PETER Madsen is known as the evil inventor who brutally murdered a Swedish journalist.
The twisted man killed Kim Wall when she visited him on his homemade submarine to research a story.
Who is Peter Madsen?
Inventor Peter Madsen was the skipper of the UC3 Nautilus, a private submarine he designed and built in 2008.
Born in 1971, Madsen grew up in the small town of Saeby, 100km west of Copenhagen.
His parents divorced when he was six and Madsen went to live with his father, whom he has described as authoritarian and violent.
Aged 15, he started his first company, Danish Space Academy, to buy spare parts to build a rocket.
He studied engineering, but quit the course once he thought he knew enough to build submarines and rockets.
In 2008, he launched the Nautilus, the biggest privately made submarine whose ownership was later transferred to him after a row with former colleagues.
Around the same time, he developed his idea for private space travel.
In June 2011, he successfully launched a rocket from a floating platform on the Baltic Sea island of Bornholm.
Why did he murder Swedish journalist Kim Wall?
Madsen was found guilty of murdering Swedish journalist Kim Wall on board his UC3 Nautilus submarine in August 2017.
He was convicted of premeditated murder and sexual assault after previously admitting to dismembering Ms Wall’s body on the submarine and throwing her remains overboard.
Kim Wall, 30, was a journalist from Sweden who went missing on August 10, 2017.
She was last seen on Madsen’s homemade submarine, which she boarded at the Bay of Køge, Denmark, for a feature on the 40-tonne craft.
According to prosecutors, Madsen invited Ms Wall on to his miniature submarine so he could fulfil the most vile and violent of sexual fantasies.
They allege he brought a saw, knife and sharpened screwdrivers to the vessel where he invited Ms Wall to conduct an interview.
Prosecutors also argued that Madsen strangled or beheaded his victim after torturing her.
An indictment claims he stabbed her several times, cutting off her head and limbs before throwing her body parts into the sea.
Madsen admitted dismembering his victim in the bathroom of the vessel after she died accidentally on board but refused to go into detail because it was “so horrible”.
He told a court in Copenhagen that he thought of 1995 hit Se7en as he cut off Wall’s head – adding that he didn’t think there was anything “unusual” about that.
Where is Peter Madsen now?
Madsen is serving life in jail in Herstedvester Prison, just outside Copenhagen.
However, on October 20, 2020, he briefly escaped from prison by threatening a prison employee said to be a psychologist, using a “pistol like object”, before fleeing equipped with what he claimed to be a bomb belt.
However, the bomb squad was deployed and Madsen was surrounded and apprehended by police 500 metres from the prison, subsequently being taken back into custody.
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Is Peter Madsen married?
Madsen is married to a woman named Jenny Curpen.
Jenny married Madsen on December 19, 2019, according to her Facebook page.
He reportedly previously had an open marriage, with some of his ex-girlfriends telling reporters that he was into sado-masochism and erotic asphyxiation.
Others have described him as an erratic person who had spats with former colleagues and an interest in violent porn.
It has been claimed that Madsen texted his ex-wife, who he married in 2011 and whose name has not been disclosed, just 20 minutes after Ms Wall’s death.
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