James Schmidt (born Lual Yai Fayin Lual in 1992) is a South Sudanese-born Danish serial killer and rapist who killed three pensioners in Copenhagen's Østerbro district from February to March 2019, just two years after being released after serving out a 7-year prison sentence for raping a 14-year-old girl as a juvenile. After initially being convicted for two of the murders and acquitted of the third, he was tried again and successfully convicted in all three, resulting in a life sentence.