Madsen admits to mutilating corpse
Danish inventor Peter Madsen has admitted to dismembering Swedish journalist Kim Wall on board his submarine in August and dumping her body parts in the sea, but he still denies killing her, police said yesterday.
The police said in a statement Madsen had told them in an October 14 interrogation that Wall, 30, had died from carbon monoxide poisoning inside the submarine, while he was on the deck of the vessel.
In past court hearings, Madsen said that Wall had died accidentally after being hit by a heavy hatch cover on his UC3 Nautilus submarine.
The police also said they would now extend the charges against Madsen — which already include murder and mutilating Wall’s body — to include sexual assault without intercourse, based on 14 interior and exterior stab wounds to the journalist’s genitals.
Madsen denies the murder and sexual assault charges.
Wall, a freelance journalist who was researching a story on Madsen, went missing after he took her out to sea in the 17-metre submarine in August.
On August 23, police identified a headless female torso that washed ashore in Copenhagen as Wall’s.
Madsen has accepted the prosecutor’s request to extend his custody until November 15, his lawyer said, meaning he will not appear in court today.