The investigators, leading the case of the death of Swedish journalist Kim Vallee, found a video with footage of torture and beheadings of women on a hard disk is assumed to be owned by the main suspect in the murder of a Danish inventor Peter Madsen. This was announced on Tuesday, October 3, Prosecutor Jakob Buch-Jepsen, reports the BBC.
According to him, a shocking tape was found on one of the personal computers installed in the laboratory, where he worked for Madsen. The footage depicted as women being strangled, beheaded and burned, according to Reuters. Buch-Jepsen said that investigators believe the footage is genuine.
Madsen pleaded not guilty. According to him, the computer on which it was found that the video does not belong to him, and is the property of the laboratory, which could be used by anyone of its employees, writes Newsweek.
According to the inventor, the death Valle was a random – Luc weighing 70 kg and hit her on the head. 46-year-old engineer said that he tried to bury the reporter in the sea and had intended to commit suicide, flooding the submarine.
However, the investigation in the innocence Madsen believes. According to the Prosecutor, the suspect engineer after his testimony is not only not diminished, but, on the contrary, increased. The court decided to extend his arrest for another four months. AP reports that the arrest was extended in a few months, and for four weeks until 31 October. The investigation is ongoing.
30-year-old Swedish freelance journalist Kim Vallee went missing on August 10 after went with Madsen for a walk for he created the submarine “Nautilus”, which was the biggest private submarine in the world. Valle wanted to write about the inventor and his creation story.
The next day, the boat suddenly sank – Madsen saved, but the body of his companion was never found. Himself a sailor first claimed that shortly before the accident dropped the woman on one of the Islands. Then he changed his story and said that Valle was killed in an accident and he buried her under the water.
However, police found evidence of deliberate flooding of the boat. Madsen was arrested. The investigators believe that he could deliberately flood the boat to deal with Valle to hide traces of crime. After 10 days after his arrest, Madsen, August 21 the police have discovered the torso of a woman with severed limbs and head. It was found in the area of the sinking boat, not far from Copenhagen.
According to the Prosecutor, the autopsy on the body of the Valle there were 15 stab wounds on the genitals and chest. Investigators believe that these wounds appeared “shortly before or after her death.” However, the exact cause of death has not yet been established.