Full Transcript for Case 194: Lake Bodom

homes. 69 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:07.529 As they grew older, their lives followed similar paths. They 70 00:06:07.569 --> 00:06:12.089 became electricians after graduating school and gained employment at the 71 00:06:12.149 --> 00:06:18.819 same electromechanical plant. By May of 1960, Seppo had turned 72 00:06:18.819 --> 00:06:23.439 18 and was dating 15-year-old high school student Anya Maki, 73 00:06:23.860 --> 00:06:28.759 who went by her middle name of Tuliki. Tuliki introduced 74 00:06:28.930 --> 00:06:32.850 Seppo and Niels to her own best friend, Myla Björklund. 75 00:06:34.029 --> 00:06:38.230 She was also 15 and was known by her middle name, Irmeli. 76 00:06:39.870 --> 00:06:43.790 Irmeli was charmed by Nils, with his slicked-back brown hair 77 00:06:43.930 --> 00:06:47.540 and rockabilly fashion sense inspired by the king of rock 78 00:06:47.579 --> 00:06:52.740 and roll, Elvis Presley. The pair officially became a couple 79 00:06:52.879 --> 00:06:59.870 just after Nils' 18th birthday. About two weeks later, the 80 00:06:59.930 --> 00:07:03.709 four teenagers decided that an overnight camping trip to Lake 81 00:07:03.790 --> 00:07:06.629 Budum would be a great way to celebrate the start 82 00:07:06.670 --> 00:07:12.470 of the holidays. Irmeli was particularly excited about the upcoming break, 83 00:07:12.850 --> 00:07:15.350 as it was the first summer where she wasn't needed 84 00:07:15.410 --> 00:07:21.060 to look after her two younger brothers. Despite the girls' excitement, 85 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:24.600 their parents were reluctant to give their blessing for the trip. 86 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:30.500 Although they had always found Seppo and Nils respectful and trustworthy, 87 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:34.970 the idea of their young daughters staying out overnight didn't 88 00:07:35.110 --> 00:07:41.720 sit right. Eventually, both Irmeli and Tuliki's parents relented and 89 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:46.819 they were permitted to go. The boys fared much easier. 90 00:07:47.810 --> 00:07:50.889 Seppl convinced his mother and father that the trip would 91 00:07:50.930 --> 00:07:54.209 be safe as the lake was only a 30-minute drive 92 00:07:54.310 --> 00:07:58.829 northwest from their home city of Helsinki. It wasn't as 93 00:07:58.889 --> 00:08:03.889 though they would be camping in some remote wilderness. Nils' 94 00:08:03.949 --> 00:08:07.160 parents had no problem with him camping and fishing with 95 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:11.199 Seppl for the night, although Nils failed to mention that 96 00:08:11.259 --> 00:08:16.300 the girls would be with them. And so it was settled. 97 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:22.949 On Saturday June 4 1960, Seppo, Nils, Tuliki and Irmeli 98 00:08:23.230 --> 00:08:27.629 would venture to Lake Budum. The timing was perfect for 99 00:08:27.649 --> 00:08:30.550 the young couples, as they would wake up together on 100 00:08:30.589 --> 00:08:35.730 the morning of the Christian holiday known as Pentecost. In Finland, 101 00:08:36.009 --> 00:08:40.009 there was a saying, If you don't have a sweetheart 102 00:08:40.090 --> 00:08:48.539 on Pentecost, you won't have one all summer. Sepol borrowed 103 00:08:48.580 --> 00:08:51.519 a canvas tent from work and got his hands on 104 00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:57.779 some alcohol, a half-litre bottle of salmasari liquor, a 370ml 105 00:08:57.850 --> 00:09:01.309 bottle of citrus liquor and a couple of pale lagers. 106 00:09:02.909 --> 00:09:07.610 The boys packed bread, sausages, snacks and fishing equipment, as 107 00:09:07.669 --> 00:09:10.850 well as various knives and a pair of pliers to 108 00:09:11.029 --> 00:09:16.440 use as tools. By Saturday afternoon, Nils and Seppo were 109 00:09:16.500 --> 00:09:21.019 cruising to Lake Buldum on their motorcycles, their girlfriends clinging 110 00:09:21.100 --> 00:09:26.830 tightly to their respective backs. At about 5pm, they pulled 111 00:09:26.950 --> 00:09:29.570 up to the south side of the lake and found 112 00:09:29.669 --> 00:09:33.169 the ideal camping spot at the tip of a small peninsula. 113 00:09:34.789 --> 00:09:37.490 It was a short walk east from the lake's main 114 00:09:37.529 --> 00:09:41.039 swimming area, but was screened off from the beach by 115 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:46.590 another small peninsula in between. They unloaded their bags in 116 00:09:46.629 --> 00:09:50.779 a clearing that overlooked the lake. Rather than setting up 117 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:54.620 camp right away, they fired up the motorbikes again and 118 00:09:54.659 --> 00:09:57.629 headed back about a kilometre down the road to a 119 00:09:57.690 --> 00:10:02.039 kiosk they had passed on the way in. There, the 120 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:05.039 boys bought several packets of chewing gum and a few 121 00:10:05.100 --> 00:10:10.440 bottles of soft drink as mixers for their liquors. By 122 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:13.460 the time the group arrived back at their campsite, it 123 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:18.320 was about 7.15pm. There were still a few swimmers in 124 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:24.090 the water, but their numbers were dwindling. Nils and Seppl 125 00:10:24.230 --> 00:10:27.809 unrolled the tent with the opening facing east, away from 126 00:10:27.850 --> 00:10:32.570 the swimming beach. They cut some thick birch sticks from 127 00:10:32.610 --> 00:10:37.389 the trees and sharpened them into makeshift tent poles. One 128 00:10:37.409 --> 00:10:40.529 of the boys found a decent-sized rock down by the 129 00:10:40.610 --> 00:10:43.740 shore and used it to hammer the stakes into the ground. 130 00:10:44.940 --> 00:10:48.120 Then they tied off the guy lines and stepped back 131 00:10:48.259 --> 00:10:53.470 to admire their handiwork. It was a typical A-frame tent, 132 00:10:53.809 --> 00:10:58.450 which stood at 113cm at its highest point through the middle, 133 00:10:59.129 --> 00:11:04.159 not tall enough for any of them to stand inside. 134 00:11:04.179 --> 00:11:09.019 At 138cm wide, it

