Danish submarine owner admits to dismembering journalist
STOCKHOLM: Danish inventor Peter admitted that he later dismembered Madsen has admitted dismembering her corpse and spread the body parts the corpse of Swedish journalist Kim in Koge Bay” off Copenhagen. Wall, whose body parts were found Police also said Madsen was at sea after she interviewed him on suspected of having “sexual relations board his homemade submarine, other than intercourse... under Danish police said on Monday. particularly aggravated circumstances,
Madsen, who is suspected of based on the 14 stab wounds to and murdering Wall, has until now denied around Kim Wall’s genital area.” mutilating her body. That was believed to have taken
In earlier police questioning, the place shortly after her death, police said. 46-year-old said she had died in an Prosecutors have previously said accident when a heavy submarine they believe Madsen killed Wall as part hatch fell on her head, but he has now of a sexual fantasy, then dismembered changed his story to say she died of her body and tossed the parts into the carbon monoxide poisoning,sea.police said in a statement. Investigators found a hard disk in
“He has now explained that Madsen’s workshop that contained Kim Wall died as a result of carbon fetish films in which women were monoxide poisoning inside the tortured, decapitated and burned submarinealive.atatimewhenhewason deck,” police said. Madsen has denied any sexual
“Furthermore, relations with Wall, and insisted the Peter Madsen has hard drive did not belong to him.
Wall failed to return from an interview with Madsen on board his homemade submarine on August 10.
Her headless torso was found floating in Koge Bay off Copenhagen on August 21, and her head, legs and clothes were recovered in plastic bags in the same waters on October 7.
Wall, 30, worked as a freelance journalist based in New York and China, and her articles were published in the Guardian, The New York Times and others.
Madsen, a 46-year-old self-taught engineer who is married, has been held in custody since August 11 and has changed his version of events several times.
After intentionally sinking his submarine early on August 11 in Koge Bay, some 50 kilometres from the Danish capital, he was picked up by a rescue vessel and told police he had dropped Wall off on land after their interview the previous evening.
On September 5, he changed his story to say a 70-kilo hatch fell on her head, killing her, and that he threw her body, intact, overboard in a panic.
But police said on October 7 they had located her decapitated head and an autopsy showed no sign of a skull injury.
The carbon monoxide poisoning explanation now “gives the police reason to request further information from the forensic coroner and the military’s submarine experts,” police inspector Jens Moller Jensen said in the statement.
Police said divers were still searching for Wall’s arms, and both her and Madsen’s cell phones.
Madsen is an eccentric, known figure in Denmark.
He has successfully launched rockets with the aim of developing private space travel.
And his homemade submarine Nautilus, launched in 2008, was the biggest private sub ever made when he built it with help from a group of volunteers.
A court hearing to extend Madsen’s custody had been scheduled for Tuesday, but the hearing has been cancelled as he no longer contests his detention, police said.
Preliminary trial dates have been set for March and April, police said. well-