Inventor Peter Madsen, who is serving time for murder, escaped from Herstedvester prison in a Copenhagen suburb on October 20, but was detained by police a kilometer from the prison on October 20, according to the Copenhagen Post..

Madsen managed to escape the prison just a few hundred meters when he was surrounded by police. The fugitive was targeted by snipers, and Madsen, around whose waist a belt was tied, said that the belt was stuffed with explosives.

Details of Madsen's escape and capture have not yet been released..

Recall that Madsen is serving a 20-year sentence for the murder of the Swedish journalist Kim Vall, who planned to write an article about the inventor and for this purpose visited a submarine he had constructed..

When Wall's friend reported the journalist's disappearance to the police, the police began searching for Madsen's submarine..

At first, the inventor claimed to have landed the journalist ashore.. Later, however, he changed his testimony, and claimed that Wall died in an accident - a manhole cover weighing 70 kilograms allegedly fell on her head.. Madsen said that he buried the girl at sea and wanted to commit suicide by sinking a submarine. However, the police did not believe Madsen, and on August 14 he was charged with preliminary murder and sent to jail..

At the end of August, divers found the remains of a woman in the sea, as well as clothes and a knife, and later a saw, with which the perpetrator dismembered the victim's body.. After the discovery of the remains, the police said that there was no damage to the skull that should have been found if the hatch cover fell on her head.. Police speculate that the girl was either strangled or her throat was cut.

Wall died of carbon monoxide poisoning while on deck, according to Madsen..

He also admitted that he dismembered the body of the journalist and threw parts into the sea..

Deense moordenaar Peter Madsen ontsnapt uit gevangenis, meteen opgepakt / via @NOS https: // t. co / lwGa90Zrdn - Anne fait t? ut (@AnneBruijne) October 20, 2020 Peter Madsen - the Danish tech entrepreneur who killed a journalist on his submarine - was caught breaking out of jail, reportedly while claiming he had a bomb https: // t. co / NqH3eOkxqn - Insider News (@insidernews) October 20, 2020.