Headless torso found in search for missing journalist

Discovery comes hours after Danish inventor told court woman died on homemade submarine

World's largest homemade submarine recovered in search for missing journalist
(Image credit: Ole Jensen/Corbis via Getty Images)

A woman's torso has washed up near Copenhagen, hours after a man charged with killing a journalist told a court she had died aboard his homemade submarine.

The owner of the submarine, Peter Madsen, told a court that journalist Kim Wall, who had been missing since 11 August, had died in an accident and he had dumped her body in the sea.

"The inventor had previously claimed he last saw the 30-year-old when he dropped her off on the tip of an island off Copenhagen late on 10 August", The Guardian reports. He had "denied playing any role in her disappearance".

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According to police, he subsequently explained that "there was an accident on board which caused Kim Wall's death and that he consequently buried her at sea at a non-defined location in the Bay of Koge", 25 miles south-west of the Danish capital.

Madsen's submarine, the 60-foot UC3 Nautilus, is reportedly the largest privately-built submarine in the world.

He was rescued from it "when it started taking on water south of Copenhagen" on Friday, according to ABC News.

Police are investigating whether Madsen deliberately sank the vessel to cover up his alleged involvement in Wall's death.

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