The Tooth Killer: Ismo Junni and the Cabin Fires of Helsinki
A boy late for school opens a bathroom door in East Helsinki and sees his father standing over his mother. Ten years later he walks into a police station and says it was never an accident.
That phone call unmasks Ismo Junni — a Finnish construction worker, drinker, and father who murdered five people between 1980 and 1988. He drowned his wife in a bathtub, then burned drinking companions alive in summer cabins at Kivinokka. He pulled teeth from his victims and kept them.
Host Alexander Lawson tells the story of one of Finland’s rare serial killers: the “accidents” no one connected, the…
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