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Speaker 1: Today's story is about four teenage friends who decide to
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Speaker 1: go camping in this big, beautiful forest in Finland that's
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Speaker 1: right near this huge lake. And when they get there,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's awesome. There's so many people there, the
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Speaker 1: weather's perfect. They're having a great time. But that night
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Speaker 1: it turned into an absolute nightmare because someone or something
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Speaker 1: paid those teams an unwanted visit. But before we get
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Speaker 1: into today's story. On the afternoon of June fourth, nineteen sixty,
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Speaker 1: a fifteen year old girl named Meyla Bjorklund climbed off
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Speaker 1: the back of her boyfriend's motorcycle. Her boyfriend was an
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Speaker 1: eighteen year old named Nils Gustophsen, and this couple had
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Speaker 1: just driven eighteen miles from the city in southern Finland
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Speaker 1: where they lived to get to this beautiful forest and
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Speaker 1: lake where they, along with another couple, were going to
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Speaker 1: go camping. The other couple, who was still a few
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Speaker 1: minutes behind them, was Nils's best friend, Seppo and his girlfriend,
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Speaker 1: whose name was Anja. As Nils parked his motorcycle, Mayla
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Speaker 1: looked out over the lake and she saw it was
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Speaker 1: totally beautiful. The forest completely wrapped around the lake, and
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Speaker 1: there were all these people out on the lake boating
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Speaker 1: and swimming and having a great time. But despite all
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Speaker 1: these people here, to Meyla, it still kind of felt
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Speaker 1: very quiet and peaceful. This didn't feel like a big
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Speaker 1: touristy destination. It really felt like they were out in
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Speaker 1: the wild. And for Mayla, who loved the outdoors, you know,
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Speaker 1: this felt like a great spot to celebrate her sixteenth birthday,
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Speaker 1: because that's actually why the couples were out camping. Mayla
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Speaker 1: was turning sixteen in a couple of days, and so
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Speaker 1: this was going to be your party. Just then, Mela
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Speaker 1: heard another motorcycle approaching and she turned around and she
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Speaker 1: saw it was the other couple. It was Seppo who
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Speaker 1: was driving, and Anja was right behind him and Seppo
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Speaker 1: he looked up and saw Meela looking at him, and
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Speaker 1: he grinned and breaked hard with his motorcycle and kind
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Speaker 1: of swung the back wheel out like he was in
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Speaker 1: an action movie. And Meyla thought it was totally funny
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Speaker 1: and she started laughing, and that's when Nils turned around
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Speaker 1: and he saw his girlfriend laughing heartily at Seppo. A
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Speaker 1: moment later, all four friends were giving each other hugs
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Speaker 1: and saying hello, and then after catching up, the friends
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Speaker 1: walked over to the small shack that was right by
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Speaker 1: the water. It was the snack Kiosk. Their plan was
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Speaker 1: to load up on supplies and then quickly make their
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Speaker 1: way into the forest where they'd actually be camping and
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Speaker 1: just relax, enjoy the night and go to bed. But
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Speaker 1: as the friends walked towards the snack Kiosk, Seppo made
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Speaker 1: a joke about how his motorcycle was way better than
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Speaker 1: Nils's motorcycle, and Mela, who was Nils's boyfriend, she laughed
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Speaker 1: at this joke and thought it was really funny. But
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Speaker 1: as she was laughing, she happened to look over at
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Speaker 1: Nils her own boyfriend, and she could tell, you know,
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Speaker 1: he just looked upset, like he was scowling at her
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Speaker 1: and also at Seppo. And immediately Mayla felt really bad
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Speaker 1: because she was thinking, you know, maybe Nils thinks I'm
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Speaker 1: flirting with Seppo by laughing at all of his jokes.
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Speaker 1: And so Mayla really did not want Nils to think
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Speaker 1: anything was going on with her and Seppo because there
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Speaker 1: was nothing going on. But when Maela looked over at
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Speaker 1: Nils again to kind of confirm that he really did
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Speaker 1: look mad, he didn't look mad. He was smiling and
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Speaker 1: laughing again. And so Mayla told herself, you know, she
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Speaker 1: must have just imagined that that Nils was never upset.
