Twelve days are waiting: They will witness the submarine case
There will be a large number of witnesses who will testify, among other things, about Peter Madsen's conduct and statements when the trial starts Thursday.
200 people have been questioned and about 37 people will explain during the twelve working days of the submarine case, where Peter Madsen is accused of sexually maltreating and killing Kim Wall after prior planning and subsequent dismembering her body. He denies guilty of the first two counts, but acknowledges the dismembering.
Among the witnesses will both be former rocket comrades from Copenhagen Suborbitals and Raket-Madsen Rum Laboratory, Peter Madsen's mistress, forensic and technical witnesses and other witnesses who can give a picture of Peter Madsen's statements and conduct in general and in the period up to 10 August . Including both witnesses led by prosecutor and defense.
Prosecutor Jakob Buch-Jepsen is probably going through the schedule and which witnesses to be questioned on the first day of the trial on Thursday, but already it is possible to reveal some of the witnesses being questioned.
Misstress are going to explain.
One of them is Peter Madsen's mistress for many years, Deirdre King, who has herself told her that she kas been subpoenaed on March 26 at 14:45. She has previously said that she has had sex with Peter Madsen aboard the submarine and has told about his sexual preferences, which means that he likes women in high heels and red lipstick, role playing and a little mask every now and then. But she has not experienced him as sadistic.
Likewise, it is likely that the artist-woman, who, in an article in the Wired magazine, told that she was a former mistress and friend with Peter Madsen, must be questioned as a witness. She told the article that she had seen or talked to Madsen every day during the weeks up to Kim Wall's death and that she a few days before asked Madsen to motivate her with a threat because she was struggling to finish a video project .
It started, according to the woman, with ordinary sex talk, but went further to that he had a murder plane in the submarine, what tools he would use, and that he would eventually invite a friend to the submarine and cut her up. Correspondence is given to the police.
Also, a female Australian film director who was making a documentary with Peter Madsen and his rocket project interviewed him the same day as he sailed with Kim Wall, according to Ekstra Bladet's information, should explain, just as his agent and Investor in the Raketmadsen Rum Laboratory, which owns a portion of the submarine Nautilus, which the prosecutor want to have confiscated and destroyed.
Talked about death fascination
According to the prosecutor, at the first prolonging of the custody court-meeting, another woman witness explained that Peter Madsen spoke of death fascination. It became more and more extreme, but it was her belief that he would not do anything like killing. She described Peter Madsen as one who sometimes stayed out of sex, other times he was manic about it and should always exceed what he had already tried. Death and sex were Peter's big issue up to the accident, she explained. It will therefore be obvious that she will be called to court to explain Peter Madsen's preferences and state of mind up to the trip with Kim Wall.
By the same prolonging meeting of custody, it emerged that the police have spoken to a woman who had sex with Peter Madsen aboard the submarine but has not been in contact with him since 2014. She has stated that he was most interested in ordinary sex, which will probably be something that the defense is interested in.
The chairman of Copenhagen Suborbitals, according to Ekstra Bladet's information, must also explain the matter. It has previously been stated that he has explained that Peter Madsen has spoken to him about how to best save a life at sea.
In the prolonging meeting of custody, Peter Madsen denied that there had been such a conversation and that the witness was from the competing rocket association with which he had a "very evil and horrible divorce" so he could have every motivation to turn things to hurt Peter Madsen.
In addition, according to Ekstra Bladet's information, two foreign engineering students have been called, former interns in the Rumlaboratorium and Copenhagen Suborbitals.
Autopsy Center
The explanation of the coroner will be central to the case, and his explanation of the autopsy of Kim Wall will probably be central and comprehensive. Among other things, the cause of death is still unknown, but it may be strangeling or suffocation, according to the accusations. This wording clearly comes from the forensic statement and will be something that the forensic doctor should explain.
Likewise, Peter Madsen, when he changed his explanation that Kim Wall had a hatch in her head, after the head was found on the bottom of the ocean without fractures, said that Kim Wall might die as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning down in the submarine while he was standing in the tower.
This explanation should probably also be clarified by an expert in submarines who examined the submarine as a crime scene, and who can comment on the technical design of the submarine and whether the actual conditions in the submarine support Peter Madsens last explanation. There were also submarine experts who found that the submarine was lowered on purpose, which Peter Madsen himself subsequently acknowledged that he did by opening the submarines valves.
In addition, there will probably also be a computer expert who can testify of the investigation of the computer seized at the Raketmadsen Space Laboratory, which has led to a hard disk with fetish, torture and killing videos on women.
"It is our opinion that there are video recordings of real killings on women who have been killed by carcasses, hanging and burning," said special prosecutor Jakob Buch-Jepsen, and it would be relevant to conduct a witness that could explain how they have studied it.
Peter Madsen himself said that 'the computer and the removable media removed from the Raket-Madsen Space Lab are not my property. It's not necessarily my videos'. He pointed out that others had access to these, including a trainee who had access to the workshop.
- I might add that there are also some of the people from the workshop, who have expressed interest in the subjects he said in court.
Planning important theme
An important part of the evidence issue in the case is whether Peter Madsen is guilty of killing after prior planning and preparation by bringing saw, knife, tapered screwdrivers, straps, strips and pipes on board the submarine.
It has previously been discovered that the police have spoken with a witness who saw Madsen go towards the workshop with a white handbag with orange handle on the day that the submarine sailed out, as he carried over his shoulder.
He, according to the witness, looked fast and targeted and acted as he did not want any contact. During the first prolonging custody-meeting, Peter Madsen rejected that there was a saw aboard the submarine as they sailed out, but after a saw was found at the bottom of Køge Bay, he recognized that it was the saw that was used to the dismembering.
It will also be relevant for the prosecutor to determine which items are usually onboard the submarine to make it probable whether effects such as saw, strips and pipes had its places on the submarine.
Likewise, it would be relevant to have a testimony about who handled the saw-machine at Raket-Madsen Rum Laboratory, which is probably used to cut the tubes found around Kim Walls limbs. Peter Madsen has previously said that he did not handle the saw machine used to cut pipes, but that it was a trainee task.
Finally, Kim Wall's Danish boyfriend, who can tell about the opt-out of the interview trip with the submarine, is likely to testify. He has previously explained that he received sms from her along the way and eventually reported her missing when she did not come home as agreed.