barely had room for two, but 135 00:11:09.220 --> 00:11:12.860 the 14s would make it work. It was just going 136 00:11:12.899 --> 00:11:19.669 to be a very tight fit. Early the next morning, 137 00:11:20.129 --> 00:11:23.730 two teenage friends were strolling along the southern shore of 138 00:11:23.809 --> 00:11:29.269 Lake Budum. Just before 6am, the boys reached the eastern 139 00:11:29.289 --> 00:11:34.389 peninsula when they heard a voice. Drawn to the sound, 140 00:11:34.730 --> 00:11:37.950 they climbed up a ridge and into the surrounding woodland 141 00:11:38.090 --> 00:11:43.970 to investigate. There, they spotted two motorcycles leaning up against 142 00:11:44.110 --> 00:11:48.659 some birch trees. Behind them, in a clearing, was a 143 00:11:48.700 --> 00:11:54.019 collapsed tent. The boys were certain that a man was 144 00:11:54.100 --> 00:11:57.549 lying on top of it. They couldn't see his face, 145 00:11:57.850 --> 00:12:00.889 but they spotted a pair of legs in dark trousers. 146 00:12:02.210 --> 00:12:07.629 It looked like he was stirring slightly. Then, some activity 147 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:12.179 a little further away caught their attention. Another man was 148 00:12:12.220 --> 00:12:16.600 heading away from the tent into the trees. The boys 149 00:12:16.700 --> 00:12:19.379 didn't see his face, but he looked to be an 150 00:12:19.399 --> 00:12:24.629 adult wearing a light-coloured shirt. They couldn't tell which direction 151 00:12:24.690 --> 00:12:29.470 he headed after reaching the trees. Perhaps he'd stopped walking 152 00:12:29.710 --> 00:12:34.450 once he was hidden from view. The boys wanted to 153 00:12:34.509 --> 00:12:38.120 take a closer look at the motorcycles, but decided they 154 00:12:38.149 --> 00:12:46.509 shouldn't risk disturbing the campers, and left. 14-year-old Olavi Kivilati 155 00:12:46.669 --> 00:12:51.100 was perched on a rocky outcropping overlooking Lake Budum, waiting 156 00:12:51.169 --> 00:12:55.419 for his fishing buddy. The sun had already risen by 157 00:12:55.460 --> 00:13:00.960 the time he'd arrived and the morning was calm and quiet. Then, 158 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:05.789 at about 6am, Olavi's solitude was broken by a man 159 00:13:05.870 --> 00:13:09.730 emerging from some trees near the base of the eastern peninsula, 160 00:13:10.169 --> 00:13:14.940 about 80 metres away. He looked to be in his 20s, 161 00:13:15.269 --> 00:13:19.029 was of average height, and had brown hair combed backwards. 162 00:13:20.230 --> 00:13:25.269 He was wearing a light top and dark pants. The 163 00:13:25.289 --> 00:13:29.470 man moved quickly and purposefully down to the peninsula's base 164 00:13:29.850 --> 00:13:36.259 and continued south before disappearing out of Olivi's sight. It 165 00:13:36.299 --> 00:13:40.279 was several hours later when Ruth Colley discovered the collapsed 166 00:13:40.419 --> 00:13:45.710 tent and pointed it out to her husband. By 10am, 167 00:13:46.029 --> 00:13:49.429 more people had noticed the tent, including a group of 168 00:13:49.529 --> 00:13:53.769 teenagers who had been swimming in the lake. They too 169 00:13:53.909 --> 00:13:56.620 thought it looked as though the young campers had been 170 00:13:56.669 --> 00:14:01.620 in a fight and carried on with their mourning. Then, 171 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:07.500 at 11.15am, a passerby realised something far more sinister had 172 00:14:07.539 --> 00:14:13.240 taken place and rushed to a nearby construction site. Using 173 00:14:13.299 --> 00:14:16.639 the phone in its office to call the police, he 174 00:14:16.700 --> 00:14:20.460 informed them that there had been a slaughter at Lake Bodum. 175 00:14:25.710 --> 00:14:31.269 Upon observing the campsite for themselves, local officers immediately contacted 176 00:14:31.370 --> 00:14:37.289 the Central Criminal Police. Special investigators arrived and examined the 177 00:14:37.340 --> 00:14:42.649 bodies bundled close together. Seppo Boisman was lying under the 178 00:14:42.730 --> 00:14:47.330 folds at the edge of the tent. His legs, dressed 179 00:14:47.409 --> 00:14:52.009 in blue jeans that were unbuttoned at the fly, were outstretched. 180 00:14:53.429 --> 00:14:56.700 He also wore a blue collared shirt and his hands 181 00:14:56.820 --> 00:15:00.240 rested on his chest, almost as if he was sleeping. 182 00:15:01.659 --> 00:15:06.000 But Seppo was not asleep. He had been hit with 183 00:15:06.059 --> 00:15:09.360 a blunt object multiple times in the head and jaw, 184 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:13.529 producing four fractures to the left side of his skull. 185 00:15:15.029 --> 00:15:18.950 Curious onlookers watched as a police officer lifted one of 186 00:15:19.009 --> 00:15:23.799 the tent folds that covered Sepo's head, revealing that he 187 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:28.600 had also been stabbed through the tent's canvas. There were 188 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:33.399 wounds in his neck and trachea. The fatal strike was 189 00:15:33.470 --> 00:15:38.240 another stab wound that had punctured Sepo's chest cavity. He 190 00:15:38.269 --> 00:15:41.000 would not have been able to move before he bled 191 00:15:41.179 --> 00:15:47.240 out into his lungs. His girlfriend, Tulikimaki, was curled up 192 00:15:47.419 --> 00:15:51.940 face down and partially covered with a blanket. Her blue 193 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:55.799 jeans were fastened, but her yellow blouse had ridden up 194 00:15:55.870 --> 00:16:01.750 her torso, exposing her midriff. She too had suffered severe 195 00:16:01.830 --> 00:16:05.990 blunt force trauma to her head, which caused multiple fractures 196 00:16:06.070 --> 00:16:11.750 to her skull. Irmeli Björklund was near the tent's doorway, 197 00:16:12.110 --> 00:16:16.029 her left leg parallel to Tuliki's back, and her right 198 00:16:16.090 --> 00:16:22.019 leg bent around Tuliki's head. Irmeli's light green jeans were 199 00:16:22.059 --> 00:16:25.559 down below her knees, with the right pant leg pulled 200