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Speaker 1: It was all in her head. So Mayla reached over
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Speaker 1: and grabbed Nils's hand, and the two couples walked the
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Speaker 1: rest of the way over to the kiosk. The snack
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Speaker 1: kiosk was really just this little shack right near the beach,
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Speaker 1: and then behind the shack was a small house where
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Speaker 1: the owners of the snack kiosk lived. And as soon
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Speaker 1: as they got up to the kiosk, Maela noticed the
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Speaker 1: woman who was manning the kiosk had her back to
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Speaker 1: them and didn't seem remotely interested in turning around and
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Speaker 1: helping them get what they needed, and so Mayla was
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Speaker 1: just like, Okay, hey, excuse me, we just want to
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Speaker 1: buy something. And the woman, at this point, she whipped
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Speaker 1: her head around and she looked at Meela really angrily
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Speaker 1: and just said, what do you want? And Mayla, who
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Speaker 1: was totally taken aback by this, she kind of mumbled
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Speaker 1: an apology, not really even sure if she did something
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Speaker 1: wrong or not, and then she asked the woman if
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Speaker 1: they could just get a couple of beers and sodas
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Speaker 1: and they'd be on their way. And as this is happening,
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Speaker 1: Seppo and Anja, who were right behind Mela, they were
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Speaker 1: just giggling the whole time because this woman's behavior was
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Speaker 1: so bizarre and so unexpected they just couldn't help themselves.
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Speaker 1: So as the teenagers are giggling, this woman is bending
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Speaker 1: down and getting the sodas in beer and she's huffing
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Speaker 1: really angrily like this is such a huge inconvenience, and
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Speaker 1: then she just slammed them up on the counter. As
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Speaker 1: the woman was punching in the total into the cash register,
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Speaker 1: Mayla found herself looking over at the house behind the
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Speaker 1: shack where this woman presumably lived, and Meela noticed there
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Speaker 1: were all these empty beer bottles that lined the front
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Speaker 1: railing of the house, and so Meyla figured, you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe this was a clue as to why this woman
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Speaker 1: was so hostile. Any household that produced that many empty
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Speaker 1: beer cans likely was not a very happy place to live.
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Speaker 1: And so finally the woman in the kiosk gave the
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Speaker 1: teenagers their total, at which point Nils stepped forward and
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Speaker 1: he actually paid for the stuff instead of Mela. And
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Speaker 1: then as Nils and Mela grabbed the things they bought
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Speaker 1: and were about to turn and leave, the woman in
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Speaker 1: the kiosk kind of cleared her voice and she asked them,
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Speaker 1: you know, hey, are you camping out by the lake?
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Speaker 1: And to Mela, it seemed like this woman was suddenly
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Speaker 1: being really nice, maybe as a way to kind of
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Speaker 1: make up for how rude she was when they first
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Speaker 1: walked over. And so Mela put on a smile and
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Speaker 1: told this woman that, yeah, you know, we're staying out
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Speaker 1: by the lake. We're really excited about it. You know,
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Speaker 1: thanks for asking, But the woman did not seem happy
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Speaker 1: to hear this. Instead, the woman kind of scowled and
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Speaker 1: then told them that they better set their tent as
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Speaker 1: far away from here as possible. None of the teenagers
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Speaker 1: had any idea how to respond to this, so they
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Speaker 1: just kind of stood there and there was this really intense,
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Speaker 1: awkward silence for a moment, and then the kiosk lady
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Speaker 1: just began literally shewing the teenagers away, telling them to
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Speaker 1: go get out of here. And so finally the teenagers
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Speaker 1: did turn around and started walking, but after walking pretty
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Speaker 1: far away from the kiosk, they heard the kiosk woman
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Speaker 1: yell out at them one more time. She basically yelled
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Speaker 1: at them that her and her family had already had
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Speaker 1: lots of trouble with wild teenagers in the past camping
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Speaker 1: out around this lake, and so now she and her
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Speaker 1: husband were totally sick of it. And so after the
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Speaker 1: kiosk lady yelled out this final comment, Sepo and Nils
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Speaker 1: and Anja they just started laughing because it just seemed
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Speaker 1: so absurd, how disrespectful and awful this woman was being,
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Speaker 1: to the point where it was comical. But Meyla, she
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Speaker 1: didn't think it was funny. She seemed mean and very angry,
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Speaker 1: and it totally freaked Meyla out, But just a couple
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Speaker 1: of minutes later the teens were back at their motorcycles,
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Speaker 1: and Nils and Mela hopped on one and Seppo and
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Speaker 1: Anja hopped on the other, and then they began driving
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Speaker 1: down this wooded path that would take them to their campsite.
