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CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: And we are so thankful for all the people who made the absolute effort, too, that we could bring Kim home again. So, we see this TV series as an honor to all these men and women that do their utmost, so that we could have Kim came back and bury her here at home.
JOACHIM WALL, FATHER OF KIM WALL: In some way, our…
AMANPOUR: And, Joachim, what are your views?
J. WALL: We didn’t give any interviews, nothing under the time the search for Kim was going on. And it was — it’s the same as Ingrid said. So many things have been written about this case, but not about Kim, who she was, what she has done, and so on. And the effort of all those peoples that has done possible to get the murder victim is — we would like to give them the thank you for that.
I. WALL: And it’s also important for but that Kim is portrayed as a journalist, not as a crime victim. She was a journalist on an assignment. She was…
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AMANPOUR: Exactly.
I. WALL: Yes.
AMANPOUR: Yes. And that was very, very — definitely very prominent in the series. So, let me ask you, Tobias Lindholm. I mean, the murder was gruesome, I hesitate even to speak about it. But her torso was dismembered. Her legs were and her arms were all found separately, her head. And it was a terrible, terrible, terrible shock for the whole world, and obviously for her family. What was it that made you want to really get to the bottom of this investigation? And what was your connection? Obviously, Jens Moller, the head of homicide in Copenhagen, played a huge role.
TOBIAS LINDHOLM, DIRECTOR, “THE INVESTIGATION”: Well, as everybody else in Denmark, I followed the story unfold in the press back in the late summer of 2017. And I quite fast turned my back to it, because it felt like that the media was reproducing a plot from a crime show that I had seen 100 times before. I just — as everybody else, I felt great sympathy with the people involved, but I didn’t find any interest in following the obsession with the darkness that I saw in both local and international press. And not until I met Jens Moller, who was the chief investigator of Copenhagen homicide back then, and he told me some of his story after this case, I realized that that darkness that had been described in so many details in the press, that darkness had a light inside of it. It had a story about a system that worked, a society that stood together
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Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson discusses vaccine rollout and the state of the Republican Party. Tobias Lindholm, Ingrid Wall and Joachim Wall discuss the murder of journalist Kim Wall and the new HBO series “The Investigation.” Andrew Ross Sorkin explains how Reddit users threw the stock market into disarray.
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