The Danish inventor accused of murdering Swedish journalist Kim Wall in Copenhagen in August, enjoyed ‘strangulation sex’, starred in porn films, and had brought at least one of his mistresses on the submarine, a court heard today.
Peter Madsen, 47, denies killing the 30-year-old, and claims her death was an accident, after which he panicked, dismembered her body and dumped the parts off the Danish coast.
Several of Madsen’s mistresses are witnessing in Copenhagen district court today, sharing details about his ‘fascination’ with snuff films and BDSM sex.
Last week, the court heard that Miss Wall most likely died as a result of having her airways ‘cut off’.
‘Open marriage’: Peter Madsen had several casual sexual relationships outside his marriage, and some have revealed that he would have sex with them on the submarine where Swedish journalist Kim Wall died
Madsen, who has had an ‘open marriage’ with his wife, had several casual sexual relationships with other women.
One, whose identity has been withheld from the court, revealed today that they experimented with strangulation sex and that during intercourse ‘he had his hands around my neck’.
She said the had discussed snuff films and that Madsen had a ‘fascination for it’, Swedish newspaper Kvallsposten reports.
A second mistress, who also volunteered at Madsen’s workshop, told the court that they had been to BDSM sex clubs together but that she had not seen any violence in the inventor.
‘What we have done between four eyes has been very easy going.
‘My experience is that he is a very insecure man. Peter never crossed the line in my presence’.
Heartbreaking: Miss Wall had arranged to meet Madsen to interview him about his work on his submarine in Copenhagen on August 10 last year
Murder trial: Peter Madsen claims journalist Kim Wall, 30, died as a result of a gas leak on his submarine last August, and that he then dismembered her and ‘buried her at sea’
She also revealed that Madsen had starred in at least two porn films, one shot in Denmark and one in Germany.
Last week, a female friend, told the court that Madsen had pornographic fantasies about ‘women and death’ that ‘had turned a little bit into a manic obsession’.
She says Madsen wanted to make a snuff movie – a film which shows a real-life murder or suicide – and that it was something they had talked about making together.
‘He said he would like to find some crazy women to film.’
When Prosecutor Jakob Buch-Jepsen asked if Madsen had told her what would happen to these women during the film, she replied: ‘no he did not, but we talked about women dying.’
The trial against Peter Madsen, charged with murder, dismemberment and indecent handling of a corpse, is set to continue until next month.
Prosecutor Buch-Jepsen claims Madsen tied up and tortured Miss Wall before killing her, either by cutting her throat or strangling her.
The murder has been called premeditated because he had brought along tools he normally would not take with him on the submarine.
Coroner Christina Jacobsen testified Thursday about numerous lesions found on Wall’s torso and head, with much of the questioning focused on the more-than two dozen stab wounds to her genital area.
She told the court that some of the cuts to the torso would have to have been inflicted before the moment of death.
The press and hearers line up in front of the courthouse where the trial of Danish inventor Peter Madsen, charged with murdering and dismembering Swedish journalist Kim Wall
The court heard that there was no conclusive evidence to prove the cause of death beyond doubt, but that coroners believe the 30-year-old had her airways ‘cut off’.
Ms Jacobsen said this would be ‘due to either strangulation, throat cutting or drowning,’ she said.
The court also heard that Miss Wall had several lesions on her neck and jaw which would have been inflicted while she was still alive.
Ms Jacobsen told the court that the head may have been restrained, strapped down or that Miss Wall was ‘gagged’.
On Wednesday, the court were show animated videos of naked women being impaled spikes and being decapitated by men, which had been found on Madsen’s computer.
A post-mortem examination of Miss Wall found 14 interior and exterior stab wounds to the journalist’s genitals.
Just hours before Madsen met Miss Wall, he searched the internet for ‘beheaded girl agony’, and watched a video of a girl having her throat slit.
Madsen has continued to deny causing the death of Miss Wall throughout the investigation and trial, although he has changed his story of how she died several times.
At first he claimed that she died after she was hit over the head when the hatch door slammed shut unexpectedly.
Now, he claims Miss Wall was inside the vessel when a vacuum effect meant that he was unable to open the hatch door to get to her as exhaust fumes filled the craft.
Police technicians board Peter Madsen’s submarine UC3 Nautilus on a pier in Copenhagen three days after Kim Wall’s disappearance
On Thursday, the medical examiner said it was an unlikely scenario as‘the air seems not to have been able to leave the lungs, which is not the case with lack of oxygen or inhalation of gases.’
Miss Wall had been trying to get Madsen to agree to an interview for months before her death, and so when the opportunity arose, she left her own goodbye party.
She and he boyfriend were moving to China, and she kept in touch with her partner over the evening.
Her boyfriend received several text messages from her which were read out in court earlier this month.
‘I’m still alive btw (by the way),’ one of her last messages read, adding ‘But going down now! I love you!!!!!!’ A minute later, she added: ‘He brought coffee and cookies tho.’
Her partner called police after the messages suddenly stopped coming, and authorities launched a search for the submarine, which did not have a satellite tracking system.
The 33-ton submarine sank south of Copenhagen shortly after being spotted afloat the following day and Madsen was picked up unharmed. Initially, he told police he had let Wall off on Refshale island several hours into the trip.
Investigators found dried blood inside the submarine and on Madsen’s face and clothes, and divers eventually found Miss Wall’s body parts in plastic bags held down on the Baltic Sea bed by metal pieces.
Kim Wall grew up in southern Sweden, and studied at Paris’ Sorbonne university, the London School of Economics and Columbia University in New York, from where she graduated with a master’s degree in journalism in 2013.
She wrote for The New York Times, The Guardian and other publications, reporting on topics such as tourism in post-earthquake Haiti and nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands.