Benjamin Haas
With more than five hundred killings during the last ten years, journalism is one of the most dangerous professions in the world. Today I'm going to talk one of these journalists- Kim Wall.
Kim Wall was 30 year old, an independent journalist from Sweden. She specialized in stories about identity, gender or subcultures, often with social justice themes. Kim works has appeared in Harpers, The Guardian, New York Times, Vice Magazine, Slate, South China Morning Post, The Atlantic, Roads & Kingdoms, TIME and many others publications. Her writing has been translated to several languages. The 30 year old freelance reporter had travelled the world pursuit of her stories- from Uganda to Cuba to the Marshall Islands to Kenya to New York City.
She was intellectual, so well-travelled and had such varied interests. She was interested in unique and eccentric stories.
Kim Wall wanted to report the story of a Danish man who had started building rockets as a teenager, invented the largest private submarine and also about his plans to build an amateur space rocket. When journalist decided to report the story from this man Madsen she asked to be taken for a ride by his private submarine in August 10 2017 From that time when they went deep into the sea no one heard from her.
Kim’s boyfriend raised the alarm the next day when she did not return from the trip. Madsen was rescued at sea after his submarine sank the same day. Police believed he specifically wanted to drown his homemade submarine. Eleven days after disappearing Kim's body was found, but her head, legs, arms and clothes, were discovered by police at 6 October. Madsen have stabbed her fifteen times and cut off her head, legs, arms, and thew it into the sea with heavy metal peaces in the bags.
Since Peter Madsen was arrested he gave three versions of what happened. From the beginning he told police that he had dropped off the reporter before the submarine began to drown. Then he said that submarine's seventy kilograms hatch fell on Ms Wall's head after a "terrible accident" on board, and that he dumped her body into the water. Finally, he told police that the journalist had been killed by carbon monoxide poisoning while he was up on deck.
During the opening session of his trial, prosecutors said there was a suspicion that he had "psychopathic tendencies" after investigators discovered films on his computer showing women being tortured and brutally killed.
She would have been shared fair and beautiful portrait of an unusual character, but became a victim of a cruel crime.
Kim Wall was 30 year old, an independent journalist from Sweden. She specialized in stories about identity, gender or subcultures, often with social justice themes. Kim works has appeared in Harpers, The Guardian, New York Times, Vice Magazine, Slate, South China Morning Post, The Atlantic, Roads & Kingdoms, TIME and many others publications. Her writing has been translated to several languages. The 30 year old freelance reporter had travelled the world pursuit of her stories- from Uganda to Cuba to the Marshall Islands to Kenya to New York City.
She was intellectual, so well-travelled and had such varied interests. She was interested in unique and eccentric stories.
Kim Wall wanted to report the story of a Danish man who had started building rockets as a teenager, invented the largest private submarine and also about his plans to build an amateur space rocket. When journalist decided to report the story from this man Madsen she asked to be taken for a ride by his private submarine in August 10 2017 From that time when they went deep into the sea no one heard from her.
Kim’s boyfriend raised the alarm the next day when she did not return from the trip. Madsen was rescued at sea after his submarine sank the same day. Police believed he specifically wanted to drown his homemade submarine. Eleven days after disappearing Kim's body was found, but her head, legs, arms and clothes, were discovered by police at 6 October. Madsen have stabbed her fifteen times and cut off her head, legs, arms, and thew it into the sea with heavy metal peaces in the bags.
Since Peter Madsen was arrested he gave three versions of what happened. From the beginning he told police that he had dropped off the reporter before the submarine began to drown. Then he said that submarine's seventy kilograms hatch fell on Ms Wall's head after a "terrible accident" on board, and that he dumped her body into the water. Finally, he told police that the journalist had been killed by carbon monoxide poisoning while he was up on deck.
During the opening session of his trial, prosecutors said there was a suspicion that he had "psychopathic tendencies" after investigators discovered films on his computer showing women being tortured and brutally killed.
She would have been shared fair and beautiful portrait of an unusual character, but became a victim of a cruel crime.