Sorø

Sorø enters the investigation through a family connection in the records of Rasmus Bruhn. The town is associated with the nail-gun murders in Denmark: one victim in a car repair shop there was the nephew of a man murdered on Amager, linking the Sorø crime to the earlier case involving Carl Mørck, Anker Høyer, and Hardy Henningsen.

Sorø in the Investigative Trail

During a briefing on the Dutch investigation, Terje Ploug connects the crimes committed on January 26, 2007: the murder of Anker Høyer, the attack that left Hardy Henningsen permanently physically damaged, and the shooting of Carl Mørck. The same weapon had been used in all three crimes, and the police were now in possession of it. The announcement places those events in the background of a wider investigation, but does not itself identify Sorø as the location of the Amager crimes.

The Family Link

The connection to Sorø becomes specific when Hans Rinus presents findings from the examination of Rasmus Bruhn’s body and the search of his home. Notebooks recovered there contained names, including relations living in Sorø. One was the nephew of the younger of two men murdered with a nail gun in a car repair shop in town. That younger man was himself the nephew of the man whom Carl Mørck, Anker Høyer, and Hardy Henningsen had found murdered on Amager, with a Paslode nail in his temple.

Sorø’s significance is therefore investigative rather than scenic: it anchors one branch of a kinship chain connecting the repair-shop murders to the Amager killing and, through the shared weapon, to the 2007 attacks. The evidence identifies the town and its place in that chain without describing the repair shop further or establishing that Rasmus Bruhn’s home was in Sorø.