I did not use it for research but I did use a Danish documentary called the Copenhagen Killer that I was able to watch with

subtitles so I did get some information from there as well as other sources

they are linked in the show notes. This case starts in the 1980s but it would

take decades to connect all of the crimes and to really bring this case to any

type of legal resolution. We are going to start with 73 year old Edadandrup who lived in an apartment in

Southwest Copenhagen. She was a widow who was comfortable thanks to financial

resources but she was a bit of a homebody.

She didn't have a ton of people coming and going from her place, so she proved herself to be a

pretty quiet neighbor.

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