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Article snippet: COPENHAGEN — The Copenhagen police announced on Wednesday that a torso found this week in local waters was that of Kim Wall, a Swedish journalist whose disappearance after boarding a Danish inventor’s submarine became a grim mystery that has stunned many Scandinavians. The inventor, Peter Madsen, is being held on preliminary charges of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of Ms. Wall, 30. The journalist had been missing since Aug. 10; Mr. Madsen initially told the authorities that the two had gone out on his self-designed submarine for an article Ms. Wall was working on, and that he had dropped her off later that night in a remote section of the port of Copenhagen. But he later told investigators that an accident on the submarine, which sank, had caused Ms. Wall’s death, and that he had buried her at sea. On Monday, a woman’s torso was found on the edge of Amager Island, near where Mr. Madsen’s submarine was found to have sunk. On Wednesday, the police said on Twitter that DNA testing had confirmed that the torso was Ms. Wall’s. Jens Moller, chief homicide investigator for the Copenhagen police, said at a news conference that metal had been attached to the torso to weigh it down. “We consider this a breakthrough in the investigation, but we continue to search for the missing body parts,” Mr. Moller said. He also said that “coagulated blood” had been found inside Mr. Madsen’s submarine, which was recovered from a depth of about 22 feet. The police... Link to the full article to read more