Lake Bodom murders
The attack
On Saturday, June 4th 1960, four Finnish teenagers had decided to camp on the shore of Lake Bodom in southern Finland. Two girls, Maila Irmeli Björklund and Anja Tuulikki Mäki, were both 15 at the time, were accompanied by their boyfriends, Seppo Antero Boisman and Nils Wilhelm Gustafsson, both 18-years-old.
Sometime between 4AM and 6AM they were attacked by unknown assailant while they were in their tent. The attack left Mäki, Björklund and Boisman dead from stab wounds and hit to the head from blunt object. The fourth teenager, Gustafsson, survived the attack with fractured facial bones. While Mäki and Boisman were found inside of the tent, Björklund and Gustafsson were found on top of the tent material.
Around 6AM a group of boys birdwatching some distance away had reportedly seen the collapsed tent and a blond man walking away from the site. The bodies of the victims were discovered around 11AM by a carpenter named Esko Oiva Johansson. He alerted the police, who arrived on the scene at noon and started the investigation without securing the area around the tent (which had disastrous consequences).
The single survivor, Nils Gustafsson, had amnesia most likely caused by head injuries. Under hypnosis he supposedly told police the he had seen a glimpse of the attacker and described him as a blond man wearing black clothes. He also mentioned that attacker had "bright red eyes", which shows how reliable witness he was at the moment.
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