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The Danish entrepreneur who murdered Kim Val first admitted that he was responsible for her death

Peter Madsen was convicted in 2018 of killing the 30-year-old journalist in the private submarine he built, when she accompanied him on board to interview him.

Now, a new film in Denmark brings phone interviews with him in which he took responsibility for the incident for the first time: "She pressed a few buttons, it's my fault she died"

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Thursday, 10 September 2020, 14:19

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The developer, and Danish engineer Peter Madsen who was convicted of the murder of Swedish journalist Kim Val in a private submarine he built, before dissecting her body and throwing it into the sea, said he was responsible for her death - according to a new documentary aired yesterday (Wednesday) in the country.

In an unusual statement regarding the murder, which took place in 2017, Madsen said that "the whole thing she died was my fault".

Madsen said in the film that Val interviewed him on the submarine, and "hit something."

He was then asked if that moment had aroused in him anything that had caused him to kill her, to which he replied in the affirmative.

It is not clear whether his reference to her injury was in what she said or in a physical injury to the submarine.

Val, then a 30-year-old freelance journalist who has written for various newspapers around the world including The New York Times and The Guardian, has set out to write an article about Madsen.

As part of the article she came to a submarine she had built with crowd funding.

The submarine was found submerged with only Madsen on it.

He first claimed to have dropped her off at the beach where she was picked up.

Blood stains belonging to the voal were found on the vessel.

Madsen later claimed that Val died in an "accident" and that he was forced to "bury" her body in the sea.

A few days later a part of her upper body was found by a passerby on the beach, and two months later other parts of her body were found: her head and legs.

Findings revealed that Schwal was stabbed 15 times.

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The documentary aired on Dplay in Denmark and was based on telephone interviews with Madsen.

"It's my fault she's dead," he said.

"And it's my fault because I committed the crime. It's all my fault."

At no point did Madsen admit he killed her.

"I remember every millisecond of that submarine ride. But I do not know what caused Kim to die, literally, tangibly and physiologically," Madsen said.

In 2018, Madsen was sentenced in Copenhagen court to life in prison for the murder of journalist Madsen, now 49. Appealed to the court that year, and his application was denied, shortly after he apologized to the victim's family present at the Court of Appeals. The case shocked the whole of Scandinavia.

Life sentences in Denmark usually mean 16 years in prison, but inmates are re-examined during incarceration to determine Will pose a danger to society if they are released, and if so the situation can continue to imprison them.

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The film is called "Recordings of Secret Conversations with Peter Madsen" and is based on 20-hour telephone interviews in total.

In the interview, Madsen tended to distance himself from what happened at the event, saying that Val "pressed a few buttons" when interviewing him.

"She stepped on a mine," he said.

Madsen, who grew up in a small town west of Copenhagen, built rockets in his spare time, but never attended university.

In 2008, he launched the private submarine he built, claiming it was the largest private submarine ever built.

And did not plan to interview Madsen for an article she edited about a missile program he founded in 2014, with the goal of building a mass-funded rocket with which to travel into space.

By the time he answered her, however, his cash flow was over and he canceled the launch of the experiment planned for that month.

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