The lake Bodom murder case is one of Finlands most infamous unsolved murders. On Saturday, June 4, 1960, four Finnish teenagers had decided to camp along the shore of Lake Bodom. Maila Irmeli Björklund and Anja Tuulikki Mäki were both aged 15 at the time, and accompanying them were their boyfriends Seppo Antero Boisman and Nils Wilhelm Gustafsson, both aged 18.
At some stage, a group of boys birdwatching had reportedly seen the tent collapsed and a blond man walking away from the site. The bodies of the victims were discovered at about 11:00 a.m, by a man named Esko Oiva Johansson, who alerted the police.
They had been brutally stabbed and beaten. The killer had not injured the victims from inside the tent, but instead had attacked the occupants from outside with a knife, and an unidentified blunt instrument (possibly a rock) through the sides of the tent.
One of the victims survived the attack, Nils Wilhelm Gustafsson, but with a broken jaw and severe head injuries. Now this mightn’t be the most mysterious unsolved case out their, but what I find interesting are the police sketches. Gustafsson had no memory of the attack, so through hypnosis they were able to make a sketch.
The above sketch looks almost unnatural, with an unusual bone structure. And you have to wonder how good hypnosis is at retrieving memories like this.
But a picture taken at one of the kids vigils caught this image of a man with same unusual bone structure. I would bet my life savings the man is blond as well. The case remains unsolved to this day. The police were able to come up with some suspects for the crime, but nothing would materialise.
They did arrest Nils Wilhelm Gustafsson, 40 years later, and charged him with the murder of his friends. Police maintained that he received the injury from a fight that happened in the tent, and when he was expelled, he came back and attacked his friends. After a trail he was later acquitted of all charges. Continue reading
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