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For three years, Danish inventor Peter Madsen denied murdering Swedish journalist Kim Wall on his submarine. Now he has confessed it, in a documentary. But question marks remain.
Submarine owner Peter Madsen has insisted for three years that the death of Swedish journalist Kim Wall on his ship was an accident. Now he seems to have changed his mind.
For three years, Danish submarine handler Peter Madsen denied murdering Swedish journalist Kim Wall. However, he is serving a life sentence after being found guilty in a globally acclaimed trial in Copenhagen: the court found it proven that Madsen brutally sexually abused the 30-year-old Swede in August 2017 in his submarine “Nautilus”. , dead and dismembered in the sea. Madsen always talked about an accident, but now a change of mind is emerging: In a documentary broadcast on Wednesday, the 50-year-old admits to murder for the first time: “It’s my fault. I committed the crime, ”he explains in a telephone interview recorded from prison.
Confession was hard to come by, as described in the show’s first episode. Danish journalist Kristian Linnemann telephoned Madsen for 20 hours, although Madsen wanted to talk about his life, his achievements as a rocket and submarine builder, not really about the murder. “Stop questioning me,” he once told the journalist. But at some point he talks about the night in the submarine when Kim Wall accompanied him on a trip to the Oresund, because he wanted to write a portrait of the inventor. The journalist asked him questions about “core issues” in his life, Madsen says. “She touched a landmine inside of me. This exploded and nearly killed us both. But in the end only she died. “When the reporter asks if he was scared by Wall’s questions and killed her, Madsen replied with a curt” yes. “
However, he is unwilling to discuss the details of the murder. Coroners had shown through a long series of tests that Wall’s body had many internal and external injuries caused by sharp objects. The court followed the prosecution’s argument that Madsen was a cynical sexual murderer who tortured his victim with “medieval torture methods”. The murder was also planned. When asked about it, Madsen blocked today. On the show, he simply claims that he doesn’t know how Wall died. It was probably stress or shock from “things I said,” then he passed out and didn’t wake up anymore.
This photo of Swedish journalist Kim Wall was taken in 2015.
The documentary is not sensational, but it tries to classify with the help of experts. They find Madsen’s confession interesting, even if they don’t doubt the brutal murder, and Madsen is known as a liar. So he had always come up with new versions of what happened to Kim Wall: A hatch fell on his head, he says first. He later named a sudden drop in pressure as the cause of death. But now Madsen has said more than previously known, and he may not even realize it, says forensic psychiatrist Henrik Poulsen.
Former homicide detective Kurt Kragh said that a person with such narcissistic and psychopathic traits would always try to shake off responsibility. “Peter Madsen is not stupid,” he says, as a sex offender, he has no interest in getting it all out. But Kragh sees some credibility in Madsen’s description, also because he basically blames Kim Wall – his awkward questions were the trigger. Finally, Madsen makes a statement admitting to the act, but justifying it as an impulsive act: “I was never violent” until the fatal night on the submarine. This will not change anything about your life sentence.
