Headless torso in Denmark is journalist Kim Wall
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On August 10, 30 year old freelance journalist Kim Wall of Sweden boarded a submarine with 46 year old celebrity entrepreneur and inventor Peter Madsen. Several days after the journalist’s boyfriend reported her missing
On August 10, 30 year old freelance journalist Kim Wall of Sweden boarded a submarine with 46 year old celebrity entrepreneur and inventor Peter Madsen. Several days after the journalist’s boyfriend reported her missing, a headless, limbless torso was discovered by a cyclist off the shore of the Danish Island, Amager. The local authorities of Copenhagen ID’d the torso as Ms. Wall.
As explained by Mr. Madsen, after Ms. Wall interviewed him for a story on the submarine that he designed, he dropped the journalist off in a remote section of Copenhagen. Later, he recounted a different story and claimed that Ms. Wall died in an accident on the submarine before it mysteriously sank to the bottom of the sea. The inventor went on to state that he “buried” her at sea in the Bay of Køge. There is currently no information revealing how Ms. Wall was beheaded and dismembered or why, however Mr. Madsen is in police custody and facing preliminary charges of involuntary manslaughter.
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Hours after Ms. Wall’s boyfriend reported her missing, Mr. Madsen was rescued from the submarine while Ms. Wall remained missing. The Danish police conducted a search for Ms. Hall, but it was not until Wednesday, August 23 that authorities announced the headless torso’s blood matched the DNA sampled from Ms. Wall’s toothbrush. Investigators also found dried blood that belonged to Ms. Wall inside the sunken vessel. There are also marks on the dismembered body that suggest someone tried to press air out of her body so that she would sink to the bottom of the bay and a metal contraption was fastened around the torso in what seems to be an attempt to weigh the body down.
Ms. Wall is remembered as a passionate, fearless journalist with work appearing in The New York Times, The Guardian, Vice, and Harper’s Magazine. A graduate of the London School of Economics and Columbia University, she spent time reporting from Cuba, China, Uganda, and Sri Lanka. She dedicated her career to covering international conflicts, natural crises, and “small stories, with bigger narratives”. As a journalist who spent much of her time working in dangerous areas, her family cannot believe that “something could happen…just a few miles from the childhood home”.
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