The man convicted of killing a Swedish journalist while aboard his homemade submarine has admitted to her murder and dismemberment.
Peter Madsen, 49, is serving a life sentence in prison after being convicted of Kim Wall’s August 2017 murder. Throughout the trial, he maintained that the death was an accident, but new recordings between Madsen and another journalist inquiring about the crime were released as part of a new documentary series Secret Recordings with Peter Madsen, France 24 reported.
“There is only one who is guilty, and that is me,” Madsen said in the first episode of the series after responding “yes” to a question about whether he murdered Wall.
“It was nobody else’s fault. It’s my fault she died. And it’s my fault because I committed the crime. It’s all my fault,” Madsen told interviewer Kristian Linnemann, according to the Copenhagen Post.
The documentary series is gleaned from nearly 20 hours of phone interviews between Linnemann and Madsen. While Madsen didn’t know he was being recorded at the time, he reportedly authorized the release of the recordings for the documentary.
Wall had been aboard Madsen’s 60-foot UC3 Nautilus for an interview with the Danish inventor when she was killed. A motive for the slaying is still unclear, although Madsen was convicted of murder and sexual assault in April 2018.
