on 21 august 2017, a cyclist found wall's torso washed up on a beach in the southwest of amager. a post-mortem examination found 15 stab wounds, mostly in the groin. on 6 october, assisted by police dogs, police divers found two plastic bags in køge bay containing wall's head, legs, clothes and a knife; six days later, a saw was found in the water. on 21 and 29 november, police divers found wall's arms in the bay. police probed possible links to other murder cases in scandinavia, including the unsolved death of 22-year-old kazuko toyonaga in 1986 in copenhagen, but did not find connections to any of them.