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Murder of Kim Wall
Native name Ubådssagen
Date10 August 2017[1][unreliable source?]
LocationKøge Bay
AccusedPeter Madsen
ChargesMurder
Indecent handling of a corpse
Sexual assault[2]
Trial8 March – 25 April 2018 (2018-03-08 – 2018-04-25)
VerdictGuilty
SentenceLife imprisonment

The murder of Kim Wall (referred to in Denmark as Ubådssagen, "the submarine case")[3][4] took place on 10 or 11 August 2017 in Køge Bay. Wall was a Swedish freelance journalist who was killed by entrepreneur Peter Madsen on board his midget submarine UC3 Nautilus. Her body was later found dismembered and dumped in the ocean. On 25 April 2018, Madsen was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.[5]

Kim Wall

"Kim Wall" redirects here. For the British actor, see Kim Wall (British actor).
Kim Wall
Born
Kim Isabel Fredrika Wall[6]

(1987-03-23)23 March 1987
Trelleborg, Scania, Sweden
Died10 August 2017(2017-08-10) (aged 30)[1]
Køge Bay
Cause of deathHomicide of undetermined etiology
Alma materLondon School of Economics
Columbia University
OccupationJournalist
Years active2013–2017[7][8]
Websitewww.kim-wall.com

Kim Isabel Fredrika Wall was born on 23 March 1987 in Trelleborg, Scania, Sweden[9] to Ingrid and Joachim Wall.[10][11] She had a younger brother named Tom.[10][11] After graduating from high school in Malmö, she received a bachelor's degree in international relations at the London School of Economics and a dual master's degree in journalism and international relations at Columbia University in New York City.[9][12][13]

Wall worked as a freelance journalist, writing reports about a variety of topics for publications such as The Guardian, The New York Times, Vice, Slate, and Time.[9] In March 2016, German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung awarded her the Hansel Mieth Prize for Best Digital Reportage for "Exodus", a multi-media report on climate change and nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands.[9][14][15] She lived with her Danish boyfriend Ole Stobbe in Refshaleøen, Copenhagen.[16][17][18]

In October 2017, Wall was posthumously nominated for Prix Europa's Outstanding Achievement Award "Journalist of the Year",[19][20] but she lost the award to Can Dündar.[21][22] On 26 November, SVT aired a documentary about her life entitled Hon Som Ville Berätta ("The Woman Who Wanted to Tell").[23]

UC3 Nautilus

On 10 August 2017, Wall and boyfriend Ole Stobbe were preparing to host a farewell party in Refshaleøen prior to their planned move to Beijing on 16 August.[16][17][18] Shortly before the party, Wall received a text from inventor Peter Madsen—with whom she had communicated via e-mail earlier in the year on the subject of an interview—inviting her to interview him on board his midget submarine UC3 Nautilus. She agreed to join him on the submarine for two hours and boarded the Nautilus around 19:00 local time (UTC+1).[16][24] After the submarine failed to return to the harbour, Stobbe called the police at 01:43 to report Wall missing.[16] The submarine was sighted in the Køge Bay just south-east of Amager by Drogden lighthouse at 10:30, and at 11:00, it foundered.[24] After being rescued from the bay, Madsen was arrested and charged with the negligent manslaughter of Wall, with police suspecting him of having scuttled the submarine.[25][26]

Peter Madsen

After originally having said that he had dropped her off on land,[27] Madsen said he dumped Wall's body at sea after she died in an accident on board the submarine.[25][26] On 21 August, the headless, limbless body of Wall was found washed up on a beach in the south-west of Amager.[24] A post-mortem examination showed she had been stabbed fifteen times,[28] mostly in the groin.[29] Police probed possible links to other murder cases in Scandinavia, including the unsolved death of 22-year-old Kazuko Toyonaga in 1986 in Copenhagen, but did not find any connections to any of them.[30][31][32]

At a court hearing on 5 September, Madsen testified in court that she died after being struck on the head by the submarine's hatch cover.[33] The prosecution said police had found videos on Madsen's computer showing women being violently killed,[34] and that witnesses said they had seen Madsen watching videos of decapitation and practicing asphyxiation sex.[35] On 6 October, two plastic bags containing Wall's head, legs, clothes and a knife were found by police divers in Køge Bugt;[36] six days later, a saw was found in the water.[37] The post-mortem found no signs of blunt trauma to the head[36] and did not determine the cause of death.[38][39] Later that month, Madsen changed his story, admitting to dismembering Wall's body but continuing to deny intentionally killing her, saying that she died after poisonous exhaust gases entered the submarine while he was on deck.[40][41] The post-mortem showed no signs of exhaust gases in the tissue.[42] On 21 and 29 November, police divers found Wall's arms in the bay.[43][44][45]

On 16 January 2018, Madsen was charged with murder, indecent handling of a corpse and sexual assault. The prosecution accused him of having tortured Wall before killing her by cutting her throat or strangling her.[2][46] His trial began on 8 March, and he pleaded not guilty to the murder.[47] On 25 April, he was convicted of all three charges and sentenced to life imprisonment.[5]

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