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Kim Wall
Freelance
Denmark
Swedish freelance journalist Kim Wall skipped her own going-away party to interview inventor Peter Madsen aboard his self-made submarine, the Nautilus. She and her boyfriend planned to move to Beijing days later. Wall had been trying for months to interview the eccentric engineer for an article she hoped to sell to Wired magazine. She boarded the submarine in Copenhagen on Aug. 10, 2017, for a two-hour trip and was not seen again. Days later, police found her dismembered body. In April 2018, Madsen was convicted of murdering Wall and sentenced to life in prison. A graduate of the Columbia Journalism School in New York, Wall had reported from Uganda, Cuba, Kenya and North Korea. Her work was published in The New York Times, The Guardian and Time. Wall was 30. A former Columbia classmate and friend said: "Please don't remember her as the murdered Swedish journalist. Remember her work." |