Häkä-Enska: The Carbon Monoxide Killer of 1971 Finland
Summer 1971. A white Dodge Dart on a Finnish highway. A hitchhiker puts out her thumb. She never gets out.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson tells the story of Ensio Kalevi Koivunen — known as Häkä-Enska, Carbon Monoxide Enska — and the three young women who died in his car: Salme Metsänikula, 23, and seventeen-year-olds Ritva Raijas and Pirjo Laiho.
There was no knife and no gunshot. Exhaust was fed into the cabin through a hidden hose. The air itself became the weapon.
Lawson follows the disappearances, the bodies found in woods and a gravel pit, the fingerprint on a…
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