Murderer and Rapist Naum Conevski: The Foreign Taxi Driver

Scandinavian Crimes (w/ Devante & Delila)

Year(s) of Incident: May 1984
Location: Denmark
Murderer and Rapist Naum Conevski: The Foreign Taxi Driver
Victim(s):  4
Method: Murder, Rapist

In 1985, Denmark was shaken by the brutal murders of two teenage boys near Viborg. This episode delves into the chilling story of Naum Conevski, a reclusive immigrant whose heinous actions and psychological profile gripped the nation. We explore the crime, its aftermath, and the indefinite detention sentence that followed.
 

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 2:17 Story - The Double Murder
• 3:55 Story - Investigation
• 5:37 Story - The Previous Rape Case
• 8:22 Story - The Arrest for the Double Murder
• 9:50 Story - Trial, Conviction, and Aftermath
• 12:02 Discussion Section
• 15:54 [Ad] Persons of Interest
• 16:33 (Cont.) Discussion Section
• 23:45 Conclusion/Outro

Transcript

Welcome to Scandinavian crimes. My name is Devante and say hello to my lovely co-host Delila Hi and on this podcast we talk about famous Scandinavian criminals who made their mark throughout Scandinavian history So today we're gonna be covering the murderer and rapist Nam konevsky. All right,(...) and this took place in the summer of 1984 Three close friends went camping Later that evening the night ended in horror when a man armed with an unique revolver attacked them While one boy managed to escape the other two were tragically killed so this is gonna be one of those cases where it's gonna be all over the place not necessarily story wise, but We're not really sure Who's like we know some things could be improved, but we're not really sure how things truly transpired because of the level of investigation and also just The evidence or the lack thereof but as we go through the story You'll kind of understand why this is a little bit of a confusing and conflicting case so definitely(...) Strap strap on for this ride. It's gonna be a little bit of a bumpy ride along the way But you already know what I'm gonna say grab your tea Grab your snacks if you're on your way to work You already know what to do just tuck yourself in that little corner put on your headphones Turn the volume up to 80% because you don't want to be too loud because this is the story of Nam call nefsky(...) On The night between May 19th and 20th 1984 three friends from the youth club Dion in on a monger 20 year old and Rico Nielsen 16 year old Brian Peterson and 16 year old Dennis Anderson has set up camp at Fimmeran Copenhagen, Denmark The three friends had a cozy evening with the bonfire and went to sleep around 2 a.m Suddenly a man appeared from the darkness whistling peculiarly as if calling for a dog He threatened them with an old-fashioned revolver with a white handle demanding they hand over a pistol When the boys said they knew nothing about a pistol the man became furious(...) Using a pocket knife. He slashed a hole in one of the boys bicycle tires and then commanded them to lie on their stomachs The man said you have a pistol that belongs to me hand it over(...) Placing his revolver against one of the boys temple. He asked should I shoot you and calmly the Boyd replied it's up to you and The man shot him in the head Dennis distraught stood up and fled the man shot him grazing him, but he managed to escape(...) While running he heard more gunfire knowing the man probably murdered the other boy It was an incomprehensible and brutal crime The attacker killed Enrico and Brian at close range and attempted to kill Dennis who managed to escape and hide Dennis reported the shooting to the police at 4 27 a.m Describing the perpetrator as a migrant worker of mixed ethnicity who spoke broken Danish Jurgen Bach a highly regarded lead investigator was taxed with solving the double murder At the crime scene police found the pocket knife used to slash the bicycle tires in the bushes sent for fingerprint analysis Unfortunately, the fingerprint analysis didn't match anyone in their database The details of the distinctive white-handed revolver used by the perpetrator became a crucial clue The police released a picture of a similar revolver to the press which led a dentist to come forward He had tried to sell such a weapon and a potential buyer had shown interest The dentist described a person of a mixed ethnicity with broken Danish However, after the weapon was shown there was a burglary at the dentist residence and the revolver was stolen Witnesses noticed a Mercedes outside the dentist home during the burglary which turned out to belong to a Yugoslavian taxi driver named nom Konevsky

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His appearance and behavior matched the dentist description of the buyer and aligned with Dennis's description of the man who murdered his friends(...) Nom had just been acquitted of a rape crime three months prior Despite Jurgen's strong suspicions against him the fingerprint on the pocket knife did not match Leaving the police with no case and back to square one

