Phil1111 1,182 #1 August 21, 2017 Homemade submarine maker: I buried missing reporter at sea HELSINKI -- Danish police say the owner of a home-built submarine has told investigators that a missing female Swedish journalist died onboard in an accident, and he buried her at sea in an unspecified location. Copenhagen police said Monday that submarine owner Peter Madsen will continue to be held on preliminary manslaughter charges. Police declined to provide more details.... Kim Wall, a 30-year-old journalist reported to be aboard Madsen's submarine UC3 Nautilus on an assignment, disappeared more than a week ago. Madsen has denied any wrongdoing, and initially denied any role in her disappearance. The sub sank Aug. 11. Madsen previously said he last saw Wall when he dropped her off on an island off Copenhagen on August 10 after she conducted an interview with him on the submarine. Police said Monday that Madsen "told police and the court that there was an accident onboard the sub that led to the death of Kim Wall, and that he subsequently buried her at sea in an undefined location of the Køge Bay," according to The Guardian of Britain. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/homemade-submarine-peter-madsen-missing-journalist-kim-wall-buried-at-sea-accident-denmark/ Madsen made headlines when he successfully financed the building of the 40-tonne, 18-metre Nautilus through crowdfunding, completing it in 2008.... Kristian Isbak, who had responded to the navy’s call to help locate the ship, sailed out immediately Friday and saw Madsen standing wearing his trademark military fatigues in the submarine’s tower while it was still afloat. “He then climbed down inside the submarine and there was then some kind of air flow coming up and the submarine started to sink,” Isbak said. “[He] came up again and stayed in the tower until water came into it”, before swimming to a nearby boat as the submarine sank, he added. Madsen “told us he had technical problems” to explain why the submarine failed to respond to radio contact, Damgaard said. https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/aug/13/submarine-maker-held-as-search-for-kim-wall-continues Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
