In a story that sounds like it came out of Hollywood, the Danish inventor who was sent to prison after being convicted of murdering a Swedish journalist on his homemade submarine briefly escaped from confinement after taking a hostage and possibly threatening authorities with a bomb.
Peter Madsen, who was convicted of the 2017 killing of Kim Wall, escaped from the Herstedvester Prison near Copenhagen after taking a staff member hostage with what appeared to be a gun. After making it outside the facility, Madsen was reportedly wearing a belt-like device around his waist, leading to members of the bomb squad responding to the scene.
Madsen did not get far and was caught about 430 yards away from the prison as he tried to flee on Tuesday morning, according to Western Copenhagen police.
Madsen, 49, was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Wall in 2018. The year before, he lured the 30-year-old reporter aboard his UC3 Nautilus submarine with the promise of an interview for a story. He was also found guilty of sexual assault and the defilement of a corpse for dismembering Wall’s body and dumping it in the Baltic Sea.
“Kim wanted to give a voice to people who didn’t have one,” Joachim Wall, her father, said in a recent interview with The New York Times. “She was always looking for the story behind the story.”
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