HEADLESS TORSO IS THAT OF MISSING JOURNALIST
A DNA test confirmed Wednesday that a headless and limbless torso found in the Baltic Sea matches missing Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who may have died on an amateur-built submarine that sank.
Wall, 30, was last seen alive Aug. 10 on the submarine, UC3 Nautilus, which went down off the east coast of Denmark the next day.
A cyclist found the headless torso floating in the ocean Monday. Copenhagen police said Tuesday that the arms and legs had been “deliberately been cut off ” the body, according to the Danish tabloid BT.
Eccentric Danish inventor Peter Madsen, who built the submarine, was charged with murder but jailed on a preliminary charge of manslaughter. He denied both charges.