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Speaker 1: The ride to their casite was a very short one,
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Speaker 1: and where they were positioned was on this piece of
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Speaker 1: land that sort of jutted out onto the lake. It
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Speaker 1: was very heavily forested, and so it's this amazing view
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Speaker 1: of the water, but it's very secluded in the trees.
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Speaker 1: And so right away Nils and Seppo they parked their
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Speaker 1: motorcycles up against the trees. They pulled out a simple
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Speaker 1: canvas tent and they strung it up between two birch trees,
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Speaker 1: and then with their campsite all set up, they grabbed
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Speaker 1: some beers and the friends began to drink. And it
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Speaker 1: didn't take long before Mela had totally forgotten about the
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Speaker 1: Kiosk woman and how awful she had been. After all,
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Speaker 1: Mayla had really been looking forward to this trip, and
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Speaker 1: now she was here at the campsite relaxing with her friends.
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Speaker 1: I mean this was great. Also, Mayla was really excited
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Speaker 1: about her relationship with Nils. It was a relatively new
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Speaker 1: one and it was obvious that for once her boyfriend
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Speaker 1: was somebody who liked her as much as she liked him.
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Speaker 1: And also Nils was very handsome, and he was popular,
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Speaker 1: and he had this dark brown hair that he combed
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Speaker 1: straight up, and he always wore this leather jacket everywhere,
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Speaker 1: and so Mayla just really being around him. He was
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Speaker 1: super cool and made her feel really grown up. After
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Speaker 1: sitting around for about thirty minutes to an hour, just
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Speaker 1: having a couple of drinks and swapping stories and kind
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Speaker 1: of easing into their night, the friends eventually made their
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Speaker 1: way down to the water and they went swimming for
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Speaker 1: a while, and they continued to drink down by the dock,
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Speaker 1: and then when they were tired of swimming, the teens
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Speaker 1: just laid on the dock and enjoyed looking out at
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Speaker 1: the sunset, even though actually in Finland at this time
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Speaker 1: of the year, it's not really a sunset because the
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Speaker 1: sun does not actually fully set, and so when this happens,
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Speaker 1: these are known as white nights, which are very beautiful.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's kind of like this hazy glow in
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Speaker 1: the sky from the sun not quite setting. And so
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Speaker 1: on this night the teens are out there on the dock.
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Speaker 1: They had this beautiful, you know, white night to look
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Speaker 1: up at, and for Meila, she felt like this was
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Speaker 1: the perfect birthday celebration. In fact, she would jot down
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Speaker 1: in her diary later that night just how amazing everything
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Speaker 1: was going and how much fun she was having with
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Speaker 1: Nils and their friends. Finally, the teens were done down
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Speaker 1: by the dock, so they grabbed their things, they went
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Speaker 1: back up to the campsite. They dried off, they changed,
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Speaker 1: and then all four of them piled into their one
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Speaker 1: little tent to go to sleep. And eventually all four
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Speaker 1: of them would drift off to sleep. But then at
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Speaker 1: some point in the middle of the night, Mala woke
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Speaker 1: up and she heard rustling sounds outside the tent, and
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Speaker 1: so she wondered if maybe one of the friends had
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Speaker 1: gotten up, And so she sat up and looked out
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Speaker 1: the tent, and she couldn't see anything. She just saw
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Speaker 1: the kind of hazy night sky from the white night,
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Speaker 1: and she couldn't really tell if everybody was inside the
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Speaker 1: tent or not. But then suddenly a dark shadowy figure
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Speaker 1: moved in front of the tent flap, the open tent flap,
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Speaker 1: and so this shadowy figure totally blocked all the light
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Speaker 1: that was coming into the tent from the white night.
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Speaker 1: And then this shadowy figure looked into the tent and
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Speaker 1: they had these bright, glowing red eyes, and before Mayla
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Speaker 1: or anybody else in the tent could do anything, there
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Speaker 1: was a snapping sound and the tent fell down on
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Speaker 1: four teenagers were at this lake. They were over to
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Speaker 1: the side doing some fishing, and they were looking kind
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Speaker 1: teenagers had stayed the night before, and this particular day,
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Speaker 1: the lake was not remotely crowded like it was the
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Speaker 1: day before. Basically it was a ghost town. And suddenly
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Speaker 1: they saw a merge from the forest basically where the
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Speaker 1: teens had camped. Was this young man with blonde hair
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Speaker 1: who was just running away from where that campsite was.
