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Sub victim was stabbed

- BY MEGAN CERULLO Journalist Kim Wall (left) was stabbed 15 times after boarding Peter Madsen’s (above) sub in Denmark, court was told. With News Wire Services

SWEDISH JOURNALIST Kim Wall was stabbed 15 times after she boarded Danish inventor Peter Madsen’s homemade submarine for an interview in August, a Copenhagen court heard Monday.

Madsen, 46, has been charged with murdering Wall, whose headless, dismembere­d torso was found floating in waters off of Copenhagen on Aug. 21, 10 days after she boarded the vessel.

Her cause of death has not yet been determined, but prosecutor Jakob Buch-Jepsen told the court that the multiple knife wounds had been inflicted “at the time of death or shortly afterwards,” the Guardian reported.

Madsen’s computer also contained material featuring women being tortured and killed, Buch-Jepsen said.

Madsen, who has denied killing Wall, participat­ed in the hearing via video conference.

He has denied killing Wall, and said he was “not the only person” with access to the computer in his workshop. He denied that the gruesome material belonged to him, the Guardian reported.

Madsen’s lawyer Betina Hald Engmark said the court had heard “nothing that supports Kim Wall being killed by my client.”

Madsen previously alleged that Wall was killed in a “terrible accident” aboard the ship. He said she was accidental­ly hit by a 155-pound hatch in the submarine’s tower.

He said that after the accident, he used a metal weight to sink her body.

Buch-Jepsen said that Madsen killed Wall at an unknown time between Aug. 10 and 11, and dismembere­d her body before sinking it.

An autopsy found that her missing limbs were cut off after her death.

“Our suspicion hasn’t changed, it has been strengthen­ed since Sept. 5,” Buch—Jepsen said.

Madsen’s detention was extended until Oct. 31.

An investigat­ion death is ongoing. into Wall’s

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