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posted by martyb on Tuesday October 31 2017, @02:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the misremembering-dismembering dept.

Danish engineer and co-founder of Copenhagen Suborbitals Peter Madsen has admitted to dismembering journalist Kim Wall, but denies murdering her:

Danish police say that inventor Peter Madsen has admitted to dismembering Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who was researching a story in August on board a submarine he built. He denies killing her and maintains that her death was an accident, authorities say.

Madsen was alone when he was rescued from the sinking UC3 Nautilus, which police believe he sunk deliberately. As NPR's Colin Dwyer has reported, he initially claimed that he dropped Wall off safely the same day they set out — then he changed his story, saying he "buried her at sea" after a heavy hatch fell on her head.

Divers later found Wall's severed head in Denmark's Køge Bay. As NPR's Amy Held reported, police said there were "no signs of fracture or blunt force trauma to the skull," casting doubt on Madsen's claims. The head was in a bag weighted down with metal, authorities said.

Now, according to a Copenhagen police statement, Madsen has changed his story once again. He says that Wall died from carbon monoxide poisoning inside the submarine while he was sitting on the submarine's deck. During an interrogation on Oct. 14, police say, Madsen said that after Wall died, he dismembered her body and threw the remains in the bay. "This explanation (by Madsen) naturally will lead the police into gathering additional statements from the coroner and the armed forces' submarine experts," Copenhagen police investigator Jens Møller Jensen said, according to an Associated Press translation.

Also at Ars Technica, The Register, BBC, and NYT.

Previously: Submarine Builder Charged With Manslaughter After Burying Journalist at Sea
Search of "Rocket" Madsen's Space Lab Finds Footage of Woman's Decapitation


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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday October 31 2017, @01:56PM (8 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday October 31 2017, @01:56PM (#590008) Journal

    What is it with technically inclined men? They don't know how to dispose of bodies? No one has found any of mine yet - thank God I'm not 100% techie!!

    I reckon it has to do with the emotional insecurity that comprises most technically inclined men. Part of why they excel at technical subjects is because it is emotionally easier than dealing with people. Machines, science, math, those are all things with quantifiable aspects and known variables, etc, etc, while people, especially women, are random and upsetting and unknowable.

    So a scenario like yours, which I agree is very plausible, becomes quite understandable in that light. He made a pass, she rejected him, and he couldn't handle it. He killed her, but not in a clinical, pre-meditated way, but in panic and emotional outrage. She could ruin him, you see, and put an end to all his funding and important, brilliant work like that in which she was riding--his submarine. That couldn't be allowed, so he had to get rid of her.

    Everything else in the tale follows from that bumbled moment.

    The takeaway should rather be, if a technically inclined man wants to get away with murder he should probably plan it out well in advance instead of improvising on the fly. If what he really wants to do is get a date, he should probably not start down the whole get a woman alone on his submarine path at all and instead invest time and effort in learning how to talk to women like a normal person.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @02:50PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @02:50PM (#590032)

    If what he really wants to do is get a date, he should probably not start down the whole get a woman alone on his submarine path at all and instead invest time and effort in learning how to talk to women like a normal person.

    "Have you tried ... not being a nerd? Just be a normal person!"

    Worst advice ever. Peter Madsen should have dismembered you instead.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @02:59PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @02:59PM (#590039)

      Since you've apparently already been dismembered, I take it you recommend it? Oh, look - isn't that cute. The person who dismembered you stuck your cranium in your rectum. No wonder you have such a shitty outlook!!

    • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday October 31 2017, @04:58PM (3 children)

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday October 31 2017, @04:58PM (#590087) Journal

      So...you recommend dismemberment over dating as less problematic, then?

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      • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday October 31 2017, @07:01PM (2 children)

        by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday October 31 2017, @07:01PM (#590150)

        Hacksaw blades are somewhat easier to chose than flowers.

        • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday October 31 2017, @07:11PM (1 child)

          by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday October 31 2017, @07:11PM (#590160) Journal

          Hacksaw? N00b. Sawzall.

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          • (Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Tuesday October 31 2017, @07:51PM

            by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday October 31 2017, @07:51PM (#590178)

            I always preferred bandsaws in a chilled room, to reduce splatter, but somehow that didn't get enough crowdfunding pledges. Not enough room in the sub, they said.

  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday October 31 2017, @07:17PM (1 child)

    by edIII (791) on Tuesday October 31 2017, @07:17PM (#590164)

    Um, if I had a submarine, I would take a woman on it like a normal person. Especially, if I found a fellow geek and she found it very fucking cool I had my own working submarine. I would be looking for one of those geeks, so we would probably end up on the submarine anyways.

    Maybe not after what this dude did though.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @07:58PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @07:58PM (#590182)

      I would've just got a bunch of whores and drugs on my submarine, but different strokes I guess.