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Eugene

(62,648 posts)
Wed Aug 23, 2017, 06:02 AM Aug 2017

Danish police confirm headless torso is missing journalist Kim Wall

LBN thread: Danish submarine mystery takes gruesome, bizzare turns

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Source: The Guardian

Danish police confirm headless torso is missing journalist Kim Wall

Police find DNA match to Swedish reporter who is believed to have been killed on a homemade submarine

Philip Oltermann and agencies
Wednesday 23 August 2017 06.51 BST

Danish police have identified a headless female torso found in the Copenhagen waterside as that of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who police believe was killed on a homemade submarine.

Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday morning, Copenhagen police’s vice-president, Jens Møller, also said that DNA taken from a hairbrush and toothbrush belonging to Wall had matched that of blood found on the submarine.

He said metal weights had been attached to the body to prevent it from floating.

“Damage seems to have been done to the torso in an attempt to ensure that air and gases escape and the body won’t drift to the surface,” Møller said at the press conference.

Peter Madsen, a Danish inventor, was charged with manslaughter last week. He told a court hearing this week that Wall had died in an accident and that he had “buried” her at sea.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/23/danish-police-confirm-torso-found-copenhagen-journalist-kim-wall
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Danish police confirm headless torso is missing journalist Kim Wall (Original Post) Eugene Aug 2017 OP
This is an horrific murder. madaboutharry Aug 2017 #1

madaboutharry

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1. This is an horrific murder.
Wed Aug 23, 2017, 06:27 AM
Aug 2017

It sounds like a script in the genre of Nordic Noir. No doubt new charges of murder will be filed. My heart goes out to her family.

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