The Serial Strangler Who Finland Kept Setting Free | Michael Maria Penttilä
In one of the safest countries on earth, a man strangled his mother, a twelve-year-old girl, and two more women — and walked out of prison again and again.
Alexander Lawson tells the story of Jukka Torsten Lindholm, later Michael Maria Penttilä: the only Finn the FBI is said to have classified as a serial killer, a man psychiatrists called extremely dangerous, and a justice system that kept giving him another door.
From Oulu in 1985 to a Helsinki apartment in 2018 — four homicides, new names, parole, an open-prison escape, and a life sentence that finally closed the file.
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