40 Facts About Peter Lundin

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.

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

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

The murder of Anna Schaftner Peter Lundin took place around April 1,1991.

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

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

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

Ole finished his sentence and was deported while Peter Lundin appealed both the length of his sentence and his deportation.

Peter Lundin failed to overturn his conviction, but on February 16,1995, his sentence was reduced to 15 years, which he served at Brown Creek Correctional Institution.

In 1994, Peter Lundin was interviewed by Danish TV channel TV 2 during his stay in prison.

Organizer Jesper Klit then wrote a letter to Peter Lundin asking if he would participate in an interview with Danish television.

Peter Lundin agreed, and the interview was arranged with American prison authorities who had a very liberal attitude towards media interviewing inmates.

Peter Lundin was released after serving barely half of his sentence.

Peter Lundin contacted police because he was worried that he could not reach Pedersen or the boys on their cellphones.

Peter Lundin had found a note on her front door that said they had gone on a vacation.

Peter Lundin claimed that Pedersens were on holiday, and that he had agreed to paint their house while they were away.

However, on July 5,2000, Peter Lundin was arrested, charged with murder, and detained for four weeks.

Peter Lundin explained that he had heard screams from the basement at night between June 16 and 17,2000.

Peter Lundin then began to beat her because she had killed the boys.

Peter Lundin said that, although he had not struck her "seriously," she died shortly after.

Peter Lundin did not call the police as he thought they would not believe his story because of his past and had instead decided to dismember the bodies.

Peter Lundin explained that he had quarrelled with Marianne because she "had spoken sweetly" on the phone with another man.

Subsequently, Peter Lundin fought with Pedersen and her sons on her double bed, where he broke their necks with his bare hands.

On June 19,2000, Peter Lundin went shopping at a Metro in Glostrup, where he bought an axe, rubber glove, plastic bags and cleaning agents.

Peter Lundin put the body parts in plastic bags, which he then placed in bulk waste containers outside the house.

Peter Lundin probably drove further around Zealand in Marianne's Ford Mondeo and placed smaller body parts in various waste containers.

Just a few days before, the police and state prosecutor Erik Merlung hoped that Peter Lundin would admit his guilt to deliberate manslaughter.

Peter Lundin insisted that he did not mean to kill his victims, but the jurors did not believe him.

The father, Ole Peter Lundin, was not convicted of complicity or involvement in the disposal of the three bodies.

Peter Lundin was sentenced to 4 months of unconditional imprisonment on June 7,2002.

Peter Lundin apparently believed that there was death penalty in Denmark at the time, explaining this on a cassette tape in the prison, which Ekstra Bladet came into possession of in 2008.

Peter Lundin was struck with an iron tube, which broke his nose.

Peter Lundin filed a case and demanded 10,000 DKK in compensation for the harm done.

Poulsen claimed that Peter Lundin had lied to her about another woman he was in a relationship with while they were married.

Peter Lundin revealed this when she appeared on GO Aften Danmark on October 9,2008.

On May 26,2011, Peter Lundin married a woman named Bettina.

Peter Lundin was again sentenced to 10 days in prison by the Court of Glostrup on April 23,2012, for having 8.5 grams of cannabis and four amphetamine pills on July 26,2011.

Peter Lundin was accused in September 2012 to be behind the smuggling of cannabis and other substances in the Institute of Herstedvester.

In November 2011, Peter Lundin changed his name to Niels Schaftner, but this was later changed to Bjarne Skounborg.

The publishing house of Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet sparked a lot of debate when it announced plans in 2001 to cooperate with Peter Lundin to writing his memoir.