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In an unconventional move the police decided to fingerprint all 5,000 foreign men living on a Maga to find the murderer(...) This bold decision sparked a significant debate over racial discrimination While the police insisted they were focused on solving the case many in the targeted group felt unfairly singled out Despite this massive effort there was no match at all and the police were still at a dead end You can remain suspicious of nom recalling an old case that ended in noms acquittal just months before the double murder at femoran in that case 42 year old girly claimed that nom raped her in her home after he picked her up in his taxi while she was intoxicated in January 1981 She claimed that after arriving home and letting her dog out Nom suddenly appeared next to her and dragged her into the bedroom where the rape occurred(...) Girly reported the incident to the police soon after providing a detailed description of nom noting his mixed ethnic background in broken danish Nom denied the allegations claiming he merely did his job as a taxi driver and dropped her off at home However, he emphasized that she had been very flirtatious with him in court Girly's testimony was believed leading to noms initial 18-month sentence, which was later increased to two and a half years by the Supreme Court Nom maintained his innocence throughout the trial claiming girly's bruises resulted from her attempting to force oral sex on him while he pushed her away He expressed rage towards the danish state insisting that he was a victim of racist conspiracy and a personal vendetta Which fueled his anger towards denmark in the 1980s danish attitudes towards migrant workers shipped from the welcoming stance of the 1960s and 70s When many from turkine and yugoslavia came for temporary jobs initially needed from labor These workers faced growing negativity as unemployment rose in the 1980s foreign labor began to be seen as competition for danish workers Nom was born in the former yugoslavia as the only son cherished by his parents He trained as a radio technician and moved to sweden before relocating to denmark for work After losing several jobs, he gradually developed a deep resentment towards denmark and its people(...) The rape case against nom became linked to this broader discussion about racism Raising questions about whether he was wrongly convicted due to his background as a yugoslavian taxi driver two journalists from extra investigated the old rape case believing nom may have been wrongly convicted due to racism They explored girly's background claiming neighbors reported her as a flirtatious And noting her high alcohol consumption and use of tranquilizers, which they argued undermined her credibility(...) This raised questions about whether girly was unfamily blaming a migrant worker as a result extra blot that successfully pushed to reopen girly's case And in 1984 nom was acquitted(...) With the eastern high court stating that the evidence was insufficient for conviction However, the question remains whether it was the court's failure or the police investigation that was insufficient in this case following his acquittal nom received nearly a quarter of a million kroner in compensation A few months after nom's acquittal and his large compensation for the alleged rape of girly the double murder occurred Jurgen compared it to nom's fingerprints from the rape case but found no match Despite this jurgen's gut feeling persistent The next morning the fingerprint was reexamined and the head of the fingerprint department admitted a mistake Upon reevaluation they matched nom's fingerprints on six out of ten points While this wouldn't be deemed sufficient in denmark. It would be considered acceptable in other countries like norway Additionally fingerprints from the rape case provided two matches strengthening the case against nom

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When the police went to nom's apartment They found it empty a meticulous search of his apartment uncovered a rental agreement for a garage in Sidhavnen signed by someone named rasmussen When contacted rasmussen informed the police that the garage was rented by nom's wife vessa(...) Realizing the significance the police recognized the urgency of locating the garage Suspecting it might contain evidence related to the case The police quickly searched the garage and finally found the revolver with a white grip With both the murder weapon and fingerprint evidence in hand the case now seems straightforward to a confession

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Nom and his family have traveled to their homeland yugoslavia On july 24th two months and four days after the double murder the police arrested nom at the copenhagen airport Nom denies any involvement in the murders admitting only to stealing the pistol from the dentist and claiming he later sold it to an unnamed Turk, he states that the pistol ended up in the garage because the Turk returned it to him after the murders Nom also later changed the story and insisted he never had a gun suggesting it was simply left in the rented garage His explanations fail to add up Additionally nom's poor danish complicates the questioning process requiring 12 people present during the interrogation(...) Nom offers no confessions and repeatedly denies all allegations(...) He's shifting and increasingly implausible accounts contradict the evidence against him Ultimately, he is charged and taken into custody

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Throughout the trial nom insists on his innocence despite the evidence including the murder weapon fingerprints and 20 witnesses He maintains he is a victim of unjust persecution and suspicion A mental assessment confirms that nom was fully accountable and sane at the time of the crimes(...) on june 26(...) 1985

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Nom was sentenced to life in prison

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the court of appeal jurors took

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Three hours to conclude that he murdered in rico and brian at amagre stran and attempted to murder dennis While the motive for the murders remain unclear the prosecutors convinced jurors of nom's guilt Additionally, the jurors found him guilty of rape and robbery against three women(...) In 2017 nom applied for parole, but the court of appeal denied it(...) He has now served 37 years in prison the longest sentence in danish history(...) The anger of one man led to tragic consequences two boys lost their lives and girly later took her own life One can only wonder how things might have changed if nom had been convicted properly in the girly case(...) The nom case underscores the need for thorough investigations grounded in factual analysis and scientific methods despite this Intuition and gut feeling frequently play a significant role in decision making Highlighting the complex interplay between hard evidence In human judgment

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I want to keep up the tradition of the last couple episodes by making sure I speak first.

