Lake Bodom Murders
Lake Bodom Murders The Bodominjärvi Murders is one of the most infamous unsolved homicide cases in Finnish criminal history. On June 5, 1960, at Bodom Lake, 15-year-old females, Maila Irmeli Björklund and Anja Tuulikki Mäki, and 18-year-old male, Seppo Antero Boisman, were killed while sleeping inside a tent by stabbing and blunt force trauma to their heads. The fourth youth, then 18-years-old, Nils Wilhelm Gustafsson, was found outside of the tent badly injured. Sometime between 4:00 AM and 6:00 AM during the early morning hours of Sunday, June 5, 1960, Mäki, Björklund and Boisman were all stabbed and bludgeoned to death by an unknown assailant. Gustafsson, the only survivor of the massacre, sustained a concussion, fractures to the jaw and facial bones and bruises to the face, but lived. He stated afterwards that he had seen a glimpse of an attacker clothed in black and bright red coming for them. At about 6:00 AM, a number of boys birdwatching some distance away had reportedly seen t...