31 October 2017•Update: 31 October 2017
By Ilker Girit
ISTANBUL
A Danish inventor has admitted dismembering the body of Swedish journalist Kim Wall onboard his homemade submarine in August, police said in a statement on Monday.
Peter Madsen, 46, also admitted dumping body parts in the sea near Copenhagen but still denies killing the reporter, claiming Wall, 30, died in an accident.
Madsen initially claimed he dumped Wall's body, intact, into the sea after a metal hatch struck and killed her.
However, a DNA match between a female torso found in waters south of Copenhagen and Wall’s hairbrush and was made in late August.
Autopsy results on the torso revealed the missing limbs and head had been cut away deliberately.
Wall had been onboard Madsen’s craft as part of research she was conducting for an article on the inventor.
Madsen had invited Wall on a short voyage on the night of Aug. 10, but the journalist was later reported missing.
The scuttled submarine was located by the emergency services on Aug. 11, according to local media, but Wall’s body had remained unfound.
In his first police interrogation, Madsen had initially claimed Wall had left the 40-ton vessel of her own will.