Oh my god, please Just let me start for what?

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No, you can start it's okay

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The only thing I wanted to say was

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It's tough the way things are framed I'm just slightly inclined to believe he did those things(...) but at the same time this is taking place during a time when they did not do a good job of investigations and They didn't really find any clear motive and(...) They said they found the gun

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In the garage that he was renting

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So it was definitely weird and also what greeted me out specifically as well was Oh, you know, she tried to you know, perform oral sex on me

Oh, you're jumping between cases now. So the first

yeah, no, no, yeah, i'm just let me to clarify I'm jumping between cases But i'm just letting you know like it's weird because it's like little small things that said that makes me like he might have did it But then the investigations in both cases were like Fishies. Yeah

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So that's kind of what i'm saying

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So like we can talk about the girly case um So I wanted to talk about the whole racism thing and the acquittal of the rape case Like I don't think it's wrong to find faults in the legal system and fight injustices But it was just very unfortunate that it helped someone who truly was a criminal like now(...) so with now being a foreigner and The victim being a well-spoken danish woman Assumption were quickly made without a proper investigation, which is the whole issue The police the prosecutors and the justice system just failed to look beyond the stereotypes and treating it as a simple case of a foreign worker versus a danish woman

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and

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You know in the 80s They obviously sided with a danish woman. They thought that you know, it was a no-brainer Uh with little no evidence and you know That is completely wrong

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um, however Reality wise on one side we have men who can get falsely charged with rape allegations

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And on the other side we can have women who are victims that are not believed(...) And that is why I like rape cases are so sad and evidence is the key to get the true criminal

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And you know You know otherwise you get men who are unfairly charged or the criminals just get freed With no sentence and they do whatever they want and for you know, unfortunately now(...) Sorry gnome, I don't know how to say his name

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He was free.

So you got on me for it.

Sorry. Uh, it's like it's too many a(...) Like it's gnome uh He was freed and girly was victim blamed and scrutinized by the media and she just ended up committing suicide And it's just tragic(...) uh And that's why you know rape cases is really tough because

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I feel like you know, you never know If you don't have the evidence to support it Uh, and I feel like in that part. I believe it's the police Didn't do a through an investigation

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Uh to get proper evidence because I i'm pretty sure that they

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You know were evidence

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For what he did

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Yeah, it was it was weird because like I said just small things he said During the investigation was like this sounds like someone who did it like that gaslighting tactic like oh, I was put like I said I mentioned it already. Oh, I was pushing her off from oral sex. I'm just like you don't say that when you're innocent You know, you don't see stuff like that. You're making it seem like yeah, it's very specific and you're making it seem like You know, oh she was the one doing something to

me by the way since Okay,

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I

was the one who like

yeah And also the media was just Egging on as well and they actually got criticism for that They're how they handled the whole situation And how they complicated the matter and how they you know, they pursue their own own agenda. They mishandled sensitive information

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And they just made everything worse

agenda you said agenda

Well again does my it's my thing now I speed up the word. I'm sorry agenda again.

I was like, I don't know what that is. I don't want to agenda is(...) But I think yeah, I can agree this investigation needed work

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Because maybe if they would have thoroughly investigated, you know, they could have You know really dove deep into why?

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Or kind of what was going on with the rape case specifically But then also what kind of makes this even trippier as well is the fact that Supposedly the neighbors said, you know outside of her drinking and using tranquilizers, which is crazy The fact that she herself was flirtatious So

but even if you're At least

the at least the picture at least the picture that i'm thinking when I like visualize all this Is maybe because of how often she was maybe under the influence of tranquilizers or alcohol That it was possible that maybe she came off or she came on to other people in the neighborhood So people had a perception of her And then that one time she probably genuinely had an encounter with someone Who she didn't want to be in an encounter with but because of some of the stuff she's previously done Then people, you know back in the day as well if you're(...) Flirtatious they assumed like, you know yours with any and everybody So the one time she probably didn't want that interaction No one believed her maybe because of her behavior under the influence of the alcohol and tranquilizers

