The Netherlands enters the investigation through the Schiedam nail-gun murders, initially handled as a local case after Danish police could not establish a connection to crimes in Denmark. That separation later gave way to a suspected link with killings on Amager and in Sorø, placing the Dutch case within a broader, still-developing inquiry.

Schiedam and the Initial Handoff

Danish investigators first concluded that they could not establish a link between the crimes in Denmark and the case in Schiedam. They therefore handed the Schiedam investigation to their Dutch colleagues, who continued it as a local case. The transfer marks an early boundary in the inquiry: the Dutch killings were known to Danish police, but the available evidence did not then justify treating them as part of the same series.

A Suspected Cross-Border Connection

At a later press meeting, Lars Bjørn announced that the nail-gun murders in Schiedam, the killings on Amager, and those in Sorø were now considered likely to be connected after all. The wording remained provisional: the cases were described as likely linked, not conclusively resolved as one. The change nevertheless reversed the earlier separation and widened the investigation beyond national and local jurisdictions.

Dutch Technical Work

The Dutch colleague Hans Rinus was introduced to explain the results of the technical examination of a body and the search of Rasmus Bruhn’s home. The account establishes that Dutch investigators conducted this forensic and residential work and presented it as part of the joint inquiry; it does not specify the findings in this passage. The Netherlands thus functions both as the location of the Schiedam murders and as an active investigative partner in testing the suspected connection.