True Crime Stories From Denmark

Jochim Gisle Larsson (SOLVED)

 Joachim was only 6 year old when he was murdered! (SOLVED)

The date was saturday the 8th of november 1986 - Joachim was walking happily down a street named Husarvej towards Elmers Bakery in Randers wearing his new blue rubberboots, He had walked the rute plenty of times with his dad so he knew the way like the back of his hand - Joachim Gisle Larssons mother has let him leave for the short walk for the first time ever and he was very exicted to prove he now was a big boy who could do this by him self! His mom has given him a wallet with 100 kr in it and a list with what to buy wich she had told him to hand the lady at the bakery - as a suprise the mother has written at the bottom to let Joach choose something for him self for being such a good boy and doing this all by himself - BUT Joachim never made it to the bakery - When the dissaperance was made public all of Denmark was in schok you didn't hear about these things back then

The only lead the police had was the wallet and the list that was found at a street named Garnisonsvej, right after the spot where his mom no longer was able to watch him from the window - He never reached the bakery and never got to know the suprise on the list

The chief of murder investigation Bent Isager-Nielsen was sure they would find him soon but after the first three days hope began fading - as everyone knows the chance of finding a child alive after dissapearing deminshes with the hours

The body of the just 6 year old Joachim was found in a wood near the small city Fladbro 6 kilometers / 3.7 Miles - His body was laying under a bunch of branches, he was still wearing his blue rubberboots, his body full of stab wounds the police saying it was one of the most horrible and scarring sights they had ever seen - he had been beaten and stapped 22 times - But who would do this to a small and innocent boy?

The police started shearching for the murder but it was a much longer process than they had thought it would be - they started with collecting evidence from the crime scene, they found some marks from the wheel of a motorbike and from those they could tell they where shearching for a very special kind of motorbike

Even though Joachims body showed no sign of sexual abuse the police still had a thought that the crime could have been sexual motivated - in his underpants three diffrent kind of plants that didn't grow anywhere near where Joachim was dumped was found, that would mean that his pants would have been pulled of and put back on, but why? and where? these questions would haunt Bent Isager-Nielsen for years.

In the majority of murdercases the murder is someone who knows the victim, so the little boys parents was questioned relentlessly multiple times but they ruled them out - They questioned 2500 people in total but got nothing out of it.

While all the questioning was happening the police went to a botanist to identify the plants and get closer to where the actual assult happend - the botanist identified the plants as; Hvidtjørn (Hawthorn), Hybenrose (Rosehip) and Vortebirk (Wart Birch) - but they couldn't figure out where they came from

Five months after Joachims murder the case was running cold
But then another child was assulted in Randers, this time it was a 10 year old girl named Pia Schou an early morning in 1987 while walking her paperrute she left her bag while walking with a paper in her hand towards a building like she always did, but when she came back her bag was gone, she looked around for it, then she saw a man standing at a basment door holding her bag up signaling for her to come get it - Pia felt a uneasy feeling in her stomach and didn't want to walk over to him, but she also didn't know what to do, after all he had all her papers that she needed to deliver, she walked away and came back later - the man was nowhere to be seen and the bag was laying infront of the basement door, she walked down the stairs towards the door - when she bowed down to pick up the bag a hand grabbed her from behind and placed a hand over her mouth - he pulled her into the basement he threatened her with a knife to keep quiet he then told her "Pee in your pants" - Pia Schou was in chok she wanted to do it to make sure he wouldn't get more mad and hurt her but she was frozen in fear and couldn't do anything, he grabbed her neck and while choking her pulled her further back into the basement, the man sexually asulted the little girl, she thought she was going to die because he still would choke her sometimes

Weirdly he let her go even though she had sen him, a few hours after the attack 10-year-old Pia was sitting in the police station with her parents and told the police what had happend to her - the police gets out a photo album with criminals and asks if she regonises any of them, she does, she tells them it's the eyes, she's very caught up on the eyes. She tells the police the man told her his name was Søren, but the man in the pictures name is Peder, Peder Dinesen Fur, the police didn't think she was right, Peder was known for small crimes but nothing big at all so they didn't want to look further into it, little did they know that Pia had just pointed out both hers and Joachims attacker

The next two years nothing happend and Peder struck again this time he lured two girls aged 7 and 10 he once again tried to get them to pee in their pants but the youngst refused as soon as he told them to and that made him very mad he yelled at her to leave while the oldest had to stay, as soon as the 7-year-old had left he threw the 10 year old to the ground in anger, he loosened his belt and tried to tied her up but she kicked him to much - this made Peder very very mad he grabbed he around the neck and squeesed he told her to pee or he would kill her but the 10 year old bit his hand and Peder let go because of the suprised, she ran away

The assult on the 10 year old and the attempted assult of the 7 year old was the big break through in the case, it was a lot like the case of Pia Schou, the man had told them to pee and that his name was Søren 

The same day Peder was arrested and he very quickly admidet to the assult of the two ten year old, the attempt on the 7 AND  a lot of ther assult on children in the town and out of nowhere he also admited to killing 6-Year-Old Joachim

Acording to Peder he had jumped on a stolen motorbike to find a little girl when he saw Joachim he thought he was a girl he promised Joachim to drive him to the bakery and got him to jump on the back of his motorbike but instead of driving him to the bakery he drove him to a deserted area where he told him to pee on him self it was only then the mistake was discovered by Peder. Only then he realized he had kidnapped a boy instead of a girl - he didn't know what to do so he drove around a little with Joachim until he stopped to drink some beer, while drinking Joachim got really sad and threw a tantrum about wanting to come home to her mother

But Peder never explained why he killed Joachim he got life time in prison