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True(...) Also, I think it's also good to know I did say that like, oh they didn't have evidence lala Well, they I just reminded myself they did find trophies(...) of um like not nouns uh rape cases in general, so he had been raping other women and he took certain things from their apartments and Left them in his apartment and in also in his apartment in ukislavia ukislavia. Okay. Yeah. Yeah

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so like he took for example, like an LP record or like a cassette tapes that was featuring the victim singing and Uh a table lamp. He like he took things that the victims owned as a trophy

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um

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And they found it during the search

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So that's why also he was convicted of other rapes Rape cases because they found evidence of these trophies

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um And if they just did this properly(...) They could have found this out during the first rape case

um

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Yeah, so I just(...) What's interesting as well? The worth this seems like he might be a sadist then based on like the things that we like displeasure in The suffering a little bit.

I thought about that too because I was like that's not very like I I think it's very rare for(...) Like there's certain types of people that take something from a crime scene(...) as a trophy

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That's why I was like it's very strange to me that like

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He would do that

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So I I think that he's have probably have some tendencies(...) um, yeah what they found in like what they They arise in their investigation because they were like thinking about what's the motive about this one? Why did he murder? Why did he do all these things?

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And the motive that they consider was fanatisms

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I don't know what that is. Honestly, so I looked it up and it's basically like

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Fanatism fanaticism fanaticism. I don't know how to say it's this word

and the(...) consider what fantasies

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Is it fantasies? Okay. Well(...) Sorry,

no fanaticism. Sorry.

I know that Meaning that it's it's basically that he's insane Uh, and his action is very difficult to understand because he's like deranged and ruthless(...) um That's why they they theorize that it was something like that but I think he was

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It sounded to me that he was rational enough to rape people

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So, I don't know why they they only theorize it based on the double murder, um

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And they also talked about how his like his denial and during like(...) Interrogation and the whole process of trial was also due to psychological factors uh to like reject guilt(...) Even though evidence was very prevalent and there was there uh, and this denial can have been it could have been a coping mechanism allow him to claim this victimhood So that's pretty much the only thing that I could find about what they theorized

(...) almost like a disassociation basically like even though he was he blamed everybody else he blamed everybody else for the things that happened or the things

I'm a victim Yeah, basically.

Okay.

Yeah, okay And that's why he used the whole racism thing. He was like i'm braced being racially

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Profiled or i've been in just like this is injustice and stuff like that And that's also why he was freed in the rape case in the rape case in first place um so That's pretty much it. But I think(...) Like there seems to be some sadism thing going on there could be

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Yeah, it's definitely uh enjoyment

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Yeah

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But I don't like I said at least I don't really have too too much to say about this because you know(...) You know, it's mostly the problem was the investigation wasn't done properly But then just some of the things he said makes him feel guilty.

So the only way it was properly done(...) Was during the double murder Yeah, I feel like that's the only time they like do Like try to do it properly, you know

Yeah If they found out someone already had a trial and then if they suspect him of a new crime Then he'd have to look into the old ones And basically double back So yeah, I think the second time around they put a little bit more effort to see You know, there was a correlation in his character because if he is raping women You know, obviously it's not that much it's not that much further to commit murder so You know, it's it's one of these but it's still one of these cases where you know during the time there was just Some people's bias or the databases. Yeah, like they had to go How they went about things?

Yeah, they had to go based on memory and their own intuition like it was at a different time

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Basically information was handled differently

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Yeah, and techniques were too. So I don't have much to say but I guess my question to the audience would be What do you think happened? You know based on what you heard or even let's say you do your own research Let us know what you think happened during these two cases. Do you think he's guilty? Do you think he was someone who suffered from racial bias during both investigations?(...) Or do you feel like it's a little more complex than that, you know, let us know your answers You know, you're more than welcome to reach out or comment on any of our posts regarding any of the cases, um on any platform and(...) Yeah, I hope you enjoyed today's episode, you know, be sure to give us a Five star rating or you know, just a nice rating, you know We put a lot of effort into these and to make sure we end the episode on a good note

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You already know every episode we have to talk about food and apparently you want kfc. So

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Yeah, um i'm american so kfc is pretty much(...) Prevalent over here.

I want to try the swedish one. Okay

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It's not any healthier. It's still fried.

So(...) I mean look there's a difference between Fatty stuff that isn't poison versus poisoned fatty stuff(...) You know, there's a difference the fatty stuff you can burn regularly But then the poison Then you're gonna die slowly while you're getting fat. So, you know, it's different either way. Okay Okay

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