In June 2000, Marianne Pedersen and her two sons, Brian and Dennis, vanished from a house in Rødovre, Denmark. There were no bodies. No graves. Police later searched 8,500 tons of incinerator slag and still found almost nothing.

The man who lived there was Peter Lundin — already convicted in the United States of killing his own mother, already deported, already free under Danish law. Host Alexander Lawson traces the path from North Carolina to Copenhagen, the night of 16–17 June 2000, the confession that denied intent, and the 2001 life sentence that still has not returned three people to their family for burial.

A True Crime Podcast.

Content warning: family murder, the killing of children, and the disposal of human remains.

For 23 years, Marcel Lychau Hansen coached football, cleaned planes at Copenhagen Airport, and lived as a family man on Amager. At night he was something else. In 2010, DNA from one attack finally tied him to two murders and a string of rapes dating back to 1987 — including the killing of 73-year-old Edith Andrup and schoolteacher Lene Buchardt Rasmussen. Host Alexander Lawson tells how Amagermanden hid in plain sight, how police missed him, and how a life sentence still left questions unanswered.

Content warning: murder, sexual violence.

On 3 March 2021, Sarah Everard was walking home through Clapham when a police officer pulled over, showed a warrant card, and put her in handcuffs. Five minutes later she was gone.

That officer was Metropolitan Police constable Wayne Couzens. He kidnapped, raped and murdered her — then tried to cover it up. He is serving a whole-life sentence. He will never be released.

But this episode is not only about that night. Host Alexander Lawson traces the years of reported sexual offending that came before it, the flashing incidents days earlier that should have stopped him, and the inquiries that later concluded police could and should have taken him off the street.

A story about abuse of power, missed warnings, and what it means when the person who stops you on the road is the danger.

Content warning: sexual violence, murder, and institutional failure around women’s safety. If you need support in the UK: Rape Crisis, Victim Support, or Samaritans on 116 123.

December 20, 2024. A rented BMW tears through Magdeburg’s Christmas market. Sixty-four seconds. Six dead — including a nine-year-old boy — and more than three hundred injured. The driver is Taleb al-Abdulmohsen: Saudi-born psychiatrist, ex-Muslim activist, and a man German authorities had been warned about for years.

Host Alexander Lawson traces how al-Abdulmohsen arrived in Germany in 2006, built an online following, invoked the Boston Marathon in a 2013 threat, clashed with courts and refugee groups, and planned the attack that ended in a life sentence with particular gravity of guilt in June 2026. This episode also corrects a common mix-up: his crimes were not committed in the United States. America appears here as a threat he named, platforms that amplified him, and headlines that misplaced the crime scene.

A True Crime Podcast. Sources include Magdeburg trial reporting, Reuters, BBC, CNN, and the 2014 Rostock judgment.

On January 1, 2025, a rented Ford F-150 tore through New Year’s crowds on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Fourteen people were killed. The driver, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was an American Army veteran, a former Deloitte consultant, and a father from Texas. Hours earlier he had posted videos pledging allegiance to ISIS. Host Alexander Lawson traces the documented path—from Beaumont and a decade in uniform to collapsing finances, unused bombs on the street, and a shootout that ended the attack. Drawn from FBI briefings, court records, and the investigation that followed. Listener discretion advised.

Four in the morning. Two students walking home after exams. A caretaker on his way to work. By sunrise, three people are dead and three more have been run down in the street.

In this episode, Alexander Lawson examines the 13 June 2023 attacks in Nottingham: the killings of Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates, the van attacks on Wayne Birkett, Sharon Miller and Marcin Gawronski, and the years of missed warnings that came before.

Who was Valdo Calocane? How did a mechanical engineering graduate with paranoid schizophrenia, four Mental Health Act detentions, an outstanding warrant and a trail of violence remain free? Why did the courts accept manslaughter by diminished responsibility instead of murder — and why does an indefinite hospital order still leave the families fighting for answers?

A story of three lives cut short, a public inquiry into systemic failure, and a city asking how this was allowed to happen.

Listener note: this episode discusses fatal knife violence and serious mental illness.

Four University of Idaho students went to sleep after a Saturday night out. By morning, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin were dead. Host Alexander Lawson traces the 2022 killings at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho—the knife sheath left at the scene, the white Hyundai Elantra on neighborhood cameras, the phone that went dark, and the genetic genealogy that led police to a criminology Ph.D. student two thousand miles away. In July 2025, Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four consecutive life terms without parole. Motive was never established. This episode is about the investigation, the courtroom ending, and the four lives that should still be here.

On a lonely stretch of Long Island highway, a police dog found four women wrapped in burlap. The man who left them there commuted to Manhattan, ran an architecture firm, and lived with his family in Massapequa Park.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson tells the story of Rex Heuermann — the Gilgo Beach killer — from the 1993 murder of Sandra Costilla through the killings of Karen Vergata, Valerie Mack, Jessica Taylor, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, and Amber Lynn Costello. Heuermann pleaded guilty in April 2026 and was sentenced to life without parole in June 2026.

A strong opening, a clear timeline, and a focus on the women whose names came before the case file.

Listener discretion advised. Contains descriptions of murder and violence.

If you or someone you know is in crisis in the U.S., call or text 988.

Malmö, 2009. A parked car. Eleven shots. A twenty-year-old woman dead in the passenger seat — and a city still telling itself the gunfire was just gang war.

For years, Sweden’s third-largest city lived with a pattern it didn’t want to name: a licensed shooter on a bicycle, choosing victims by how they looked, how their names sounded, or who sat beside them. He called it a race war. What he built was a manhunt.

Host Alexander Lawson tells the story of Peter Mangs — the man the press nicknamed Laser Man II — from the 2003 killings on Gånglåtsvägen through the 2009–2010 shooting spree, the arrest at his apartment door, and the life sentence that followed. Two murders. Eight attempted murders. A city that stopped walking after dark.

This episode names the victims, stays with the verdicts, and refuses the myth.

A True Crime Podcast.

Stockholm, August 1991. A red dot appears on a young man’s back. Then a shot. Over six months, eleven people — almost all immigrants — are gunned down in Stockholm and Uppsala. One does not survive.

Host Alexander Lawson tells the story of John Ausonius, the bank robber and far-right shooter the Swedish press named Lasermannen. Born Wolfgang Zaugg to immigrant parents, he changed his name, dyed his hair, and set out to scare people like his childhood self out of the country — first with a laser-sighted rifle, then a revolver, and on a bicycle between bank jobs.

This episode follows the attacks, the murder of student Jimmy Ranjbar, the killing of Holocaust survivor Blanka Zmigrod in Frankfurt, one of Sweden’s largest manhunts since Palme, and the two life sentences that still hold Ausonius.

A True Crime Podcast. Listener discretion: racist violence and named victims.