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