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The Lake Bodom Murders
Who Killed Finnish Teenagers Seppo Boisman, Maili Björklund and Tuulikki Mäki?
The White Night
In June, in the southern part of Finland, the sun dips just below the horizon and the ‘white night’ falls. White nights are beautiful and magical. They can make it hard to sleep. They can also be eery: the light has a strange, greyish quality which is different from dusk or dawn instead, it's like someone dialed down the brightness for a few hours. During these ‘not-quite-nights’ the world falls silent.
On one such Finnish white night, June 4 — June 5, 1960, a violent triple murder would occur which has never been solved.
Camping at Lake Bodom
Lake Bodom is a large tranquil lake surrounded by small villages and stands of birch and pine trees, 20 km (12 miles) west of the Finnish capital Helsinki and just north of the city of Espoo.
On Saturday 4 June 1960, four teenagers from the city of Vantaa two boys — Seppo Boisman, 18, and his best friend Nils Gustafsson, 18 — and two girls — Maili Björklund, 15, and her friend Tuulikki Mäki, 15 — arrived together at the south shore of Lake Bodom with their tent for a night of camping.
