Missing in Finland: The Disappearance of Piia Ristikankare
What happened to the teen after she walked out of her family home in 1988?
11 min readJul 22, 2021
On Friday, October 7, 1988, fifteen-year-old Piia Ristikankare finished her day at the vocational school in Turku, southwest Finland where she was studying housekeeping. She was planning to spend the weekend at a female friend’s home but her…