Peter Lundin was released after serving barely half of his sentence of 14 years. At the time, the state of North Carolina had a desperate lack of prison capacity. On June 4, 1999, Lundin and a 4-person US police escort arrived at Copenhagen Airport. After his arrival, Peter moved in with his wife, Tina Lundin, whom he had married in 1996 while serving his sentence in North Carolins, and her teenage daughter in Måløv. In the fall of 1999, after a violent attack on his wife and her daughter resulted in his being thrown out of the apartment, Peter moved into the Men's Home in Nørrebro. While living there, he visited a brothel on Fasanvej 239 in Copenhagen, where he subsequently met Marianne Pedersen, an employee of the brothel. Peter Lundin moved in with Marianne and her two sons. On July 3, 2000, Marianne Pedersen and her sons were declared missing by her older step-son.
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