DNA of headless torso matches missing Swedish journalist Kim Wall

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 A DNA test confirms that a headless and limbless torso found in the Baltic Sea matches missing Swedish journalist, Kim Wall, who is believed to have died on an amateur-built submarine that sank, Copenhagen police said Wednesday.
Wall, 30, was last seen alive on 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, has been charged with murder but jailed on a preliminary charge of manslaughter under particularly aggravating circumstances.
He denies both charges.
Madsen initially told police that Wall, who was apparently writing about the submarine, left the vessel for a Copenhagen island several hours into their trip and that he did not know what happened to her afterward.
Copenhagen police said in a statement on Monday, however, that Madsen had declared that “there was an accident on board which caused Kim Wall’s death and that he consequently buried her at sea.
”  Madsen`s lawmaker, Betina Hald Engmark, told Denmark TV2 that her client was relieved that the police publicly disclosed his explanation of events aboard the vessel.
  "It is my client because he has no other desire in this matter than it gets cleared up and informed fully.
It`s still my client`s main interest and desire," she told TV2.
More: Danish police: Submarine owner says missing Swedish journalist died in accident Wall, a freelance journalist born in Sweden, studied at the Sorbonne university in Paris, the London School of Economics and at Columbia University in New York, where she graduated with a master’s degree in journalism in 2013.
She lived in New York and Beijing, her family said, and had written for The New York Times, The Guardian, the South China Morning Post and Vice Magazine, among other publications.
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