Headless torso washed on Danish shore belonged to submarine journalist

Her mother, Ingrid Wall, also posted a moving tribute to her daughter on Facebook, saying: “She gave a voice to weak, vulnerable and marginalized people”.

Friends and former classmates spread word about Wall’s disappearance across the globe, hoping they could track her down. “She told human stories [about] incredibly complex issues that span generations”.

A similarly offbeat tale – about Peter Madsen, a Danish inventor who built his own submarine – led Wall, 30, to a gruesome death, with the discovery of her headless torso on August 21, days after the vessel sank.

Though Madsen, who gained some attention for building the world’s largest home-built submarine when it was first launched in 2008, originally denied knowing anything about Wall, after his sub was found he changed his story.

Emergency services scoured the area of sea to the east of Copenhagen and the submarine was eventually spotted from a lighthouse south of the Oresund bridge between Denmark and Sweden.

Police spokesman Jens Moller added: “There was also some metal attached to the body, allegedly also to make sure the body would sink to the bottom”.

The blood of Kim Wall has also been found aboard the submarine.

The 30-year-old was last seen alive on August 10 aboard the submarine. He is now in custody on suspicion of manslaughter.

According to Fox News on Wednesday afternoon, police have evidence suggesting that Madsen deliberately sank the sub after Wall was dead.

He later told police he buried her at sea after an accident aboard his submarine, UC3 Nautilus.

Wall’s mother posted a note onto Facebook which read, “We can not see the end of the disaster yet, and a lot of questions are still to be answered”.

The inventor, Peter Madsen, has been arrested on suspicion of killing her.Wall, 30, was last seen alive on the evening of August 10 on Madsen’s submarine, named UC3 Nautilus.

Wall was a graduate of Columbia University and London School of Economics, based between Beijing and NY.

If relatives say shiny, incapable of violence, others draw in hollow the portrait of a man anxious, irrascible, prompt to quarrel if his will is not satisfied.

She further said: “From all corners of the world we have received testimony to how she was able to be a person who made a difference”.

The pair spent six weeks together on the Pacific Ocean island country where the US conducted nuclear testing during the Cold War. She let us follow her to earthquake-hit Haiti, to Idi Amin’s torture chambers in Uganda and the mine fields of Sri Lanka. On Wednesday, a candlelight vigil was held by classmates at Columbia University’s School of Journalism in NY, where Ms Wall studied. Wall’s friends and relatives into grief.

“For her parties in Brooklyn she would project images of palm trees and tropical creatures”. Her Instagram account is packed with colourful and quirky photographs taken during her travels across the world.