The 2017 murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall seized the world’s attention, likely for two reasons. The first is the mix of gruesome and unexpected details of her killing at the hands of Peter Madsen, a Danish inventor who invited Wall into his homemade submarine under the pretense of an interview before dismembering her body and disposing of it in the bay between Denmark and Sweden.
The second is that Wall was a promising young woman — a worldly and accomplished 30-year-old who was planning an imminent move to China —whose light was extinguished by a violent misogynist when she was only trying to do her job.
She saw herself as a teller of truths. He only saw her as a target. HBO’s The Investigation is meant as a tribute, of sorts, to.
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