Marcel Hansen (criminal)
After the murder, he stole her jewelry and money, leaving behind a lit candle as well as four open gas taps in the kitchen, in an attempt to blow up the apartment.
[6] At the Copenhagen City Court on December 22, 2011, he was convicted of the murder, and also of attempted arson that could endanger other people's lives.
On August 29, 1990, the 40-year-old schoolteacher Lene Buchardt Rasmussen was riding home to her apartment in Peter Sabroesgade, in Copenhagen's southwest quarter.
[7] The case had stalled for a long time, as DNA evidence from semen found on the victim couldn't be matched to a perpetrator.
On November 1, 2010, police reported that the man who had murdered Lene Rasmussen is the same person who committed two rapes in 2005 and 2010, as the DNA from the three crime scenes matched.
[10] On May 3, 2005, he broke into a dorm room at the Amager College near Ørestad, where he raped a 24-year-old woman for two hours, forcing the victim to wear a blindfold under the threat of a knife.
[11] Lychau Hansen was indicted for the rape after DNA traces were found on the milk carton, as well as handprints on the right doorlock of the victim's bathroom door.
On July 22, 2007, a 47-year-old woman was pulled into a green area at the Vangede Church, near Gentofte, during which Hansen took off her belt and wrapped it around her neck, while forcing her into oral sex.
[14] Marcel Hansen was arrested on November 12, 2010, at 3:23 PM at his Valby residence, charged with the two rapes and the Rasmussen murder.
On the day of his arrest, Marcel's home was thoroughly searched, with police finding a package of "Thin" brand condoms, manufactured by the Swedish company RFSU.
[17] Marcel Lychau Hansen's trial began in the Copenhagen City Court on November 2, 2011, lasting until December 22nd.
[21] On December 15, 2011, it became known to police that Hansen had smuggled letters with his own semen from Vestre Prison, where he was being held in custody.
