Who Killed Prince Frederik's Friend?

Thirty Years After Anne’s Death, The Danish Royal Is Still Haunted By Her Murder

Crown Prince Frederik has once again been pulled into an unsolved murder case that has baffled police for nearly 30 years.

A new book has been published which reveals new evidence around the horrific 1990 killing of his former school friend Anne Stine Geisler.

The Danish royal was 22 years old and studying political science at Aarhus University when he was given the shocking news that Anne had been found, murdered.

The 18-year-old, who had gone missing some time in the early hours of June 4, 1990, on her way home from a party amid Copenhagen’s Pentecost celebrations, was found dead in the basement of her apartment block building in the neighbourhood of Teglgårdsstræde.

Anne’s hands and neck had been tied up with cord attached to the door handle so she would be strangled if she moved; two dishcloths had been put in her mouth and her body covered with floor wax. A symbol that looked like “PK” was etched into the skin of her right forearm.

She was found by a chef working for a restaurant housed in the building’s ground floor.

A new book about the murder case, En Djaevel I Den Lyse Nat (A Devil in the Bright Night), reveals how the Crown Prince was deeply shaken when he received the awful news of Anne’s death.