Peter Madsen has told a number of lies from the very beginning. At first, he claimed that he had sailed her back to the harbour and let her off the submarine near the place where he had picked her up. Apparently he didn't know that security cameras were covering the area. When the torso drifted ashore, he claimed that he had buried her at sea, but hadn't dismembered her, and that her death was due to an accident (the hatch). Then arms, legs and head were recovered, wrapped in plastic and weighed down by steel rods, I think, and showing no signs of trauma from the hatch, so he now claims that she was killed by accidental carbon-monoxide poisoning, but then there are the stab wound to the genital area ...
And, of course, in the meantime the videos of beheadings of women have been discovered on his computer, but since other people had access to it, he claims that they must have been put there by somebody else. And then there are his visits to the fetish clubs ...
Suspecting him of being a serial killer, the police in Denmark, Sweden and Norway have been comparing his fingerprints and DNA with those of related unsolved crimes, but he doesn't seem to have been involved with those. Considering that he was well aware of a large number of witnesses seeing and even photographing him with her on the submarine in the Copenhagen harbour, it seems likely that he wasn't an 'experienced' serial killer.
I don't know if he assumed that his celebrity status would let him get away with it ...
A Danish writer of fiction made a stupid remark about Kim Wall in a recent interview. In spite of a very good beginning, it goes like this:
»Det er ALDRIG kvindens ansvar, om en mand beslutter sig for at forgribe sig på hende. Men når det er sagt, så … Altså når jeg ser billederne af offeret, måden, hun har ladet sig fotografere på, og det blik, hun sender kameraet … jeg er nødt til at være ærlig, for det er vores arbejde at være ærlige, og jeg kan ikke lade være med at tænke, at her er en pige, der søger fare. Her er en pige, der søger … usædvanlige situationer, en pige, der godt kan lide at sætte sig selv på spil, og en pige, som har meget frihed og frimodighed i sig. For det er jo altså … fuldstændig vanvittigt som kvinde at gå om bord i en ubåd med en mand, man ikke kender.«
Danskere dybt forbavsede over kendt forfatters udtalelse om Kim Wall: ’Det er meget forkert af mig’ (BT, Jan. 25, 2018)
My translation:
”The woman is NEVER responsible if a man decides to victimize her. But having said that, …. That is, when I see the photos of the victim, the way she has let herself be photographed and the look she sends to the camera … I have to be honest, because that is our profession, to be honest, and I can’t help thinking that this is a girl who is seeking danger. Here is a girl who seeks out unusual situations, a girl who likes to risk herself, and a girl who has so much freedom and boldness inside her. Because it is … totally crazy for a woman to board a submarine with a man she doesn’t know.”
To which a Danish comedian responded:
https://twitter.com/SanneSonder/status/956555662196133889
Når jeg ser Jens Christian Grøndahl, måden han har ladet sig citere i Femina, og det blik han sender kameraet... jeg kan ikke lade være at tænke, at her er en mand, der søger at blive lagt for had.
(Sanne Søndergaard, Twitter, Jan. 25, 2018)
My translation:
”When I see Jens Christian Grøndahl, the way he has let himself be quoted in Femina, and the look he sends to the camera … I can’t help thinking that here’s a man who wants people to hate him.”
Grøndahl victim blames Kim Wall (heartbeats.dk, Jan. 25, 2018)
In the meantime, he has apologized unconditionally for his remark, and actually seems to understand that he was wrong.
