THE MADSEN CASE, FINAL PART
Claes Levin followed this on television as well as the downward spiral of the Copenhagen Suborbitals. Today he went to the workshop because the navigation system didn't leave him in peace. It should at least be disposed of properly. But it's all gone, movies were found here where women are tortured and burned.
Tuesday, August 8th, 2:30 pm: Levin calls Madsen. The dinghy was fit for the missile test on Friday. Does Madsen think he should install the navigation system in the submarine before departure? "No," Madsen said, "I'm canceling the mission." An order had been cancelled, he would have lost 30.000, Euro!
Tuesday, August 8th, 3.13 pm: Madsen invites Deirdre to the Nautilus for the very day the crew wanted to leave for the missile test area.
Wednesday, August 9th, 10:27 p. m.: Madsen posts the last blog entry, a detailed cancellation of the test. "Today there are two projects on Refshaleøen that make my wildest dreams come true." However, the test area was too full. He tried to get in touch with the Suborbitals, but they only communicate via blogs. But he doesn't want to block anyone.
Surrender? Peter Madsen? He had probably canceled this mission inwardly for some time already. The question is: When? And why is that? There are theories. One is: Madsen dreamed of committing a perfect crime. At least that's what he told a friend.
The naval officer Steen Lorck explains on Danish television that Madsen imagined himself to be hunted by the police. It would be the culmination of a narcissistic fantasy to rise above all others. An act cruel enough to put everything in the shade, the failure of Rocket Madsen Space Lab, the Copenhagen Suborbitals, the end of which only one gentleman is able to pull it off: Peter Madsen.
The second theory is that missiles are expensive. The Nautilus had been on land for years, scrapped by all the exits and stag nights that were a source of income for Madsen. He was always on the limit financially, helped by sponsors and lived in an old boat. In the last blog he also writes about money, of which he would have liked to have had more. And Claes Levin says he was missing 30,000 euros.
The next morning, on the day Kim Wall's disappearance, Madsen writes to Deirdre at 8:39:"We're going on a cruise tomorrow, Jubii!" She says,"Yeah." He sends pictures of three pairs of high-heeled shoes. I think the boots are great," he writes with three red hearts. "But you can also come in sneakers." She says,"Thank you, you're lovely." He: "Ha, you too! It takes luck to meet someone like you, Ditte. And by that I mean the whole package."
It's this sentence that Deirdre is most preoccupied with in retrospect. At the time, she didn't give it any meaning. Madsen was into heels, stilettos, stockings, but which man doesn't? And it wouldn't have been the first time they'd ever had sex on the bottom of the sea, which, by the way, they call perfectly normal. It had turned him on to hear what other men had done to her. And role-playing, masks, uniforms, that's all.
Deirdre does not write Madsen back until the evening of August 10th, about three hours after he left with Kim Wall. According to the magazine "Wired", he invites the journalist to his workshop in the late afternoon by text message. She lives nearby, prepares a farewell barbecue with her boyfriend. They want to emigrate to Beijing. When Wall receives the interview promise she can't resist the lure of a good story. That night she was last seen alive.
After the first meeting with Deirdre, a second meeting was arranged. It should have taken place on the day when the Danish newspapers are full with a new detail:"Murder plan revealed by SMS", for example, is the headline of the tabloid "BT". Anonymously cited is a woman from the alternative scene. She asked Madsen in a text message to stimulate her with a threat. Then he revealed the fantasy of cutting up a woman in a submarine.
Is this woman Deirdre? She doesn't answer for a day, she promises a meeting and then cancels it again. Only Thomas Djursing, Madsen's biographer, who had previously rejected several requests for this article, can now clarify the matter. Before Christmas he wanted to publish a book series on the case and triggered a shitstorm. Critics accused him of lacking respect for the victim's family. That's why he didn't want to give any more interviews before the trial.
Now he answers anyway. Deirdre was "very close to Madsen, until the end". Of course, he is torturing his brain, looking for the missing pieces of this horrible puzzle like a man possessed. He knows about another woman that Madsen tried to lure on the submarine. And from a new theory: Has Madsen made a snuff film? Did he kill Kim Wall in front of running cameras? Were there any boats nearby that could have received the material? "Yes, two," says Djursing and offers the keyword Barcelona.
Almost at the same time, Deirdre writes and apologizes for having needed distance. She is now convinced that she was the perfect victim. She was single at the time, didn't have a permanent job and often went out for a few days. "I wouldn't have been missed for weeks."
It is even more unbelievable at a time when this investigation already appears to be completely devastating: Yes, Madsen had been in Barcelona and returned from there on 14 July, about a month before the crime. Deirdre knows this because she met him when he returned to the Bella Sky Hotel. And he had called from Barcelona several times excitedly, told of businessmen who had paid him a business ticket and ordered a submarine for 2.5 million euros. A sex submarine. Of course, it might as well have been something else. He hadn't said a word about the launch of the rocket.
On March 26, Deirdre Elisabeth King will testify against Peter Madsen in court at 2.45 pm. The subpoena is available to the "NZZ am Sonntag". Also a letter he wrote to her from prison. No more than half A4 page. It says he doesn't get enough visitors and has free time. "There are no words for how happy I would be about your visit," Madsen writes as if nothing had happened. Deirdre has lost her belief that he's innocent. She says,"Kim has lost her life, Peter his, and we all have lost the dream of being part of something bigger."
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