00:16:25.620 --> 00:16:31.539 off entirely, exposing her lower half. Her beige blouse and 201 00:16:31.659 --> 00:16:35.139 light blue sweater had also been pulled up to her shoulders, 202 00:16:35.590 --> 00:16:41.620 exposing her torso and bra. At least three powerful strikes 203 00:16:41.700 --> 00:16:45.899 with a blunt heavy object had shattered Irmeli's skull across 204 00:16:45.940 --> 00:16:50.279 her forehead and produced further fractures along her jaw and 205 00:16:50.299 --> 00:16:54.940 the side of her face. These blows were enough to 206 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:59.279 cause severe swelling and bleeding of the brain, resulting in 207 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:05.799 almost immediate death. But the killer had also stabbed Irmeli 208 00:17:05.799 --> 00:17:10.930 15 times in her neck and shoulders, She had clearly 209 00:17:11.069 --> 00:17:16.619 borne the brunt of the attack. Nils Gustafsson was lying 210 00:17:16.700 --> 00:17:19.579 on top of the tent, dressed in a grey sweater, 211 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:24.799 dark jeans and socks. The entire left side of his 212 00:17:24.880 --> 00:17:28.849 face was swollen and bruised, including his eye, which was 213 00:17:28.930 --> 00:17:34.049 sealed shut. Nils had suffered a fracture to the left 214 00:17:34.170 --> 00:17:37.829 side of his lower jaw and another to the temporal bone, 215 00:17:38.289 --> 00:17:42.519 otherwise known as the ear canal. The left side of 216 00:17:42.579 --> 00:17:47.759 his upper jaw and his cheekbone were also fractured. Nils 217 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:52.480 had been slashed multiple times with a knife. He had 218 00:17:52.519 --> 00:17:55.339 a gash on the back of his left forearm and 219 00:17:55.400 --> 00:18:00.740 another along his left cheek. This second wound was so 220 00:18:00.839 --> 00:18:04.099 deep it had cut through the entire depth of skin 221 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:11.079 and muscle, exposing his teeth. Police determined that the killer 222 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:15.089 had intentionally cut the tent's guy lines before the attack. 223 00:18:16.269 --> 00:18:19.990 As the tent collapsed onto the sleeping teens, the exact 224 00:18:20.109 --> 00:18:23.470 location of each of their heads would have become obvious. 225 00:18:25.109 --> 00:18:30.589 The four victims were effectively trapped, confused and disoriented, with 226 00:18:30.710 --> 00:18:35.029 no means of escape. The killer would not have known 227 00:18:35.109 --> 00:18:38.990 the order in which they were sleeping, so he likely 228 00:18:39.170 --> 00:18:47.380 unleashed the violent blitz attack indiscriminately. Items recovered at the 229 00:18:47.420 --> 00:18:50.819 crime scene correlated with what the teens had packed for 230 00:18:50.859 --> 00:18:57.839 their weekend getaway. Bags, clothing, cigarette boxes, makeup, bread, and 231 00:18:57.880 --> 00:19:02.019 a red leather songbook that belonged to Tuliki were catalogued. 232 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:07.680 Two table knives and two

pocket knives were found, but 233 00:19:07.819 --> 00:19:12.240 none were the bladed weapon wielded by the killer. The 234 00:19:12.299 --> 00:19:16.829 pale lager bottles were found, one empty, one full, along 235 00:19:16.890 --> 00:19:21.210 with multiple bottles of soda. Some of the soda bottles 236 00:19:21.269 --> 00:19:24.650 were empty. but one still contained a mix of soft 237 00:19:24.670 --> 00:19:30.180 drink and the citrus liquor. A foreign fingerprint not belonging 238 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:33.119 to any of the teens was found on one bottle. 239 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:40.869 The bottle of Saumisari liquor was never located. Other, more 240 00:19:40.940 --> 00:19:46.750 crucial items were also missing. Notably, each of the teenagers' 241 00:19:46.809 --> 00:19:52.359 wallets and IDs, another knife they had passed, Seppo's leather jacket, 242 00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:58.119 and the keys to the motorcycles. The girls hadn't brought 243 00:19:58.240 --> 00:20:02.460 any watches, but the boys had, and they were missing too. 244 00:20:05.079 --> 00:20:09.569 Over the next day or two, community volunteers joined police 245 00:20:09.660 --> 00:20:13.809 and military personnel in an extensive search of the entire 246 00:20:13.930 --> 00:20:19.170 Lake Bodum area. Metal detectors were used and sniffer dogs 247 00:20:19.230 --> 00:20:23.150 were deployed, while divers searched the depths of the lake. 248 00:20:24.410 --> 00:20:27.890 Items as small as a piece of iron wire were collected. 249 00:20:27.910 --> 00:20:35.960 The weapons used in the attack were not located. About 250 00:20:35.960 --> 00:20:39.700 500 metres from the crime scene, just off the road 251 00:20:39.720 --> 00:20:43.220 that led to the campsite, a pair of worn brown 252 00:20:43.339 --> 00:20:48.210 leather slip-on loafers were found hidden under a rock. They 253 00:20:48.250 --> 00:20:52.049 were covered in flecks of blood and were identified as 254 00:20:52.130 --> 00:20:58.349 belonging to victim Nils Gustafsson. Several boysmen's shoes were also 255 00:20:58.509 --> 00:21:03.289 unearthed nearby, discarded more carelessly in the scrub on the 256 00:21:03.349 --> 00:21:08.420 other side of the road. an appeal was made to 257 00:21:08.519 --> 00:21:12.180 identify the man seen walking away from the campsite the 258 00:21:12.220 --> 00:21:18.670 morning the bodies were discovered. While this particular individual wasn't identified, 259 00:21:19.170 --> 00:21:24.190 sightings of other suspicious persons were called in. Given the 260 00:21:24.210 --> 00:21:28.660 brutality and shocking nature of the murders, the provincial government 261 00:21:28.839 --> 00:21:34.880 ordered police teams to apprehend all suspects immediately. Dozens of 262 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:39.640 people were brought into police stations across the county for interrogations. 