Peter Madsen (designer)

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Peter Madsen (November 2010)

Peter Langkjær Madsen (born January 12, 1971 ) is a Danish designer and murderer. He was convicted of the murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall in 2018 . The act took place on board his self-constructed submarine UC3 Nautilus . In addition to other privately financed submarine structures, Madsen was also involved in missile projects.

biography

education

Peter Madsen finished his school career with the Danish Abitur. He broke off a later engineering degree .

Submarine construction

UC3 Nautilus 2008

Madsen has built three privately financed submarines. The prototype was the Freya in 2002 . In 2005, the Kraka submarine followed , which was 12 meters long and twice as large as Freya . It weighed eight tons, had a diesel engine with 12 kW and an electric motor with 4.5 kW. Freya had a diving lock through which a diver could leave the boat below.

His last and largest submarine, completed in 2008, was the UC3 Nautilus . With a length of 17.8 meters and a weight of 40 tons when fully equipped, it was probably the largest submarine ever built by a private individual.

Rocket construction

Start of the HEAT-1X-Tycho Brahe on June 3, 2011
The Tycho Deep Space capsule was launched with the rescue rocket on August 12, 2012

Madsen has also been involved in building rocket engines and rockets for many years . He was a member of the Danish “Amateur Rocket Club” and worked in the “Aurora Project Group”. Together with Kristian von Bengtson , he founded the Copenhagen Suborbitals association in 2008 with the aim of bringing a person into space with a privately financed and built rocket in just a few years.

In 2010 the HEAT-1X-Tycho Brahe rocket made a first attempt at launch . This failed, the rocket engine did not ignite. A second start attempt was made on June 3, 2011. The missile reached a height of 2.8 km. On July 27, 2012, the two-stage Smaragd-1 rocket from Copenhagen Suborbitals was successfully launched in the Baltic Sea. On August 11, 2012, the space capsule Tycho Deep Space was launched with the rescue rocket, it reached an altitude of about one kilometer. The rescue rocket was detonated from the space capsule as planned and the capsule landed safely with the help of the parachutes. The first flight of the rocket Sapphire took place on June 23, 2013, where it flew 8.2 km high.

In 2014 Madsen left the Copenhagen Suborbitals after a long argument. He then founded his own rocket company, Raketmadsens Rumlaboratorium , as a competitor .

He had planned the next rocket launch on August 26, 2017. Copenhagen Suborbitals also planned a rocket launch for that day.

Murder of journalist Kim Wall

On the evening of August 10, 2017, Peter Madsen, accompanied by the Swedish journalist Kim Wall, left the port of Copenhagen in the submarine. The journalist had been invited by him for a report at short notice. That same night, her partner filed a missing person report and started a search for the boat. The Nautilus appeared on August 11, south of Copenhagen in the Køgebucht , allegedly with technical problems, and shortly afterwards sank within sight of a yacht. Madsen could be saved; he was immediately arrested by the Danish police and suspected of murdering his companion.

Madsen initially claimed that he dropped Wall on a peninsula by Copenhagen harbor before it went down. Inside the recovered submarine, however, investigators found traces of blood, the underpants and tights of the missing reporter. According to his lawyer, Madsen testified before the examining magistrate on August 12th that Wall had died of an accident on board. Then he threw the still complete and clothed body into the sea (as a burial at sea ). These statements became public on August 21st. On the same day, however, a cyclist found a female torso on the shores of the island of Amager , south of Copenhagen near the Koebucht . The forensic medical analysis showed that the head and limbs had been deliberately severed. 15 stab wounds were found on the torso. A DNA analysis revealed that these were the remains of the missing Kim Wall. A preliminary inquest also indicated that the torso was intended to be held to the ocean floor by a piece of metal attached to it.

On August 24, Madsen specified the alleged accident: Wall had fallen on the tower hatch on her head and she died of the injuries she suffered. However, Wall's skull, found on October 6, showed no injuries on initial examinations. During the investigation, among other things, videos were found on Madsen's hard drive in which women were tortured , tortured, abused and finally killed . At the end of October 2017, in view of the new forensic findings , Madsen changed his statement again, now to the effect that Wall had died of carbon monoxide poisoning in the submarine. Then he cut up the body.

