An amateur submarine inventor has been charged with a journalist’s death

An amateur submarine builder is facing charges in connection with the disappearance of a Swedish journalist who was aboard his homemade ship for a story.

The vessel sank early Friday morning off the Danish coast as the inventor, Peter Madsen, escaped to a nearby rescue ship. But he told police that he had dropped off the reporter, Kim Wall, at a remote Copenhagen island around three hours into the trip.

Wall’s boyfriend had reported her missing when she didn’t come home that night after what was supposed to be a short evening voyage. Read more…

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