263 00:21:40.759 --> 00:21:44.279 One man was arrested based on the suspicions of a bishop. 264 00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:49.019 A soldier was also detained after his parents tipped off 265 00:21:49.059 --> 00:21:56.920 the police. Both were eventually released. In one more promising lead, 266 00:21:57.289 --> 00:22:00.349 a man was arrested when a bloody knife was found 267 00:22:00.450 --> 00:22:05.660 in Bulldom Village, After tests proved that the blood didn't 268 00:22:05.720 --> 00:22:09.660 match any of the victim's blood types, he was let go. 269 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:15.500 A bearded, dirty man spotted hiding out in the Bodum 270 00:22:15.579 --> 00:22:19.920 forest area was found to be a fugitive named Pauly Luoma. 271 00:22:21.119 --> 00:22:25.589 Luoma had received a mandatory labour order, likely for vagrancy, 272 00:22:25.809 --> 00:22:29.569 which was then a crime in Finland, but had deserted 273 00:22:29.650 --> 00:22:36.339 his sentence. a large-scale manhunt began. The police managed to 274 00:22:36.420 --> 00:22:39.920 locate Luoma, but he was so drunk that they had 275 00:22:39.960 --> 00:22:42.880 to keep him in a holding cell overnight to sober 276 00:22:43.019 --> 00:22:48.220 up before they could interrogate him. When Luoma was interviewed 277 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:51.480 the next morning, he was able to name nearly a 278 00:22:51.599 --> 00:22:55.130 dozen witnesses who confirmed he had been in a hut 279 00:22:55.349 --> 00:23:00.869 outside of Helsinki at the time of the murders. Although 280 00:23:00.910 --> 00:23:05.900 the police investigation seemed to be stalling, locals were working 281 00:23:05.980 --> 00:23:14.940 on theories of their own. 51-year-old Carl Gilstrom ran the 282 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:18.250 kiosk near the southern part of the lake, where visitors 283 00:23:18.309 --> 00:23:23.190 often stopped for refreshments and supplies. He also lived in 284 00:23:23.250 --> 00:23:27.390 a house a short distance up the road. Gilstrom was 285 00:23:27.470 --> 00:23:30.289 of average height and had dark hair that he wore 286 00:23:30.410 --> 00:23:34.319 slicked back across his head. But the most notable thing 287 00:23:34.380 --> 00:23:39.359 about him was his temper. Although he could be friendly 288 00:23:39.420 --> 00:23:44.500 and polite, especially when authority figures were around, sometimes his 289 00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:49.240 mood would flick like a switch. Suddenly, he'd turn aggressive 290 00:23:49.319 --> 00:23:53.710 and cruel. Locals said that he hid razor blades in 291 00:23:53.730 --> 00:23:57.480 the apples that grew from his trees. to deter children 292 00:23:57.579 --> 00:24:02.000 from picking the fruit. A heavy drinker with a known 293 00:24:02.119 --> 00:24:05.799 hatred of the campers who stayed at the lake, Gilstrom 294 00:24:05.880 --> 00:24:11.000 was also prone to attacking others. A man who owned 295 00:24:11.140 --> 00:24:15.069 land near the lake once caught Gilstrom hunting illegally and 296 00:24:15.180 --> 00:24:20.009 asked him to leave. Gilstrom raised his shotgun, took aim, 297 00:24:20.430 -->

00:24:25.710 then fired at the man. He wasn't seriously hurt, but 298 00:24:25.730 --> 00:24:28.750 he had to have the shot pellets removed at a hospital. 299 00:24:30.670 --> 00:24:33.559 The road leading to his home seemed to be a 300 00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:38.660 particular fixation for Gilstrom. One time, a truck driver had 301 00:24:38.700 --> 00:24:42.160 been heading along the road only to hear a loud crack, 302 00:24:42.539 --> 00:24:47.839 followed by the shattering of glass. Sharp shards lodged in 303 00:24:47.880 --> 00:24:51.599 the driver's face and he realised that someone had shot 304 00:24:51.640 --> 00:24:56.640 at him, breaking one of the truck's windows. When Carl 305 00:24:56.700 --> 00:25:00.710 Gilstrom was found to be responsible, he claimed he'd only 306 00:25:00.869 --> 00:25:04.529 fired at the vehicle to discourage drivers from hooning down 307 00:25:04.569 --> 00:25:10.289 the road too fast. Sometimes, Gilstrom lined the road with 308 00:25:10.390 --> 00:25:15.769 makeshift spike strips consisting of wooden planks with nails jutting out. 309 00:25:17.369 --> 00:25:20.750 Gilstrom kept a length of iron pipe in his car 310 00:25:21.009 --> 00:25:24.049 and was known to carry a curved end hunting knife 311 00:25:24.150 --> 00:25:29.009 on his belt. He was also renowned for something else. 312 00:25:30.230 --> 00:25:32.950 He had a history of cutting the guy lines of 313 00:25:33.049 --> 00:25:40.990 campers' tents. When Nils Gustafsson, Seppo Boisman, Tuliki Maki and 314 00:25:41.170 --> 00:25:46.059 Irmeli Björklund arrived at Lake Budum on June 4, they 315 00:25:46.119 --> 00:25:52.829 headed to Gilstrom's kiosk shortly after choosing a campsite. Gilstrom's 316 00:25:52.930 --> 00:25:56.430 wife was working by herself behind the counter that day 317 00:25:56.769 --> 00:26:00.089 and served the four teens as they purchased soft drinks 318 00:26:00.190 --> 00:26:04.069 and chewing gum. They hung around the kiosk for a 319 00:26:04.109 --> 00:26:08.380 little while longer, chatting, laughing and enjoying ice cream in 320 00:26:08.410 --> 00:26:13.619 the sun. Afterwards, they took off on their motorbikes back 321 00:26:13.680 --> 00:26:18.299 down the road towards their campsite, passing Gilstrom's home along 322 00:26:18.339 --> 00:26:23.869 the way. Gilstrom's wife closed the kiosk at around 9 323 00:26:23.869 --> 00:26:27.549 that night and later told her husband about the four 324 00:26:27.609 --> 00:26:34.869 teenagers camping nearby. As investigators examined the grisly crime scene 325 00:26:34.910 --> 00:26:38.880 the next morning, one onlooker rushed to the kiosk to 326 00:26:38.950 --> 00:26:44.779 inform Gilstrom of the terrible crime. To his surprise, Gilstrom 327 00:26:44.859 --> 00:26:49.380 took the information in his stride. In fact, he seemed 328 00:26:49.599 --> 00:26:56.519 utterly nonchalant. Not long after the murders, locals learned that 329 00:26:56.599 --> 00:27:00.279 Gilstrom had filled in a well located on his property. 