The Keys on Vangehusvej: James Schmidt and the Østerbro Murders
On 9 March 2019, a young man left a Copenhagen cinema after watching Captain Marvel. He had paid with a dead woman’s bank card.
In four weeks, three pensioners died in the same red-brick block on Vangehusvej in Østerbro. Two were strangled. One was cremated before police treated the death as suspicious. The money on their cards went to pizza, taxis, a strip club — and a movie ticket.
Alexander Lawson tells the story of James Schmidt, born Lual Yai Fayin Lual: the juvenile convictions, the Supreme Court decision that cut an indefinite sentence to seven years, the release, and the life term…
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