Sub slay: I knifed her, but didn’t kill
THE DANISH inventor accused of killing journalist Kim Wall did not deny stabbing her in the head the night she died aboard his homemade submarine or watching a beheading video the day before.
Peter Madsen took the stand in Copenhagen and again denied that he killed the 30-year-old Swede, a Columbia Journalism School graduate who was writing a story about him.
The court saw two videos from Madsen’s computer, one animated and one real, of beheadings that he watched before Wall’s death last August, with prosecutors alleging he watched the real one the night before he killed Wall (photo).
They also saw an animated clip of a naked woman being impaled, part of what appeared to be an effort to establish a sick sexual motive for the killing.
Madsen has said Wall died in an air pressure accident aboard the submarine, but he admitted Wednesday in court that he chopped her body into the pieces later found in the water, according to Sky News.
There is no official cause of death for Wall, which a former prosecutor told the Daily News at the start of the trial makes the case difficult to try.
However, prosecutors pointed out that the journalist had “many” stab wounds on her head, which Madsen did not deny causing but said took place after her head was already in a plastic bag.
Prosecutors said that there were only two holes in the bag.