330 00:27:01.859 --> 00:27:05.869 Aware of his violent temper and dislike of campers, some 331 00:27:05.940 --> 00:27:09.829 speculated that Gilstrom was the killer and had disposed of 332 00:27:09.890 --> 00:27:13.950 the murder weapons and or the teenager's missing belongings down 333 00:27:13.990 --> 00:27:19.099 the well. Their suspicions were strengthened by the discovery of 334 00:27:19.220 --> 00:27:23.220 Neil's and Seppo's shoes along the road that led to 335 00:27:23.289 --> 00:27:31.369 Gilstrom's house. Investigators eventually interviewed Gilstrom and his wife. Both 336 00:27:31.509 --> 00:27:34.369 said that he was at home asleep on the evening 337 00:27:34.410 --> 00:27:39.630 in question. Gilstrom's wife explained that she and the children 338 00:27:39.750 --> 00:27:43.410 slept in the bedroom while Gilstrom slept in the kitchen together. 339 00:27:43.880 --> 00:27:46.900 but the door between the two rooms was kept open 340 00:27:47.380 --> 00:27:52.529 and her husband never left the house. Police searched the 341 00:27:52.569 --> 00:27:58.569 Gilstrom premises, though nothing of significance was uncovered. Yet, many 342 00:27:58.650 --> 00:28:02.460 locals felt that the police search was far from exhaustive. 343 00:28:03.359 --> 00:28:13.000 They hadn't even examined the filled-in wells. At 10.45pm the 344 00:28:13.059 --> 00:28:17.690 day after the murders, an ambulance arrived at Helsinki Surgical 345 00:28:17.750 --> 00:28:23.869 Hospital with an unconscious adult inside. The patient, a German-born 346 00:28:23.910 --> 00:28:27.690 man by the name of Hans Asman, was wearing dirty 347 00:28:27.829 --> 00:28:32.960 overalls covered in red stains. The same stains could be 348 00:28:33.019 --> 00:28:37.720 seen all over his hands. According to his wife who 349 00:28:37.779 --> 00:28:41.700 had accompanied him, Asman had collapsed as a result of 350 00:28:41.819 --> 00:28:46.599 severe stomach pains. When the doctor poked him during a 351 00:28:46.660 --> 00:28:54.220 responsiveness test, Asman giggled. Apparently, he had been faking his unconsciousness. 352 00:28:55.970 --> 00:29:02.329 After Asman's ruse was discovered, he exhibited no remorse or shame. Instead, 353 00:29:02.730 --> 00:29:06.390 he began threatening hospital staff and demanding that he be 354 00:29:06.470 --> 00:29:12.529 treated right away. A medical intern was struck by Asman's 355 00:29:12.630 --> 00:29:16.119 strange behaviour and kept a close eye on him during 356 00:29:16.170 --> 00:29:21.039 his stay. At one stage, Asman was visited by a 357 00:29:21.119 --> 00:29:25.140 woman who was not his wife. The pair spoke at 358 00:29:25.240 --> 00:29:31.599 length in hushed tones. Asman also spent hours vigorously washing 359 00:29:31.660 --> 00:29:35.180 his hands with paint thinner to remove the red stains. 360 00:29:37.250 --> 00:29:40.779 According to Asman's own claims, he had been a Nazi 361 00:29:40.819 --> 00:29:45.019 prison guard

at Auschwitz during World War II, before being 362 00:29:45.079 --> 00:29:50.740 captured in 1943 by the Russians. After two years in 363 00:29:50.779 --> 00:29:54.809 a prisoner of war camp, he supposedly switched sides to 364 00:29:54.849 --> 00:30:01.940 join the Soviet Union's security agency, the KGB. Asman remained 365 00:30:01.980 --> 00:30:06.420 in hospital for several days, but that wasn't the last 366 00:30:06.440 --> 00:30:11.160 the staff saw of him. After he was discharged, he 367 00:30:11.240 --> 00:30:16.750 returned numerous times for further treatment. On one occasion, he 368 00:30:16.809 --> 00:30:21.130 showed a doctor a German magazine article about an unsolved murder. 369 00:30:22.470 --> 00:30:25.750 Another time, he joked to one of the surgeons that 370 00:30:25.950 --> 00:30:29.869 he too was skilled with a knife. But, unlike the 371 00:30:29.940 --> 00:30:33.849 surgeon's patients, those on the other end of Asman's knife 372 00:30:34.309 --> 00:30:40.529 never survived. By July, the doctors at the hospital had 373 00:30:40.589 --> 00:30:44.390 grown so suspicious of Hans Asman that they reported him 374 00:30:44.470 --> 00:30:49.720 to the police. The medical intern that initially treated Asman 375 00:30:49.859 --> 00:30:53.380 had been so convinced that the man was somehow connected 376 00:30:53.480 --> 00:30:56.539 to the Lake Buldum murders that that he'd bagged his 377 00:30:56.579 --> 00:31:01.619 stained overalls so that police could analyse them. Yet, the 378 00:31:01.680 --> 00:31:08.000 authorities didn't seem to share their concerns. There was one 379 00:31:08.059 --> 00:31:11.380 other thing that further convinced the hospital staff they were 380 00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:16.079 right about Hans Asman. A month after the crimes, a 381 00:31:16.140 --> 00:31:20.089 composite sketch of the Lake Boulda murders suspect was released. 382 00:31:21.569 --> 00:31:25.079 It depicted a man with large eyes, a straight nose 383 00:31:25.319 --> 00:31:30.380 and thick lips. He had long pale hair combed backward. 384 00:31:31.220 --> 00:31:34.359 His face was round, but he had a strong jaw 385 00:31:34.579 --> 00:31:38.509 and slightly protruding red cheeks that were dotted with pimples. 386 00:31:39.829 --> 00:31:43.410 The man's forehead was high and was also pimply with 387 00:31:43.509 --> 00:31:50.039 uneven horizontal wrinkles. To hospital staff, the sketch looked remarkably 388 00:31:50.119 --> 00:31:56.460 like Hans Asman. When the sketch was made public, about 389 00:31:56.460 --> 00:32:01.349 50 tips were received as a result. 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Thank you for listening to this episode's ads. 423 00:34:30.329 --> 00:34:34.210 By supporting our sponsors, you support Casefile to continue to 424 00:34:34.250 --> 00:34:46.630 deliver quality content. On Thursday, June 9, 1960, four days 425 00:34:46.809 --> 00:34:50.889 after the Lake Bulldom murders, Nils Gustafsson woke with a 426 00:34:50.949 -->

