The Drive-Thru Killer: Esa Åkerlund
Just after 2 a.m. on 6 July 2010, a petty argument in a McDonald’s drive-through in Porvoo, Finland, ended with three men shot at close range. The gunman had turned 41 the day before — and seven months earlier he had walked out of prison after a life sentence for murdering his ex-wife.
Alexander Lawson tells the story of Esa Kalle Vihtori Åkerlund: the 1993 restaurant stabbing he was acquitted of, the 1995 home invasion that sent him down for life, the early release, and the minute of violence that put him back behind bars. Four confirmed dead. A fifth death that never stuck. A justice system…
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