#Uc3 nautilus submarine copenhagen trial

“We believe he is telling the truth when he says she died in the submarine,” the Danish police chief, Steen Hansen, told the Swedish news agency TT.

Police said on Monday that Madsen, who has been accused of negligent manslaughter, “told police and the court that there was an accident onboard the sub that led to the death of Kim Wall, and that he subsequently buried her at sea in an undefined location of the Køge Bay”. Danish authorities have been searching for the reporter, who had been writing a feature story about Madsen, since she failed to return from an interview with him onboard the 18-metre (60ft) Nautilus. The forensic psychiatrist report was entered into the record. This evaluation diagnosed Madsen with a polymorphous perversity with psychopathic traits with a high likelihood of re-offending.Madsen has been charged with the manslaughter of Wall. A cell phone was found on the sub, but it had no memory card. Police have not found Kim’s cell phone and believe Madsen threw it into the ocean. No video has ever surfaced showing any of this. The prosecution theorized that due to the recent cancellation of a project Madsen had been working on he had decided to produce his own snuff film using the Nautilus as the set and Kim as the victim. Instead, he laid down beside Kim’s body for two hours before he started dismembering her. Madsen would testify that this was a goodbye message to his wife as he was contemplating killing himself. “I am on an adventure on the Nautilus. All is well. Madsen sent this message to his wife 20 minutes after Wall died. Text messages between Madsen and his wife were presented as evidence. Madsen’s internet searches were released in court and included terms such as “beheading”, “girl”, “agony.” These searches along with a search of a woman’s throat being cut and various acts of torture and violence toward women were done on Aug(the day before the murder). The prosecution also presented evidence that on August 17, 2017, a witness had seen Madsen walking through a crowd of people gathered for a festival with a saw sticking out of his backpack. Madsen’s wife did not testify due to health-related issues. None of them agreed to accompany him but one, Kim Wall. The court would hear from a number of women who Madsen had invited to come aboard the Nautilus in the spring and summer of 2017. An April 2018 article in The New Yorker, described what all the witnesses presented by the prosecution boiled down to testifying They also presented evidence of Madsen’s sexual lifestyle from not only watching hard-core pornography but also starring in and directing some videos.Ī portrait of a personality without boundaries: a fantasist, a genius inventor, a tech nerd determined to break world records for space and submarine travel, and a man sexually obsessed with snuff movies featuring the torture and murder of women.

Prosecutors presented their evidence of the pre-planned sadistic murder giving gruesome details and presenting all of Madsen’s stories as to what happened.

#Uc3 nautilus submarine copenhagen trial

The trial would last 11 days and be spread out over 7 weeks. Madsen pleads not guilty to murder and only admitted to the dismembering of Kim’s body. He claimed that there had been at first a minor problem with one of the ballast tanks, but as he worked on it it turned into a bigger one causing the sub to sink. When asked about the journalist Kim Wall, Madsen told authorities that he dropped her off outside of a restaurant in the northern tip of Refshaleoen around 10:00 pm the previous night.

Once back on land, Madsen told the police and the media that were there that he was okay, but was sad because the Nautilus had gone down. Once the sub started to sink Madsen climbed up to the tower of the sub and waited for the tower to fill with water before he started to swim to a nearby boat and pulled himself out of the water around 11 am. He then climbed down inside the sub after noticing that there was some airflow coming from below the water and the sub had started to sink. Isbak saw Madsen on the deck of the submarine. He had been notified by the Denmark Navy to be on the lookout for the sub. The next morning the sub was sighted by a boat captain in Koge Bay by the Drogden Lighthouse. Madsen was seen by the captain, Kristian Isbak around 10:30 am.