00:34:57.289 pounding headache. Strange faint noises accompanied each thump to his brain, 427 00:34:57.849 --> 00:35:02.599 leading the 18-year-old to wonder where he was. He tried 428 00:35:02.639 --> 00:35:06.139 to look and see, but struggled to bring his surroundings 429 00:35:06.219 --> 00:35:11.360 into focus. The problem was his left eye. It was 430 00:35:11.440 --> 00:35:17.250 almost swollen shut. Eventually, he managed to force his eyes open, 431 00:35:18.619 --> 00:35:22.269 The room took shape and Nils realised that he was 432 00:35:22.349 --> 00:35:26.630 lying in a hospital bed. He saw his mother by 433 00:35:26.690 --> 00:35:29.909 his side and an unfamiliar man who looked to be 434 00:35:29.969 --> 00:35:35.250 a doctor. Nils tried to speak but found it difficult 435 00:35:35.289 --> 00:35:39.760 to move his mouth. He strained his eyes downward and 436 00:35:39.840 --> 00:35:43.400 saw bandages and a brace of some kind wrapped around 437 00:35:43.460 --> 00:35:49.110 his jaw. With great effort, He carefully opened his mouth 438 00:35:49.360 --> 00:35:51.409 and asked his mother if he had been in a 439 00:35:51.449 --> 00:35:59.010 motorcycle accident. She hesitated to answer. Nils racked his brain, 440 00:35:59.349 --> 00:36:03.809 trying to remember what had happened. He recalled being at 441 00:36:03.909 --> 00:36:07.900 Lake Budum with his friends Seppo and Tuliki and his 442 00:36:07.940 --> 00:36:12.559 girlfriend Irmeli. They all went to sleep in their shared 443 00:36:12.699 --> 00:36:18.699 tent sometime after sunset. Before dawn, Seppl headed off alone 444 00:36:18.739 --> 00:36:22.179 to go fishing, only to return a short while later 445 00:36:22.260 --> 00:36:26.980 without a catch. He resettled in the tent, and all 446 00:36:27.079 --> 00:36:31.630 four of them went back asleep. Try as he might, 447 00:36:32.210 --> 00:36:38.889 Nils could not remember anything that happened thereafter. When police 448 00:36:38.929 --> 00:36:42.429 arrived at the Lake Bouldam crime scene, they found Nils 449 00:36:42.489 --> 00:36:46.320 Gustafsson lying on top of the tent, slightly apart from 450 00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:52.269 his companions. Unlike the others, Nils was clearly alive, though 451 00:36:52.389 --> 00:36:58.070 barely conscious. He'd sustained a number of head injuries, but 452 00:36:58.210 --> 00:37:02.719 none were life-threatening. The left side of his face was 453 00:37:02.840 --> 00:37:07.340 swollen and beaten. He had been badly cut along his 454 00:37:07.420 --> 00:37:10.440 left cheek, and there was a two-inch cut on the 455 00:37:10.500 --> 00:37:15.860 back of his left forearm. A police officer peppered Nils 456 00:37:15.900 --> 00:37:19.199 with questions as he was rushed to hospital, but only 457 00:37:19.239 --> 00:37:25.219 received a series of unintelligible noises in response. The questions 458 00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:30.630 continued as physicians worked to stitch up Nils' wounds. How 459 00:37:30.690 -->

00:37:34.030 was he able to survive the attack? Had he somehow 460 00:37:34.090 --> 00:37:36.889 managed to squeeze out of one of the gaping slashes 461 00:37:36.969 --> 00:37:41.349 in the tent? Perhaps he tried to escape or fight back. 462 00:37:43.420 --> 00:37:45.980 It was also possible that the two boys who had 463 00:37:46.059 --> 00:37:49.780 stumbled across the crime scene early that morning had disturbed 464 00:37:49.800 --> 00:37:54.119 the attacker, maybe just before Nils was about to receive 465 00:37:54.179 --> 00:37:59.719 a fatal blow. Police were hopeful that the sole survivor 466 00:37:59.780 --> 00:38:02.929 of the brutal attack could provide them with some answers, 467 00:38:04.090 --> 00:38:12.989 but Nils only responded with the occasional faint moan. Nils 468 00:38:13.070 --> 00:38:16.900 was monitored in the traumatology ward for two days before 469 00:38:16.940 --> 00:38:22.159 being transferred to the hospital's neurosurgical wing. It wasn't until 470 00:38:22.239 --> 00:38:26.010 June 9, four days after the attack, that he regained 471 00:38:26.110 --> 00:38:31.269 full consciousness. One of his first requests was to see 472 00:38:31.329 --> 00:38:37.159 his best friend, Seppo. Despite some slight swelling that remained 473 00:38:37.219 --> 00:38:40.500 on the left side of his face, The doctors determined 474 00:38:40.599 --> 00:38:44.000 that Nils was well enough to be discharged on June 23. 475 00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:50.110 The police didn't waste any time. At noon that day, 476 00:38:50.489 --> 00:38:53.190 they ushered Nils out a back exit to avoid the 477 00:38:53.250 --> 00:38:57.670 crowds of reporters lingering outside the hospital. He was then 478 00:38:57.730 --> 00:39:02.619 driven to the police station and, once settled, began his story. 479 00:39:05.110 --> 00:39:08.849 After he and Seppo set up the tent between 7.30 480 00:39:08.849 --> 00:39:12.210 and 8 on the evening of Saturday June 4, the 481 00:39:12.250 --> 00:39:16.329 girls went swimming in the lake. The boys remained at 482 00:39:16.369 --> 00:39:20.420 the campsite, sharing a lager and fashioning fishing rods out 483 00:39:20.460 --> 00:39:24.940 of birch branches. They also mixed some liquor with the 484 00:39:25.019 --> 00:39:28.900 soda but didn't finish it because it didn't taste very nice. 485 00:39:30.210 --> 00:39:33.809 When the girls returned from their swim, they declined to 486 00:39:33.849 --> 00:39:40.139 have a drink. After the sunset at about 9.30pm, Nils 487 00:39:40.219 --> 00:39:44.679 and Irmeli kissed and cuddled for a little while. About 488 00:39:44.719 --> 00:39:49.699 an hour later, they decided to go to sleep. Somehow, 489 00:39:49.980 --> 00:39:52.900 the group of four managed to squeeze into the tent's 490 00:39:53.059 --> 00:39:58.070 small confines. Tuliki took position on the far right of 491 00:39:58.110 --> 00:40:01.179 the tent, facing inwards with her back to the wall. 492 00:40:02.699 --> 00:40:08.510 Sepo was