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Speaker 1: And so these boys just stared for a second at
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Speaker 1: this random guy with blonde hair running away from the campsite,
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Speaker 1: until the boys lost interest and just went back to fishing.
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Speaker 1: As the morning wore on, more and more people came
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Speaker 1: to the lake, but nobody made their way out to
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Speaker 1: the campsite where the teenagers had been the night before.
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Speaker 1: That is until a father and his two sons decided
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Speaker 1: to head out that way to go to that dock
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Speaker 1: to go swimming. And so this father and his sons
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Speaker 1: began walking on the same wooded trail that Nils and
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Speaker 1: Seppo had driven their motorcycles on to get out to
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Speaker 1: that camping site. And he eventually makes it to the
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Speaker 1: clearing in the forest where this campsite was, and right
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Speaker 1: away he spots what looks like a crumpled heap of
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Speaker 1: canvas kind of sitting between two trees, and he couldn't
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Speaker 1: really tell what it was, and so the father walked
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Speaker 1: a little bit closer to investigate, and eventually he realized
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Speaker 1: what they were actually walking up on, at which point
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Speaker 1: he threw up a hand to stop his sons from
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Speaker 1: going any closer, and he turned around and he told
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Speaker 1: his kids, we have to leave right now. And so
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Speaker 1: the father and his sons they run back up that trail,
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Speaker 1: they find a phone and they call the police. When
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Speaker 1: the police arrived at the lake just before noon, they
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Speaker 1: would walk out to that campsite and they would see
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Speaker 1: that crumpled heap of canvas, and then also in and
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Speaker 1: around that crumpled heap were the four bodies of the
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Speaker 1: four teenagers who had stayed there the night before. Anja
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Speaker 1: and Seppo had not even made it out of the tent.
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Speaker 1: They had been beaten and stabbed to death basically through
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Speaker 1: the canvas fabric. Meyla did manage to get out of
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Speaker 1: the tent, however, she did not escape. She was kind
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Speaker 1: of laying on top of the tent and she had
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Speaker 1: broken bones, and it would turn out she was stabbed
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Speaker 1: a total of fifteen times, and some of those stabs
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Speaker 1: came when she was alive and some came when she
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Speaker 1: was dead. And then laying next to her was the
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Speaker 1: body of her boyfriend, Nils, and he was basically un recognizable.
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Speaker 1: His head had been beaten to a pulp. As officers
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Speaker 1: descended on the scene and began rifling through the teenager's
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Speaker 1: backpacks and different belongings, one officer knelt down near all
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Speaker 1: the victims to look more closely at each of their injuries.
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Speaker 1: And as they were looking at each of the victims,
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Speaker 1: they suddenly heard this gasping sound. It was very faint,
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Speaker 1: but they could definitely hear it, and to their shock, Nils,
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Speaker 1: so Malo's boyfriend, he suddenly opened his eyes and he
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Speaker 1: looked up at this officer. He was still alive. And
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Speaker 1: this officer who's seeing this, who was totally convinced Nils
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Speaker 1: was dead, as everybody else was, was at first unsure
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Speaker 1: what to even do, but then a second later the
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Speaker 1: officer stood up and began screaming for a medic. After
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Speaker 1: Nils was taken away in an ambulance, the different investigative
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Speaker 1: teams that had descended on the scene began going over
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Speaker 1: the evidence and different things they had found, and pretty
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Speaker 1: quickly the general feel amongst all the investigators was, this
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Speaker 1: crime scene does not make any sense. There were some
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Speaker 1: things missing from the crime scene that seemed to indicate
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Speaker 1: this could have been a robbery, like missing wallets and
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Speaker 1: missing watches, but there were other things that were missing
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Speaker 1: that just didn't really make any sense to have been taken, like,
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Speaker 1: for example, the two motorcycles that the boys drove in.
