The bow of the 250-foot-long (76 meters) submarine stabbed into the seafloor some 400 feet (120 m) below the water's surface, slanting upward with the boat's stern floating 65 feet (20 m) above the bottom of the sea.Īccording to the museum, the boat embarked from Denmark with 58 crewmembers, all of whom perished in the bombing.
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The trial at Copenhagen's City Court ends April 25.Researchers with the museum found the half-buried wreckage of U-3523 about 10 nautical miles north of Skagen, the northernmost city in Denmark. He did not make the videos himself, investigators said. Police believe Madsen sank the submarine on purpose, and later found videos of women being tortured and killed on his personal computer in his hangar. In an interview with Danish weekly Soendagsavisen in 2014, Madsen said he one day "hoped to have a criminal career," adding he didn't want to rob a bank because "no one must be hurt." In 2011, it launched a homemade nine-meter (30-foot) rocket eight kilometers (five miles) into the sky over the Baltic Sea, a step toward its unrealized goal of launching a person into space. Madsen was a co-founder of Copenhagen Suborbitals, a private aerospace consortium to develop and construct manned spacecraft. Wall, who had previously reported on topics including tourism in post-earthquake Haiti, studied at Paris' Sorbonne university, the London School of Economics and Columbia University in New York.Ĭaterina Clerici, a friend from Columbia, said Wall had "a soft spot for misfits, for places and people that did not conform." Madsen reported "man overboard" over the radio and was then picked up alone.Īnders Valdsted, Scanpix Denmark, AFP | Kim Wall poses for photos onboard the UC3 Nautilus, on Augin the Copenhagen harbour The 33-ton, nearly 18-meter-long submarine sank south of Copenhagen shortly after being spotted afloat. In the recording, Madsen said he had let Wall off on an island, and that there were no injured persons aboard but only technical problems. 11 - the day after Madsen and Wall embarked on their submarine trip- was also played.
An audio file of a radio exchange between Madsen and maritime officials from Aug. Members of the court were shown a drawing of the multiple stabs to Wall's torso. But he said Wall's blood was found on Madsen's nose and his bodysuit, and he also said that detectives found violent videos and texts about killing women on Madsen's laptop and an external hard drive. The prosecution claims Wall's murder was premeditated because Madsen brought along tools he normally didn't take when sailing.īuch-Jepsen said the cause of Wall's death has yet not been established. "There was a risk of having a submarine with two deaths," he told the court. He added that he tried to give her first aid when he finally reached her, but stopped because it was impossible to stay inside.
On Thursday, he described how he found Wall lifeless after a sudden pressure problem in the submarine. Then he said that Wall died accidentally inside the submarine when a hatch fell and hit her on the head. He initially told authorities he had dropped Wall off on an Copenhagen island several hours into their submarine trip. Madsen had offered shifting explanations for Wall's death prior to the trial. He said Wall "had a wonderful evening until it ended in an accident," but denied that any sexual activity had taken place between them. Testifying, Madsen repeated his claim that Wall died accidentally inside the UC3 Nautilus while he was on deck. Wall's parents were also present Thursday at the trial. Madsen, wearing glasses, a dark shirt and jeans, listened quietly with his fists closed. Tom Wall / family handout / AFP file picture Kim Wall, a freelance journalist, boarded Peter Madsen's submarine on the evening of Augto interview him for a story.
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