next in line, facing Tuliki. Irmeli lay on 493 00:40:08.550 --> 00:40:12.070 the tent's left side, also with her back to the wall. 494 00:40:13.469 --> 00:40:17.380 Nils entered last and zipped up the tent door. then 495 00:40:17.420 --> 00:40:22.440 lay down on his right side facing Irmeli. He used 496 00:40:22.500 --> 00:40:28.460 his leather jacket as a makeshift pillow. Hours later, Nils 497 00:40:28.559 --> 00:40:31.219 woke to the sound of Seppl rustling in the tent 498 00:40:31.280 --> 00:40:36.159 for his fishing tackle. The sun hadn't yet risen, and 499 00:40:36.280 --> 00:40:41.610 Nils estimated it was just before 3am. He felt like 500 00:40:41.750 --> 00:40:45.090 going for a swim, so he joined Seppl while the 501 00:40:45.130 --> 00:40:49.809 girls continued to sleep Once they were down at the lake, 502 00:40:50.320 --> 00:40:54.360 Seppl perched himself on a rock while Nils tested the water. 503 00:40:55.760 --> 00:40:59.039 It was too cold, so he left Seppl fishing and 504 00:40:59.119 --> 00:41:03.750 wandered back to the tent. The girls were still inside, 505 00:41:04.050 --> 00:41:09.030 but were now awake. A little while later, Seppl returned 506 00:41:09.110 --> 00:41:13.889 as well, having had no luck fishing. All four then 507 00:41:14.010 --> 00:41:20.380 went back to sleep. So far, Nils' story made sense. 508 00:41:21.739 --> 00:41:25.139 Toolicky's red songbook that had been found at the crime 509 00:41:25.179 --> 00:41:29.750 scene had contained a diary-style entry that corroborated his version 510 00:41:29.789 --> 00:41:34.489 of events. The entry referred to the excursion to Lake 511 00:41:34.550 --> 00:41:40.250 Bouldum and contained three brief lines. The first read, Seppo 512 00:41:40.309 --> 00:41:44.190 and Nils were drunk. The second, that they were up 513 00:41:44.289 --> 00:41:48.860 at 2 a.m. and the third, that Seppo, was in 514 00:41:48.900 --> 00:41:55.949 the woods. The police urged Nils to continue, but Nils 515 00:41:56.030 --> 00:41:58.989 said the next thing he remembered was waking up in 516 00:41:59.030 --> 00:42:05.090 the hospital. Investigators were dismayed to hear that he had 517 00:42:05.190 --> 00:42:09.500 no recollection of the attack. They were certain he held 518 00:42:09.559 --> 00:42:15.550 the key to solving the case. Despite continued prodding, Nils 519 00:42:15.619 --> 00:42:26.690 was insistent. He remembered nothing else. Investigators escorted Nils back 520 00:42:26.730 --> 00:42:29.610 to Lake Bouldum in the hopes that visiting the crime 521 00:42:29.650 --> 00:42:34.989 scene would prompt a repressed memory to resurface. The visit 522 00:42:35.130 --> 00:42:40.989 didn't seem to provoke anything new in Nils' mind. There was, however, 523 00:42:41.269 --> 00:42:43.489 one other option that could be explored. 524 00:42:45.690 --> 00:42:46.070 Dr. 525 00:42:46.269 --> 00:42:50.269 Asa Stenbeck, a professor of psychiatry who lectured at the 526 00:42:50.349 --> 00:42:55.780 University of Helsinki, believed he could access Nils' repressed memories 527 00:42:55.969 --> 00:43:02.179 through hypnosis. After having previously attended a short course on 528 00:43:02.219 --> 00:43:07.800 psychotherapy and having had some success with other patients, Dr. 529 00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:13.070 Stenbeck felt he was capable enough for the task. In 530 00:43:13.110 --> 00:43:17.190 the month after the murders occurred, Dr. Stenbeck conducted three 531 00:43:17.269 --> 00:43:24.230 hypnotherapy sessions with Nils, each lasting around 30 minutes. Nils 532 00:43:24.389 --> 00:43:30.489 shared no new information in the first two. During the third, Dr. 533 00:43:30.550 --> 00:43:34.920 Stenbeck asked the hypnotised Nils if he'd heard any screams 534 00:43:35.019 --> 00:43:40.739 that night. Nils replied that he'd faintly heard the girls screaming, 535 00:43:41.320 --> 00:43:47.059 crying out that someone had attacked them. Dr. Stenbeck asked 536 00:43:47.199 --> 00:43:51.769 Nils what he then saw. Nils said that the roof 537 00:43:51.809 --> 00:43:54.789 of the tent was on top of them. A man 538 00:43:54.889 --> 00:43:58.349 started hitting them with a sharp weapon, maybe a knife, 539 00:43:58.789 --> 00:44:01.690 and also a hard weapon, like an iron pipe. 540 00:44:03.670 --> 00:44:04.010 Dr. 541 00:44:04.050 --> 00:44:09.440 Stenbeck asked if Nils had seen the man before. Nils 542 00:44:09.739 --> 00:44:16.530 didn't know. Then he described seeing blood all over Irmeli's head. 543 00:44:18.550 --> 00:44:23.150 Look closely, do you see the man now? asked Dr Stenbeck. 544 00:44:24.510 --> 00:44:29.570 Nils replied that yes, he could see. He described a 545 00:44:29.610 --> 00:44:33.409 man who was about 30 years old with long fair hair. 546 00:44:34.860 --> 00:44:39.070 His face was round and pimply. The man was of 547 00:44:39.230 --> 00:44:42.969 average height and size, but looked strong, as though his 548 00:44:43.050 --> 00:44:48.659 work involved heavy labour. He wore a thick, dark plaid sweater, 549 00:44:49.039 --> 00:44:54.099 with green and black present in the pattern. A sketch 550 00:44:54.159 --> 00:44:58.190 of the man Nils described was widely circulated, and by 551 00:44:58.230 --> 00:45:01.929 the second month of the investigation, nine men had been 552 00:45:01.969 --> 00:45:07.960 arrested on suspicion of being the perpetrator. Each was subjected 553 00:45:08.039 --> 00:45:12.639 to intense interrogations, but all had solid alibis and were 554 00:45:12.699 --> 00:45:19.210 ruled out. As were friends, family and acquaintances of the victims. 555 00:45:21.710 --> 00:45:26.210 The summer of 1960 soon turned to autumn, and the 556 00:45:26.269 --> 00:45:30.420 newspapers were no longer filled with near-daily articles on the 557 00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:37.460 Lake Bouldam murders. Eventually, Snow replaced the fallen leaves, and 558 00:45:37.539 --> 00:45:47.019 as the air turned cold, so did the case. Years 559 00:45:47.239

