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I think the headlines are a bit sensationalised. I can't imagine he directly killed her either; it's probably more likely he paniced when it started to sink and fled, shortly realised afterwards that he had a passenger, and tried to cover it up. I'm not saying he's innocent, but people in states of panic can do very irrational things.

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This story reminds me of Ted Kennedy [1], who somehow got off scot free after a similar incident.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappaquiddick_incident

The woman was reported missing to the police early morning when she didn't come home/was heard from the night before, so she was reported missing hours before the sub sank.

Police are asking if witnesses saw her after 16:00. The submarine set sail 3hrs later around 19:00. It sank the next day at 11:00.

That means she was probably last seen or heard from that afternoon a few hours before the sub launched.

There's an image floating about of her in the sub with Peter, so there's no doubt that she's been on the sub.

Edit: Here: http://ekstrabladet.dk/112/kim-isabel-forsvundet-i-ubaadsdra...

He's charged with involuntary manslaughter[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Madsen_(inventor)

More information is out now. There was no body on the sub, and Madsen has changed his story about dropping her off[1]. The timeline[2] makes it odd that she would have been on the sub that long...she wasn't intending on a long overnight trip.

Also, the eyewitness accounts of the sinking make it sound like the sinking was deliberate:

"Kristian Isbak, who had responded to the Navy's call to help locate the ship on Friday, told The Associated Press he first spotted Madsen standing wearing his trademark military fatigues in the submarine's tower while it was still afloat. "He then climbed down inside the submarine and there was then some kind of air flow coming up and the submarine started to sink," Isbak said. "(He) came up again and stayed in the tower until water came into it" before swimming to a nearby boat as the submarine sank, he added." [3]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-denmark-submarine-idUSKBN...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15000076

[3] http://time.com/4898129/submarine-owner-detained-over-journa...

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