The prosecutor suspected a sexual murder motive based on the nature of the stab wounds on Wall's lower body and the psychiatric examination results . On January 23, 2018, the prosecutor opened charges against Madsen on suspicion of planned and prepared murder and of disturbing the peace of the dead. She believed Madsen tortured Kim Wall before he murdered her and dismembered her body. She called for life imprisonment , a preventive detention . The trial of Madsen, without a jury at his request , began on March 8, 2018 in Copenhagen . During the trial, details of Madsen's personal life were revealed, such as: B. his preference for snuff films and literature dealing with the torture, impalement and killing of women. Convinced of its dangerousness for fellow human beings, the public prosecutor demanded life imprisonment for Madsen. On April 25, 2018, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. After the unanimous verdict of the judges, Madsen had planned his act, his victim tied up, tortured, sexually abused, murdered and dismembered. In addition, he was prosecuted for violations of shipping law . He appealed against the sentence appeal , but do not against conviction. The trial began on September 5, 2018. Madsen's appeal was rejected on September 26, 2018, confirming the verdict.

The submarine was destroyed due to a court order.

Private life

Madsen was married but lived openly promiscuously . Shortly after Kim Wall's death, his wife divorced him. On December 19, 2019, he married the Russian Jenny Curpen in prison.

media

Books:

Films:

