A Danish inventor has been found guilty of torturing and murdering a freelance woman journalist onboard his private submarine.
What happened?
The 47 year old Danish inventor Peter Madsen has been sentenced to life in person for torturing and murdering a 30 year old Swedish freelance woman journalist Kim Wall onboard his private submarine.
The judgement was handed over by Judge Anette Burkoe at the Copenhagen City Court. The judgment was unanimously decided by the Judge and her two jurors who held Madsen guilty of murdering Ms.Kim and for his failure to give a ‘trustworthy’ explanation.
Brutal murder
Madsen lured Ms.Wall to his private submarine by promising her to provide an interview she had been trying to get for months. However, on August 10, she was last seen on August 10 waving to her boyfriend and other friends ashore as the submarine sailed off into the Baltic and she was reported missing by her boyfriend the next day when she failed to return and only Madsen returned ashore.
Madsen was arrested in connection with Kim’s disappearance after his submarine sank off Denmark’s eastern coast, an event police said they suspected he had caused on purpose. Throughout the trial, he claimed that Ms.Wall died accidentally after she hit her head by the hatch inside the submarine but later changed his story.
Confessed to murder
Two days later, her dismembered torso was found at sea off Copenhagen, and other body parts were found in plastic bags in October. Finally, after her decapitated head was found by police divers in a weighted-down bag along with her appendages and the skull showed no signs of fracture.
He initially denied dismembering her, then confessed that he had done so and said he had thrown her body parts into the Baltic Sea.
Planned assault and murder
The judge quoted, “We are talking about a cynical and planned sexual assault and brutal murder of a random woman, who in connection with her journalistic work had accepted an offer to go sailing in the defendant’s submarine. Evidence also show he has shown interest for killing and maiming of people and has shown interest for impaling”.
Prosecutor Buch-Jepsen claimed, “Ms Wall’s murder was sexually motivated and premeditated because Madsen brought along tools he normally didn’t take when sailing, including a saw and sharpened screwdrivers”.
The cause of death has never been established but the court found that Madsen cut the body into pieces to hide what had happened.
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Source:Daily Record
