Re:Kim Wall: Headless body identified as missing journalist
by falsedan on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @07:11AM
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> after having just dismembered a body and sinking a submarine
Allegedly doing those things. Although I'm pretty sure his right to a fair trial won't be affected by HN comments…
Re:Kim Wall: Headless body identified as missing journalist
by jacquesm on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @07:25AM
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> Allegedly doing those things.
Fair enough.
> Although I'm pretty sure his right to a fair trial won't be affected by HN comments…
You'd hope not.
The one thing that so far has negatively influenced Madsen's chances at any kind of leniency in his future trial (I'm going on the assumption here that there will be such a trial, though I can see some ways in which he might get out of that) is Madsen's own behavior.
Given that he had no compunction about cutting her up into pieces I have zero trouble seeing him stabbing her. At this point in time 'all bets are off', he's been more than just a little bit erratic and has been doing a pretty good job of appearing quite normal after having just dismembered a body and sinking a submarine. You have to be more than a little bit strange to be able to stand there and pretend to be the victim of an accident while talking to the police knowing all that.