Danish man ‘found with 21 severed vaginas’ in his freezer sentences to life

A Danish man found with “female vaginas” in his padlocked home chest freezer has been convicted of 36 charges by the High Court in the Free State.

Police believe most of the victims are from the Lesotho area of South Africa.

Peter Frederiksen who lives in South Africa was “certainly not a man of high moral standing”, said Judge Johann Daffue.

IOL reported that the Dane was found guilty of assaulting his now deceased wife Anna Matseliso Molise‚ possession of child pornography‚ possession of an unregistered anaesthetic drug and contravening the Immigration Act.

He was also convicted of contravening the Firearms Control Act and illegal possession of firearms.

He lived under the radar for almost a decade until the gruesome find set in motion an investigation to determine whether he had removed female genitalia in illegal operations.

Just how a fugitive from justice‚ convicted in 2006 of weapons crimes in Denmark‚ settled in South Africa‚ got an identity document and became the registered owner of a gun shop with R4-million in stock was as baffling as the gruesome discovery that led to his arrest‚ reported the Sunday Times in 2015.

Charges related to the removal of human tissue were dropped in September when the court found that the National Health Act was not clear about penalties for such transgressions.

“The accused is certainly not a man of high moral standing. He simultaneously married two women and was involved with people who believed in Satanism‚” said Judge Daffue.

He was arrested after a domestic dispute that began when he reported his then 28-year-old wife to social services. Members of the Hawks descended on his townhouse in Bloemfontein.

‘‘When she was called in‚ she [said] there were certain body parts stored in his freezer‚” said Hawks investigator Warrant Officer Lynda Steyn.

Frederiksen was arrested back in September after 21 mutilated vaginas were allegedly found in his home. Surgical equipment and anaesthetic drugs were also said to have been found in the property.

It’s believed his wife, 28-year-old Anna Matseliso Molise, told police he drugged her and cut off private parts of her anatomy while she was incapacitated.

Frederiksen, said to own a gun shop, allegedly sedates victims before performing the illegal operations, a police statement said. It is not clear if the severed vaginas were removed when the women were alive – or indeed if they would have survived the attacks. Masilea Langa, a police spokeswoman, said that Frederiksen had kept a clear and organised record of every body part he had removed since his first victim in 2010.