Decapitated Body Could Be That Of A Missing Journalist In DInamarca

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Danish police confirmed on Monday the discovery of a torso that was found in the waters of Copenhagen and that it could belong to the missing journalist Kim Wall.

The 30-year-old woman disappeared on August 10 after attending an interview with inventor Peter Madsen, 46, who had quoted her on his private submarine.

When the woman did not return home, her boyfriend reported to the authorities, which immediately began their search. On August 11, Madsen was arrested and collaborated with the investigations from the beginning, according to the AP agency.

Thereafter, the mystery enveloped the reporter's disappearance. A witness said he saw Madsen swimming to get away from the submarine as it sank. Two sightings of the ship were also reported on August 10 and 11, according to The New York Times.

During the investigations, the inventor said that he had taken Wall in the submarine and then returned her to land. Later Madsen changed his version to admit that "an accident had occurred on board that had killed Kim Wall and that consequently had buried her in an unspecified location in the bay of Køge," according to the police revealed this Monday. of a statement.

The version would coincide with a technical investigation that described the sinking of the submarine as "the consequence of a deliberate act".

Jens Moller, head of the Copenhagen homicide unit, confirmed to People that the female torso had been found on the shores of the bay, and that it appeared to have been mutilated from the arms and legs by a kind of saw. The body was completely naked.

"It is very, very early to tell if it's Kim Wall," Moller told The New York Times. "We don't know if it's her."

Wall was a freelance journalist who studied at Columbia University, the London School of Economics, and the Sorbonne University in Paris. The communicator went on to publish with prominent media such as The New York Times, Time magazine and the British newspaper The Guardian.

Authorities estimated that this Wednesday the autopsy of the remains would be completed to identify the body.