Danish Submarine Inventor Says He Buried Swedish Journalist at Sea
Mr. Madsen now asserts that “there was an accident on board which caused Kim Wall’s death and
that he consequently buried her at sea,” the Copenhagen police said in a statement on Monday.
“It’s a torso without a head, arms or legs,” said Jens Moller, the chief homicide investigator
of the Copenhagen police, adding: “It’s way, way too early to say if it’s Kim Wall.
COPENHAGEN — The mysterious disappearance of a Swedish journalist who vanished after boarding a Danish inventor’s submarine took a dark turn on Monday, when the police revealed
that the inventor had changed his account, telling investigators that she died on his vessel and that he had buried her at sea.
A search operation found the sunken vessel in Koge Bay, south of Copenhagen, after Mr. Madsen had plunged into the water
and swam toward a boat, his rescuer, a private citizen, said.
Mr. Madsen, 46, is known in Denmark as “Rocket Madsen,” an uncompromising builder of submarines
and space rockets who was hoping to become the world’s first amateur space traveler riding in a homemade rocket
He initially told the authorities that he and the journalist, Kim Wall, had gone out on Aug. 10 in his submarine and
that he dropped her off back on land in a remote section of the port of Copenhagen later that night.
Using divers and sonar, the authorities were searching for Ms. Wall’s body along
the submarine’s route, north and south of Copenhagen, the police statement said.