Dead: Kim Wall, 30, (left) had gone along for the submarine's voyage to report on Peter Madsen (right), who has now admitted to 'burying her at sea' after she died on the vessel
The headless female torso found in a Copenhagen bay has been identified as missing Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who police believe was killed on a submarine built by a Danish hobby inventor.
Peter Madsen, 46, has admitted that the 30-year-old died on his vessel, but claims she died in an accident and that he then buried her at sea, before deliberately sinking the submarine he had spent years building.
Police revealed today that Miss Wall's limbs had been 'deliberately cut off' and the torso had weighed down with some form of metal before it was dumped in the sea.
A police officer holding an evidence bag and a fire fighter at the scene of the isle of Amager, in Køge Bay, Copenhagen, where the remains of Kim Wall was found on Tuesday
Police have found traces of Miss Wall's blood inside the submarine, despite having had to retrieve it from the bottom of a Copenhagen bay where it sank on August 11.
Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday morning, Jens Moeller Jensen said that they had been able to match both the blood and the torso to DNA retrieved from a toothbrush and a hairbrush belonging to Kim Wall.
He added that police had found that the torso had been subjected to some form of force, in order for air to be pushed out of the lungs so it would not float.
Police believe the metal found on the torso had the purpose of ensuring the body sunk and remained on the seabed.
The torso was found by a passing cyclist at the water's edge in Køge Bay in Copenhagen, where Madsen had informed police that he had 'buried' Miss Wall's dead body.
Last moments: One of the last images taken of Miss Wall shows her on board the sub alongside Madsen on Thursday August 10
Speaking after the gruesome discovery on Tuesday, Danish pice said the arms and legs had been 'deliberately been cut off'
Tragedy: Journalist Kim Wall died on the submarine, Madsen has admitted, but he claims it was an accident
Divers continued to search the area where the torso was found for the remains of Miss Wall, Moeller said.
Miss Wall was last seen on board the UC3 Nautilus with amateur builder Madsen on August 10, but until Monday, he insisted he had let her off that evening.
Madsen was picked up by the Danish navy on August 11, when his submarine sunk in Copenhagen harbour.
He was photographer making a 'thumbs up' as he made it to the shore, but was later arrested after Miss Wall's family reported her missing.
Danish investigators say they have found evidence the Nautilus was sunk deliberately.
Extended search: A Swedish Sea Rescue Society unit searches for the remains of Kim Wall at Lundakra Bay between Barseback and Landskrona, in Sweden, last week
'Hot-tempered': Peter Madsen, pictured with fellow enthusiast Kristian von Bengtson and one of their rocket prototypes in 2010, allegedly has a history of lashing out at journalists
Miss Wall was a freelance journalist who graduated with a masters from Columbia University before going on to write about identity, gender, pop-culture, social justice and foreign policy.
She grew up in Sweden but spent time living in New York and Beijing. Her writing has appeared in Harpers, The Guardian, New York Times, Foreign Policy, Vice Magazine, Slate, South China Morning Post, The Atlantic, Roads & Kingdoms, and TIME.
The freelance reporter boarded the sub, which was built by Madsen, on the evening of Thursday 10th August in order to write a story about the inventor.
On Friday morning the Danish Navy were scrambled to help the stricken sub, before reporting it sunk at 10.45am.
Madsen claims he was the only one on board at the time, and that he dropped Miss Wall off at the mouth of the harbour shortly after 10pm the previous night.
But Danish police on Sunday said he has given them several conflicting accounts of what had happened, without elaborating further.
Passionate: Madsen's biographer has revealed that the hobby rocket builder has made enemies of the people he has worked with, and that his temper can flare unexpectedly
Police raised the wreckage of UC3 Nautilus two days after it went down, but failed to find a body or any other signs of Miss Wall
Around the time he claimed to have dropped Miss Wall off, Madsen sent a mysterious text to a friend saying she had left the vessel and cancelling a trip he was supposed to be taking on the submarine the following day, according to local reports.
He did not respond to questions from the friend about why he had dropped Miss Wall off or why the trip was being cancelled.
Madsen was arrested on manslaughter charges the following Saturday before a judge ordered that he be held in custody while investigations are carried out.
He is charged with having killed Miss Wall 'in an unknown way and in an unknown place sometime after 5pm on Thursday.'
Before the first court hearing, which was held in private and attended by his relatives, Madsen smiled, and chatted with both his lawyer and reporters.
If convicted, Madsen faces between five years and life in prison.
Madsen, an amateur enthusiast who had built the UC3 Nautilus himself, has a history of lashing out at journalists who gave his project bad press, his biographer has said.
'He often ends up in conflicts, and has a lot of enemies,' says Thomas Djursing, a journalist who has written a book about Madsen.
'He can throw tools at you. But at the same time, he's not a violent person. I've never been afraid of him,' he told Aftonbladet.
Mr Djursing adds that Madsen would often become angry with journalists who wrote about his ambitious projects in a negative way, and says 'I don't know a journalist who has not been in conflict with him'.
In Mr Djursing's book 'Rocket Madsen', the inventor describes himself as a 'nerd with few friends' who grew up with his elderly father after the parents' separation.
The UC3 Nautilus was raised from the bottom of Copenhagen harbour where it had been under 8m (24ft) of water since sinking on Friday morning
Despite not finding Miss Wall's body, Danish investigators are continuing to search in water and on land for any sign of her
Police technicians are pictured investigating the rescued private owned submarine UC3 Nautilus today
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