Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
Murder On a Submarine - The Peter Madsen story
Sun, 02 Feb 2025
This is the story of Peter Madsen and the murder of Kim Wall in a submarine.
Who was Peter Madsen and why is he significant?
So this journalist takes a ride in a submarine, because she's doing a story for a magazine. But then, all of a sudden, boom! She disappears. And she's never seen alive again. Where did she go? Now the guy who built the submarine she was in, his name's Peter. And Peter's an inventor, he lives in Denmark, and he's kind of a semi-celebrity there. He's like a Diet Tony Stark.
He's always building things with his own hands, submarines and rockets.
Originally educated a little bit as an engineer, a little bit as a naval engineer.
In fact, he ends up building what is during this time period the largest privately built submarine in the world called the UC-3 Nautilus. It's pretty impressive. But as gifted as Peter is, he also has a dark side.
You're aware that psychopaths exist amongst us, human predators that walks around and grabs people and use them and throw them out.
So one day, this Swedish freelance journalist, her name's Kim Wall. Kim Wall hears about all the interesting stuff Peter is doing, and she thinks it'd be really cool to interview him and write up an article for Wired Magazine. So Kim reaches out to Peter a couple of times, but he never gets back to her. And she really wants this story, but it looks like it's just never going to happen.
But then Peter finally responds. He sends her a text and he says, yes, he can do an interview later that same day. And Kim Wall's like, nope. So then they meet up at his workshop for tea. And during that meeting, Peter offers to take her out in his submarine that he built, the UC3 Nautilus. And she's like, yeah, I want to ride in your submarine.
I mean, this is like a once in a lifetime chance to ride in a submarine. How are you going to say no? So then she goes to her partner, this guy, Ole. And she tells Olay that Peter agreed to do the interview with her and he wants to do it in his submarine. So she's going to go with him and she'll be back in a few hours. And soon enough, she's boarding the homemade submarine with Peter.
And they're cruising around in the water and there's a photo of it. You can zoom in and you can see the two of them riding along, having a good time. And she texts Olay a few times, a few pics, and then Peter wants to take the sub underwater to show her that it goes underwater. So they take the submarine underwater and she's about to get her interview and she really seems to be having a good time.
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