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Speaker 1: They were still there, parked up against the tree, but
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Speaker 1: their keys were gone, So why still the keys and
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Speaker 1: not take the motorcycles? And then also Nils's prized leather
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Speaker 1: jacket and his shoes were also missing. These were not
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Speaker 1: particularly valuable. I mean, they might have been emotionally valuable
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Speaker 1: to Nils, but they certainly were not valuable enough to
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Speaker 1: warrant a robber, you know, killing people to get their
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Speaker 1: hands on them. So eventually the police actually called in
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Speaker 1: the military to come into the forest and help with
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Speaker 1: the search. And when the military arrived and began fanning
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Speaker 1: out all around this huge forest, they would make a
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Speaker 1: really big discovery. They would find Nils's shoes, and these
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Speaker 1: shoes were speckled with blood, and it was clear from
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Speaker 1: the bloody tracks nearby that the killer must have at
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Speaker 1: some point put these shoes on at the campsite and
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Speaker 1: then walked away while still wearing them, and then ultimately,
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Speaker 1: you know, ditch them five hundred meters away underneath that
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Speaker 1: pile of leaves. In the days after the murders, the
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Speaker 1: police chased down dozens of leads all over Finland, but
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Speaker 1: none of them amounted to anything. Nils would actually survive
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Speaker 1: the attack, but his face was so badly damaged, with
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Speaker 1: so many broken bones in his head that it took
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Speaker 1: a really long time before he could even speak. But
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Speaker 1: when he finally could and the police were able to
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Speaker 1: interview him, it became immediately clear that Nils did not
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Speaker 1: have a good memory of the attack, and in fact,
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Speaker 1: the day of the attack, basically the whole day he
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Speaker 1: didn't really remember it. However, Nils would remember one thing.
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Speaker 1: He said, during the chaos of the actual attack, he
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Speaker 1: distinctly remembered seeing a dark, shadowy figure with these bright red,
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Speaker 1: glowing eyes. But the police couldn't just go out and
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Speaker 1: look for a dark figure with red eyes, and so
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Speaker 1: instead they just made a note of this and continued
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Speaker 1: their investigation. The only real lead the police got were
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Speaker 1: from those two boys who were fishing out on the
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Speaker 1: lake a day after the murders happened, where they saw
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Speaker 1: that guy with blonde hair running away from where the
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Speaker 1: teens had camped. Now, these two boys didn't know the
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Speaker 1: significance of what they were seeing, but obviously when the
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Speaker 1: news broke about the murders, they were called seeing that
17:16
Speaker 1: guy right in the area where they now knew, you know,
17:19
Speaker 1: that's where the murders had happened. And so the police
17:21
Speaker 1: created a composite sketch of you know what the boys
17:24
Speaker 1: thought they saw this blonde guy running, and they would
17:27
Speaker 1: send this sketch all over Finland and they would ask people,
17:30
Speaker 1: you know, to come forward if you've seen this guy,
17:32
Speaker 1: and loads and loads of people immediately came forward and said, yep,
17:36
Speaker 1: I've seen that guy. But it would turn out the
17:38
Speaker 1: police were getting loads of false reports because the sketch
17:42
Speaker 1: looked like lots of men in Finland, so this was
17:45
Speaker 1: not a unique enough sketch basically. However, there was one
17:48
Speaker 1: tip that came into police that did really stand out.
17:51
Speaker 1: The day after the murders happened, a man named Hans
17:54
Speaker 1: Asman checked into a hospital located about thirteen miles away
17:58
Speaker 1: from where the lake was where the murders happened. And
18:00
Speaker 1: this guy Hans, when he checks into the hospital, he
18:03
Speaker 1: starts complaining of having these really intense stomach pins, but
18:06
Speaker 1: the doctors don't believe him because Hans actually just appears
18:09
Speaker 1: to be very drunk and very aggressive. First of all,
18:12
Speaker 1: he looked exactly like the police composite sketch of the
18:16
Speaker 1: blonde running guy, like he was that guy. And also
18:20
Speaker 1: Hans was filthy. He was covered in dirt and mud,
18:23
Speaker 1: and there was all this dirt kind of embedded in
18:25
Speaker 1: his fingernails like he had been digging with his hands.
18:27
Speaker 1: And he also had all these red stains all over
18:30
Speaker 1: his clothes that he refused to explain. And so eventually
18:33
Speaker 1: one of the doctors called the police, and when the
18:36
Speaker 1: police interviewed Hans, they would discover that he had a
18:39
Speaker 1: history of violence, and he also said he used to
18:41
Speaker 1: be a member of the Nazi Party, and he also
18:44
Speaker 1: was a member of the Russian Secret Police, and all
18:47
Speaker 1: of this just seemed like a lie. But basically he
18:49
Speaker 1: seemed like a very erratic and unstable person. But Hans
18:53
Speaker 1: had a rock solid alibi on the night of the murder.
