A Promising Journalist’s Final Story On August 10, 2017, Swedish journalist Kim Wall boarded the UC3 Nautilus, a homemade submarine built by Danish entrepreneur Peter Madsen. She was there to interview him for a feature story. It should have been a routine assignment. However, it turned into one of the most horrifying and widely publicized […]
On August 10, 2017, Swedish journalist Kim Wall boarded the UC3 Nautilus, a homemade submarine built by Danish entrepreneur Peter Madsen. She was there to interview him for a feature story.
It should have been a routine assignment. However, it turned into one of the most horrifying and widely publicized murder cases in Scandinavian history.
Kim Wall, an award-winning freelance journalist, was last seen alive as the submarine set sail from Copenhagen’s harbor. Her boyfriend reported her missing later that night when she failed to return home. The next morning, Madsen was rescued from the water after the Nautilus mysteriously sank. When questioned, he initially claimed he had dropped Wall off safely on land.
As authorities investigated, Madsen changed his story multiple times, initially stating that Wall had died from a hatch accident before admitting to dismembering her body. Her torso was found floating near the coast of Copenhagen, followed by additional body parts discovered in weighted bags on the sea floor.
The forensic evidence and Madsen’s shifting stories painted a gruesome picture. Prosecutors argued that he had planned the murder, using the submarine as a crime scene. In April 2018, Peter Madsen was convicted of premeditated murder, sexual assault, and desecration of a corpse, receiving a life sentence in Denmark, which is rarely given.
Kim Wall’s parents, Ingrid and Joachim Wall, turned their grief into action, founding The Kim Wall Memorial Fund to support young female journalists. Additionally, Her work, which spanned multiple continents and covered human rights, science, and culture, continues to inspire journalists worldwide.
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