Web links

Commons : Peter Madsen  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lars Fogt: Dansker vil sejle jorden rundt i ubåd. In: Avisen.dk. April 29, 2008, accessed August 23, 2017 (Danish).
  2. ↑ Kasper Brøndgaard Andersen: Raket-Madsen: Ingeniørerne shall redde os from the end of the dinosaur. Ingeniøren, 10 October 2010, accessed 23 August 2017 (Danish).
  3. ↑ Peter Madsen's Freya ( Memento of February 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: vulcaniasubmarine.com
  4. ↑ Pete Madsen's Kraka ( Memento of February 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: vulcaniasubmarine.com
  5. ↑ Pulse-jet experiments
  6. ↑ Dave Mosher: The Crazy DIY Spaceflight Project That Just Might Work . In: WIRED . ( wired.com [accessed May 27, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Peter Madsen: Debriefing SMARAGD . ( Memento from February 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Ingeniøren from July 28, 2012 (Danish)
  8. ↑ Copenhagen Suborbitals: Launch Campaign 2012 ( Memento of October 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 21, 2013 (English)
  9. ↑ Test successful: amateur rocket from the hardware store flies 8,000 meters high . In: WirtschaftsWoche , June 26, 2013.
  10. ↑ Our statement on former Copenhagen Suborbitals member Peter Madsen - Copenhagen Suborbitals. Retrieved May 27, 2018 (UK English).
  11. ↑ Mads Wilson: Farvel Peter, goddag til et nyt CS. Ingeniøren, June 10, 2014, accessed August 22, 2017 (Danish).
  12. ↑ a b Danske raketbyggere overbooker samme dag til opsendelse. In: Fyens.dk. August 2, 2017, accessed August 22, 2017 (Danish).
  13. ↑ Missing journalist: Danish submarine tinkerer Madsen under suspicion. In: Spiegel Online . August 12, 2017. Retrieved August 12, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Rhett Jones: Man Charged With Killing Missing Journalist After Crowdfunded Sub Sinks. In: Gizmodo. August 11, 2017, accessed on August 12, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Copenhagen: Danish submarine captain Peter Madsen remains in custody. In: Spiegel Online. August 14, 2017. Retrieved August 15, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Missing Swedish journalist dead, according to submarine owner. In: tagesschau.de. Retrieved August 21, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Washed-up torso is the corpse of missing journalist Kim Wall. In: Der Tagesspiegel. August 23, 2017. Retrieved November 17, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Submarine captain Madsen admits desecration of corpses. In: sueddeutsche.de. September 5, 2017. Retrieved October 11, 2017 .
  19. ↑ a b Murder of journalist Kim Wall again concerns the judiciary. In: Der Tagesspiegel. September 5, 2018, accessed November 17, 2018 .
  20. ↑ This criminal case keeps Denmark in suspense. In: NWZ online , 23 August 2017.
  21. ↑ Missing journalist: Police find female torso. In: t-online.de. Retrieved August 22, 2017 .
  22. ↑ Journalist who has disappeared from the submarine: The body of a woman from the Danish bay is Kim Wall. In: Spiegel Online. August 23, 2017. Retrieved August 23, 2017 .
  23. ↑ Kim Wall's body identified. In: Tagesschau Online , 23 August 2017.
  24. ↑ Madsen explains how Kim Wall died. In: n-tv.de. September 5, 2017. Retrieved October 11, 2017 .
  25. ↑ Investigators find the head of dead Swedish journalist Kim Wall. In: Spiegel Online , October 7, 2017.
  26. ^ U-boat builder Peter Madsen is said to have saved execution videos. In: Der Tagesspiegel , October 4, 2017, accessed on September 5, 2018.
  27. ↑ Madsen admits dismemberment of corpse . In: ORF.at , October 30, 2017.
  28. ↑ murder defendant submarine Bauer denies sexual motive. In: zeit.de , March 21, 2018.
  29. ↑ Public prosecutor about the accused inventor Madsen: "Highly sexually abnormal". In: focus.de , March 9, 2018.
  30. ^ Indictment published: Submarine builder Madsen mistreated journalist before murder. In: rp-online.de , January 23, 2018.
  31. ↑ Murder charges reveal details: Madsen allegedly tortured Kim Wall. In: n-tv.de , January 23, 2018.
  32. ↑ Madsen is said to have tortured a journalist before she died. In: Basler Zeitung , January 23, 2018.
  33. ↑ U-boat builder charged with murdering journalist. In: Tages-Anzeiger , January 16, 2018.
  34. ↑ Case of Kim Wall: More and more harrowing details about her death come to light. In: GMX News. March 8, 2018, accessed March 8, 2018 .
  35. ↑ Corpse dismembered and sunk - defendant does not want a jury . In: orf.at , March 8, 2018.
  36. ↑ Submarine case: Madsen talked to a woman about doing murder porn. In: nzz.ch , March 26, 2018.
  37. ↑ Public prosecutor's office demands life imprisonment for submarine builders. In: tagesanzeiger.ch , April 23, 2018.
  38. ↑ Peter Madsen sentenced to life imprisonment. In: Spiegel Online. April 25, 2018. Retrieved April 25, 2018 .
  39. ↑ Madsen appeals life imprisonment. In: tagesanzeiger.ch. Retrieved July 9, 2018 .
  40. ↑ Murder verdict against submarine builder: Peter Madsen challenges sentence. In: Spiegel Online. May 7, 2018. Retrieved July 9, 2018 .
  41. ↑ The murder case comes back to court in the fall. In: Spiegel Online. May 15, 2018, accessed September 6, 2018 .
  42. ↑ Lawyer calls for a lighter sentence for Peter Madsen. In: Spiegel Online. September 5, 2018, accessed September 6, 2018 .
  43. Jump up ↑ Judgment on murder - court rejects Peter Madsen's appeal. In: Spiegel Online , September 26, 2018.
  44. ↑ Peter Madsen's submarine was dismantled
  45. ↑ What really happened in the submarine? In: Westfalenpost , March 9, 2018.
  46. ^ Inventor Madsen wrote a farewell SMS. In: n-tv .de . March 28, 2018, accessed April 6, 2018.
  47. ↑ Artist marries infamous Danish submarine killer . January 14, 2020 ( bbc.com [accessed January 18, 2020]).
  48. ↑ Amateurs in Space . film-Rezensions.de, November 5, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Madsen, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Madsen, Peter Langkjær (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish sex killer / engineer
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1971