> I think there's room for compassion towards all involved

Compassion? Seriously? I can only assume you are a close friend.

He is putting the family of Kim Wall through hell by giving them hopes she is still alive. He sinks the submarine on purpose so they never find out what really happened.

Her body is found with no head, arms or legs.

He deserves no compassion at all. A fair trial yes. But no compassion whatsoever.

There is this thing that I keep noticing. Some kind of 'faux balance', where two things that are totally not at all on the same level are given equal billing. Nazi's and counter protesters, killers and their victims, Intelligent Design and science.

Highly annoying development, as if if there are two sides to some story they both automatically deserve equal weighing.

If Madsen did all this - and there is no evidence so far that the did not - then he definitely does not deserve compassion. To coldly claim he dropped the woman off knowing full well that she was dead is utterly despicable.