A court in Copenhagen just found Peter Madsen, the Danish inventor, guilty of what prosecutors called the “heinous and repulsive” killing of Swedish journalist Kim Wall when she went to interview him on his 56-foot homemade submarine last August 10. (The picture above right shows the two of them on the sub.)
Madsen, 47, admitted dismembering her body and discarding it at sea, but said her death was an accident. The court found him guilty of premediated killing and sentenced him to a life in prison. Prosecutors said he bound, tortured, stabbed and sexually assaulted Wall, 30. They said he deliberately sank the sub after killing her; a passing boat rescued him from the water. Wall’s dismembered body was found in waters near Copenhagen over a period of weeks.
A freelance journalist, Wall had written for The New York Times and many other publications. She thought she was going for a two-hour ride for the story. Read more:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43894495
