Through the dark wood where the dead trees give no shelter Nanna Birk Larsen runs.
Officers recaptured him less than a mile from the prison.A page-turning adaptation of the first season of the original Danish television series The Killing, from the author of the Nic Costa series. Madsen made headlines once again in October of 2020 when he escaped from Herstedvester Prison carrying a "pistol-like" object, with a fake bomb strapped to his chest. The court also ordered him to pay an amount equal to approximately 19,700 USD to Wall’s boyfriend, as well as for the submarine to be destroyed.
During the trial, which began on March 8, 2018, he spoke about himself in third and first person, switching between present and past tense, made many movie references, and even apologized for his account of the crime “sounding like a bad movie.” He also said he initially lied to “protect” Wall’s parents from the truth of her “gruesome” death, and when questioned about the violent videos he watched, explained that watching women suffer brought out his “empathy” and “tendency to always root for the underdog.” At the end of the weeks-long, high profile trial, Peter Madsen was sentenced to life in prison on April 25, 2018. His trial, which is about to begin at the close of The Investigation, was among the most watched in Scandanivan history. The inventor was known to attend sex fetish parties, and his workshop colleagues said he was hot-tempered and erratic. Madsen, at the center of the grueling, shocking case-there are only approximately 50 murders per year in all of Denmark-became a main character in the Scandanivan media at the time. On January 16, 2018, a new indictment for Madsen was released, for homicide that “took place with prior planning and preparation” as well as “sexual relations other than intercourse of a particularly dangerous nature, as well as for dismemberment.” A web search including the terms “beheading,” “girl,” and “agony” was made on August 9, 2017, the night before Wall was murdered. A woman Madsen had a sexual relationship with turned over texts where he told her he had a murder plan hatched out on his submarine which involved cutting a woman up. Later, videos of women being decapitated, impaled, and tortured were found on his hard drive by the police. Madsen’s story evolved as the case developed: he said that there was a technical malfunction on the sub, that Wall died from carbon monoxide poisoning in the bottom part of the submarine, and that he dismembered her body in order to carry it easier. The Investigation chronicles faithfully and in great detail the grueling months of searching and diving that followed that eventually yielded Kim Wall’s head, arms, legs, clothing, and a saw from the water. Madsen’s charge was changed to manslaughter. He never dropped her off on land, but carried her body out of the submarine and “buried her at sea.” On August 21, a torso washed ashore near where the submarine had sunk, and DNA testing revealed it to be Wall’s. A hatch had fallen on Wall’s head, and she had died onboard. The following day, Madsen’s story changed. Although the inventor told the police that he had dropped Kim Wall off on shore the previous evening, he was arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter. Madsen swam to a rescue boat, but there was no sign of Wall. on the morning of August 11, the submarine was located by the Danish Navy. When Kim Wall hadn’t come home or been in contact by 1:45 a.m., her boyfriend called the police. She was the fourth woman that Madsen had invited that day for a ride on his vessel, but the first to accept. Wall was set for a two-hour ride, from 7-9 p.m.
Even though it was the night of her and her boyfriend’s going away party-the couple was moving from Copenhagen to Beijing-she agreed to skip her own party to meet Danish inventor Peter Madsen and take a ride on his self-made submarine for an interview. On August 10, 2017, Kim Wall got a text from a source she hadn’t heard back from in months.
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