18:57
Speaker 1: Hans was located in a city about fifteen miles away
19:00
Speaker 1: from where the murders happened, at his girlfriend's house, with
19:02
Speaker 1: his girlfriend and also his girlfriend's sister and brother in law.
19:06
Speaker 1: And so as much as they wanted Hans to be
19:08
Speaker 1: their guy, the police learned, you know, obviously he's not.
19:12
Speaker 1: And this was basically how the entire investigation went. The
19:15
Speaker 1: police would interview over four thousand people, but despite all that,
19:19
Speaker 1: they still could not figure out who did this, and
19:22
Speaker 1: so slowly the case went cold. And that was it
19:25
Speaker 1: for forty four years, lots of theories, but not one suspect.
19:29
Speaker 1: But then in two thousand and four, prosecutors made a
19:33
Speaker 1: stunning announcement. They said the killer was Nil's Gustafson, the
19:37
Speaker 1: eighteen year old boyfriend of Meyla, who was the only
19:40
Speaker 1: one who survived the attack, and the prosecutors pointed to
19:44
Speaker 1: two pieces of evidence to support this theory. The first
19:47
Speaker 1: piece of evidence was there was this woman who was
19:49
Speaker 1: staying out at the lake on the night of the murders,
19:52
Speaker 1: not far from the teenager's campsite, who remembered overhearing two
19:56
Speaker 1: men really aggressively fighting before the murders ultimately happened. Prosecutors
20:01
Speaker 1: hypothesized that what that woman overheard was Nils and Seppo
20:05
Speaker 1: fighting with each other, that Nils was met at Seppo
20:08
Speaker 1: about something to do with Nils's girlfriend, Mayla. You know,
20:11
Speaker 1: perhaps he really was upset that it seemed like Mala
20:14
Speaker 1: was flirting with Seppo and so Nils felt betrayed. But
20:17
Speaker 1: you know, something was happening there where these two young
20:19
Speaker 1: men were fighting over a girl. In the prosecutor's eyes,
20:23
Speaker 1: this would also explain why Meyla had been stabbed so
20:26
Speaker 1: many times. That basically Nils must have been so furious
20:30
Speaker 1: about whatever was happening between Mala and Seppo, and then
20:33
Speaker 1: you know, his rage took over and he really took
20:36
Speaker 1: it out on his girlfriend. The second piece of evidence
20:38
Speaker 1: the prosecutors used to support this idea that Nils was
20:41
Speaker 1: the killer were Nils's shoes, which were found under those
20:45
Speaker 1: leaves about five hundred meters away from their campsite. The
20:48
Speaker 1: prosecutor said there was blood on the shoes, but not
20:51
Speaker 1: in the shoes, and none of the blood that were
20:54
Speaker 1: on these shoes belonged to Nils, And so prosecutors say
20:58
Speaker 1: that shows Nils murdered his friends while wearing his shoes,
21:03
Speaker 1: and then you know, ran away from the campsite and
21:06
Speaker 1: ditched those shoes to hide them, you know, underneath those leaves,
21:09
Speaker 1: and then he came back to the campsite and inflicted
21:11
Speaker 1: those horrible injuries on himself to make it seem like
21:14
Speaker 1: he also had been attacked. So in the end, Nils,
21:17
Speaker 1: forty four years after the fact, got arrested for these murders.
21:21
Speaker 1: And at the time he was arrested, Nils was sixty
21:24
Speaker 1: two years old, he was working as a bus driver,
21:26
Speaker 1: and he was married with kids. But at Nils's trial
21:29
Speaker 1: he absolutely maintained his innocence and did not waiver from
21:33
Speaker 1: a story one bit. He basically said, look, I can't
21:37
Speaker 1: remember all the details of that day. I don't remember
21:40
Speaker 1: the attack very well. I don't really know what we
21:42
Speaker 1: did leading up to it what happened after it. But
21:44
Speaker 1: what I do remember is I saw a dark, shadowy
21:47
Speaker 1: figure with glowing red eyes. That's all I remember. And
21:50
Speaker 1: the jury completely believed him, and he was easily acquitted,
21:54
Speaker 1: and in the end Finland would even give him a
21:56
Speaker 1: huge monetary settlement for his mental suffering. Today, people tell
22:01
Speaker 1: lots of stories about these murders. I mean, the lake
22:04
Speaker 1: itself where this happened, Lake Bodom is now completely famous
22:08
Speaker 1: for these murders. People go there just to be in
22:10
Speaker 1: the same place where these teens were killed. But a
22:13
Speaker 1: lot of the stories that circulate about these murders are
22:16
Speaker 1: so far fetched that they just do not seem believable.
