Copenhagen police say divers have found a severed arm in the sea which could be linked to the case of a Swedish journalist who disappeared after a trip on a private submarine in August.
The arm was found in Koge Bay, south of the Danish capital, about half a mile from where Kim Wall’s decapitated head and legs were discovered in plastic bags in October.
Last week a left arm was found in the same area, weighed down with metal in a similar manner as the legs of Ms Wall.
Police say the arm was found in in Koge Bay, south of Copenhagen, about half a mile from where Kim Wall’s decapitated head and legs were discovered in plastic bags in October
Danish submarine inventor Peter Madsen, 46, faces preliminary charges of manslaughter and indecent handling of a corpse for disposing Wall’s body at sea.
He claims he didn’t kill her and says she died accidentally. However, he has admitted dismembering her.
Miss Wall was last seen on board the submarine on the evening of August 10 as she and Madsen, a self-taught engineer and inventor, sailed in waters off Copenhagen.
In custody since August 11, Madsen early on told police that Wall died when a 154lbs hatch door fell on her head, and in a panic, he threw her body overboard.
He insisted her body was intact at the time.
Peter Madsen, 46, told friends during a ‘science night’ meeting that the ideal place to dump a body was Koge Bay, Copenhagen, where the bodyparts of Kim Wall, 30, have been recovered
Accused: Peter Madsen, 46, pictured moments after he was rescued from his sinking submarine, faces preliminary charges of manslaughter and indecent handling of a corpse
But the recovery of her head contradicts his version of events, as police said an autopsy showed ‘no sign of fracture on the skull and there isn’t any sign of other blunt violence to the skull.’
Locating Wall’s head has been crucial to investigators, as the final autopsy on the torso was unable to establish the cause of death.
Jens Møller Jensen, Deputy Police Officer at Copenhagen Police, said at a press conference last month: ‘We found a leg. An hour after, another leg. And shortly after a head also lay in a bag that was weighed down by several pieces of metal.’
Police also found some of Miss Wall’s clothes and a knife in one of the bags. Her underwear was found on the submarine.
Prosecutors believe Madsen killed Wall as part of a sexual fantasy, then dismembered and mutilated her body.
Wall, a 30-year-old freelance journalist who was researching a story on Madsen, went missing after he took her out to sea in the 17-metre (56-foot) craft in August
Earlier, prosecutor Jakob Buch-Jepsen told a court custody hearing that a hard disk found in Madsen’s workshop contained fetish films in which real women were tortured, decapitated and burned.
‘This hard drive doesn’t belong to me,’ Madsen insisted, saying numerous people had access to his workshop.
Madsen has insisted there was no sexual relationship between him and Wall, and their that contacts had been purely professional.
Madsen previously denied amputating her limbs, saying he tried to bury her whole body at sea, but was later forced to change his story.
Madsen has voluntarily accepted extending his pre-trial detention until Dec.