{"id":412447,"date":"2017-08-23T08:10:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T08:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/08\/23\/headless-body-identified-as-missing-journalist\/"},"modified":"2017-08-23T08:10:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T08:10:55","slug":"headless-body-identified-as-missing-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/23\/headless-body-identified-as-missing-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Headless body identified as missing journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">&#13;<br \/>\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.4.4--><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A headless torso found in waters off Denmark has been identified as missing Swedish journalist Kim Wall, Danish police say.<\/p>\n<p>There was a \u201cDNA match between [the] torso and Kim Wall\u201d, Copenhagen police said early on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Wall was last seen alive on 10 August as she departed on a submarine trip with inventor Peter Madsen.<\/p>\n<p>The submarine sank hours after the search for Ms Wall began. Mr Madsen was charged with negligent manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>He initially said he had dropped her off safely near Copenhagen, but has since said she died in an accident and that he had \u201cburied\u201d her at sea.<\/p>\n<p>Danish police believe the 40-tonne submarine was deliberately sunk by Mr Madsen. He denies any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>Lead investigator Jens Moller Jensen said that DNA had been taken from Kim Wall\u2019s hairbrush and toothbrush at her home in Sweden and it matched the remains found on a beach south of Copenhagen on Monday. There was metal attached to the headless torso to ensure it sank, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Blood found on the submarine itself had also been identified as belonging to the Swedish journalist. He would not comment on the cause of death but said a post mortem examination was being carried out and police were still looking for the rest of her body.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">What happened to Kim Wall?<\/h2>\n<p>Ms Wall, 30, was reported missing by her boyfriend in the early hours of 11 August, after she failed to return from a trip on Peter Madsen\u2019s homemade submarine, the Nautilus.<\/p>\n<p>A freelance journalist who had written for the Guardian, New York Times and South China Morning Post, she was researching a feature about the inventor and the Nautilus, which he built in 2008 with crowdfunding.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services scoured the area of sea to the east of Copenhagen and the submarine was eventually spotted from a lighthouse south of the Oresund bridge between Denmark and Sweden. Within 30 minutes the vessel had sunk and Mr Madsen was rescued.<\/p>\n<p>For 10 days, the search for the journalist continued. A torso was found by a passing cyclist on a beach near Koge Bay on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the next day that the arms, legs and head had been deliberately cut off. They finally confirmed it was Kim Wall in a tweet early on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Madsen\u2019s lawyer, Betina Hald Engmark, says her client has not confessed to anything. 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There was a \u201cDNA match between [the] torso and Kim Wall\u201d, Copenhagen police said early on Wednesday. Ms Wall was last seen alive on 10 August as she departed on a submarine trip with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":412448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Headless body identified as missing journalist - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/23\/headless-body-identified-as-missing-journalist\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Headless body identified as missing journalist - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"&#013; A headless torso found in waters off Denmark has been identified as missing Swedish journalist Kim Wall, Danish police say. 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