22:19
Speaker 1: Like suggesting that the campsite was cursed and that you know,
22:22
Speaker 1: the ghosts of murdered campers attacked the teens. It just
22:26
Speaker 1: does not seem like a viable theory. Other stories that
22:29
Speaker 1: circulate are really intriguing, but they don't really get you anywhere.
22:32
Speaker 1: Like periodically, there's this photo that will circulate on the Internet,
22:36
Speaker 1: and it's a picture of the crowd at one of
22:38
Speaker 1: the teen's funerals, And in the middle of this crowd
22:41
Speaker 1: is this guy whose face looks identical to that composite
22:44
Speaker 1: sketch of the running blonde man, And in fact, people
22:48
Speaker 1: have come out and said he looks exactly like that guy,
22:50
Speaker 1: Hans Osman, who had shown up in the hospital, you know,
22:53
Speaker 1: the day after the murders, with the dirt and what
22:55
Speaker 1: looked like blood all over him. But he had that alibi.
22:58
Speaker 1: And so that picture makes its rounds on the Internet
23:01
Speaker 1: and everybody gets jazzed up and says, there he is.
23:03
Speaker 1: That's the guy who killed the teens. But no one's
23:06
Speaker 1: ever been able to actually identify that person, and so
23:09
Speaker 1: it's gone nowhere. But there is one story that circulates
23:13
Speaker 1: about these murders that a lot of people believe is
23:16
Speaker 1: the truth. When the teenagers were killed, there was a
23:19
Speaker 1: fifty five year old man named Carl Voldemar Gilstrom who
23:23
Speaker 1: lived right on Lake Bodom, and Carl had a reputation
23:27
Speaker 1: for being really nasty and sometimes even lashing out at
23:30
Speaker 1: the campers who stayed in this area, And in fact,
23:33
Speaker 1: Carl would often get drunk and literally go and attack
23:36
Speaker 1: the other campers. He would cut down their tents in
23:39
Speaker 1: the middle of the night. He would throw rocks at
23:40
Speaker 1: their campsite and then one time he even fired a
23:44
Speaker 1: gun at a camper who was riding past him on
23:46
Speaker 1: a moped. He missed, But I mean, this guy is
23:49
Speaker 1: an absolute nightmare. And so after the murders happened, locals
23:53
Speaker 1: who knew about Carl immediately went to police and they
23:56
Speaker 1: were like, that's the guy who very likely did this.
23:59
Speaker 1: I mean, this is it's totally something he would do.
24:01
Speaker 1: But when police went and tried to speak to Carl,
24:05
Speaker 1: they wound up speaking to Carl's wife, who was the
24:08
Speaker 1: Kiosk woman, the woman who was so nasty to the
24:11
Speaker 1: teens when they first arrived and basically told them to
24:14
Speaker 1: get away. Yeah, so the police talked to her and
24:16
Speaker 1: she would tell police that Carl was with her and
24:19
Speaker 1: her kids when the murders happened, and so the police
24:22
Speaker 1: believed her and never really considered Carl a serious suspect.
24:26
Speaker 1: But in the Lake Bodamia, when people heard he was
24:28
Speaker 1: not being looked at closely, people felt like this was
24:31
Speaker 1: a huge mistake. But nine years after the murders, so
24:35
Speaker 1: at this point the case is totally cold. Carl is
24:39
Speaker 1: having a drink with his neighbor out near the Lake
24:41
Speaker 1: Bodamia and as they're just sitting there having drinks, relaxing.
24:45
Speaker 1: Carl winds up admitting to the neighbor that he was
24:48
Speaker 1: the Lake Bodem murderer. He literally said to his neighbor,
24:51
Speaker 1: don't you understand that I'm the murderer of Bodom. And
24:54
Speaker 1: the neighbor apparently was so caught off guard and so
24:57
Speaker 1: horrified by this that they said to Carl, well, if
25:00
Speaker 1: that's the truth, you should go drown yourself. And then
25:03
Speaker 1: the next day where was Carl found out in the lake,
25:07
Speaker 1: drowned right near where the teens had been attacked. Now,
25:10
Speaker 1: the police were never able to actually figure out if
25:13
Speaker 1: his death was accidental, or if he had done it
25:16
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25:18
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25:22
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