Discussion: Danish Inventor Admits Mutilating Swedish Journalist, Still Denies Murder

I think I’ve heard more about this incident already than I really want to know.

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She was a classmate of my son-in-law and his friends at LSE/SIPA. They are devastated.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/world/europe/kim-wall-peter-madsen-submarine.html
COPENHAGEN — A Danish inventor’s explanation of how the journalist Kim Wall died on his submarine was further cast into doubt after an autopsy revealed she had been stabbed more than 14 times and the police found video footage of slain women on a hard drive linked to the suspect.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/03/denmark-submarine-trip-journalist-kim-wall-stabbed-15-times
Madsen told a hearing last month that the journalist died when a 70kg hatch cover fell on her head while she was climbing on to the deck of the surfaced submarine. “It was a terrible accident, a disaster,” he said.

Feeling “suicidal”, he attached a metal weight around her waist so her body would sink, and planned to sink his submarine, taking his own life, he said. “In my shock I thought it was the right thing to do,” he told the court.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/12/danish-divers-find-saw-possibly-linked-kim-wall-murder/

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Mutilated a journalist?

Watch Donnie try to pardon him…

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You know, this article really doesn’t come up to the standards of this web-site

If that picture is of Madsen, it an OLD pic.

And there is a LOT more info on the internet as to what the PROSECUTORS say happened.

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In Sweden, changing your story five times is considered evidence of guilt. In America, it’s just another story that has to be treated as the functional equivalent of the truth and the fact that the story changed isn’t to be mentioned in straight news stories–only by opinionators, because the fact that a story keeps changing is apparently not a fact.

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I am not really sure why I am responding but I dont understand why you take issue with the article. Its a AP story updated today with the latest twist to this bizarre case. The photo is not current (as he is in jail) but I believe is considered relevant because it shows the submarine.

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