--> 00:45:53.269 then decades passed with no new viable leads. Police continued 560 00:45:53.349 --> 00:45:57.050 combing through tip-offs from the public, yet they seemed to 561 00:45:57.090 --> 00:46:01.650 become more and more outlandish as time went on. it 562 00:46:01.730 --> 00:46:07.010 wasn't until 2003 that the case's new lead investigator decided 563 00:46:07.050 --> 00:46:11.329 to utilise advances in DNA technology in the hopes to 564 00:46:11.429 --> 00:46:19.460 uncover previously undetectable evidence. Seppo, Tuuliki and Irmeli's remains were 565 00:46:19.539 --> 00:46:25.159 exhumed for additional forensic examination, though failed to reveal anything 566 00:46:25.260 --> 00:46:31.829 of significance. However, The preliminary DNA testing of several key 567 00:46:31.929 --> 00:46:36.489 items from the crime scene, including the tent, did yield 568 00:46:36.639 --> 00:46:41.820 new information. It was enough for investigators to narrow in 569 00:46:41.940 --> 00:46:48.719 on a suspect. Finally, almost 44 years after the murders, 570 00:46:49.119 --> 00:46:52.420 police released a statement that a person of interest in 571 00:46:52.460 --> 00:46:57.530 the Lake Bouldam murders had been detained. By this point, 572 00:46:57.909 --> 00:47:01.610 The suspect was a semi-retired bus driver aged in his 573 00:47:01.730 --> 00:47:07.309 early 60s. But in 1960, he was an 18-year-old who 574 00:47:07.369 --> 00:47:12.679 lived in the metropolitan area. Police interviewed him nearly a 575 00:47:12.780 --> 00:47:18.760 dozen times throughout March 2004 before arresting him on the 29th. 576 00:47:20.440 --> 00:47:23.619 To the shock of many, the man they had arrested 577 00:47:23.929 --> 00:47:32.889 was sole survivor Nils Gustafsson. The police alleged that Nils 578 00:47:32.949 --> 00:47:36.639 had been intoxicated on the night of the murders. He 579 00:47:36.679 --> 00:47:40.280 had packed a condom for the trip and investigators believed 580 00:47:40.360 --> 00:47:44.920 he had intended to use it until Irmeli rejected his advances. 581 00:47:46.639 --> 00:47:49.380 Seppo was then forced to step up in order to 582 00:47:49.420 --> 00:47:53.909 protect the girls from an angry Nils. Their argument escalated, 583 00:47:54.289 --> 00:47:59.889 culminating in Nils being banished from the tent. Fueled by alcohol, 584 00:48:00.070 --> 00:48:04.369 resentment and adrenaline, Nils then waited for his three friends 585 00:48:04.449 --> 00:48:07.969 to fall asleep before cutting the tent's guy lines to 586 00:48:08.030 --> 00:48:14.360 trap them inside. Then, knowing Seppo's position inside the tent, 587 00:48:14.820 --> 00:48:19.460 Nils began to attack him with a rock. Seppo defended 588 00:48:19.500 --> 00:48:23.000 himself by kicking Nils in the chin, causing his jaw 589 00:48:23.039 --> 00:48:28.239 to break. Further enraged by this injury, Nils took out 590 00:48:28.280 --> 00:48:31.500 his knife and stabbed Seppo in the chest and neck. 591 00:48:33.010 --> 00:48:36.130 By this time, the girls had woken in a panic. 592 00:48:37.550 --> 00:48:41.429 As Tuliki tried to escape the confines of the fallen tent, 593 00:48:41.909 --> 00:48:44.710 Nils beat her in the head with the rock until 594 00:48:44.769 --> 00:48:49.280 she was no longer moving. Then he focused his attention 595 00:48:49.360 --> 00:48:53.699 on the true object of his rage, his girlfriend Irmeli. 596 00:48:57.010 --> 00:49:01.250 Before Irmeli could escape the tent, Nils smashed the rock 597 00:49:01.289 --> 00:49:04.769 down on her head, then stabbed her 15 times in 598 00:49:04.789 --> 00:49:09.239 the neck and shoulders. At some point during the attack, 599 00:49:09.679 --> 00:49:12.699 Nils sustained a deep gash to his arm and the 600 00:49:12.760 --> 00:49:17.820 side of his face. With each of his friends now dead, 601 00:49:18.400 --> 00:49:22.429 Nils got to work. First he gathered up all the 602 00:49:22.489 --> 00:49:26.389 wallets and IDs and other items of some value, such 603 00:49:26.489 --> 00:49:30.070 as the keys to the motorcycles and Seppo's leather jacket 604 00:49:30.139 --> 00:49:34.420 and shoes. Then he disposed of them, either by digging 605 00:49:34.500 --> 00:49:37.420 a hole somewhere in the forest or throwing them into 606 00:49:37.460 --> 00:49:42.550 the lake. far from where the slaughter took place. Nils 607 00:49:42.630 --> 00:49:46.199 tossed Sepo's shoes into the forest scrub just off the 608 00:49:46.260 --> 00:49:50.480 road to the kiosk. He then carefully concealed his own 609 00:49:50.599 --> 00:49:53.880 blood-spattered shoes under a rock on the other side of 610 00:49:53.920 --> 00:49:58.969 the road. The man seen leaving the campsite early in 611 00:49:59.010 --> 00:50:04.469 the morning was, in fact, Nils. After disposing of everything, 612 00:50:04.940 --> 00:50:09.320 Nils returned to the campsite to continue his forensic countermeasures. 613 00:50:10.400 --> 00:50:13.510 He slashed the tent's canvas to give the impression of 614 00:50:13.570 --> 00:50:17.670 a more frenzied attack. Then, in either a final show 615 00:50:17.710 --> 00:50:20.949 of contempt or to fool the police into thinking the 616 00:50:20.989 --> 00:50:25.980 murders were sexually motivated, he stripped Irmeli naked from the 617 00:50:26.019 --> 00:50:32.010 waist down. His staging of the crime scene complete, Nils 618 00:50:32.170 --> 00:50:35.820 settled down on top of his murdered friends and waited 619 00:50:35.880 --> 00:50:43.699 to be discovered. The year Nils Gustafsson was arrested for 620 00:50:43.739 --> 00:50:48.639 the Lake Buldum murders, a 61-year-old woman named Tarja fronted 621 00:50:48.679 --> 00:50:51.699 a television crew to break an oath she had held 622 00:50:51.840 --> 00:50:57.219 since 1960. Tarja revealed that she had been at Lake 623 00:50:57.300 --> 00:51:01.880 Buldum the night Nils and his group were present. 17 624 00:51:01.880 --> 00:51:05.179 years old at the time, Tarja

had been camping with 625 00:51:05.300 --> 00:51:07.820 friends at a public site on the shores of the 626 00:51:07.889 --> 00:51:12.769 lake when Nils and his group appeared. Nils was drunk 627 00:51:13.070 --> 00:51:17.469 and Tarja recalled a growing animosity between him and his companions. 628 00:51:18.650 --> 00:51:21.929 As to why she never told police of this key sighting, 629 00:51:22.380 --> 00:51:25.840 Tarja claimed she had been sworn to secrecy by her 630 00:51:25.880 --> 00:51:32.309 group of friends. While damning, Tardia's story didn't add up. 631 00:51:33.610 --> 00:51:36.449 She couldn't remember the names of the friends she was 632 00:51:36.510 --> 00:51:40.190 with that night other than one who was already deceased. 633 00:51:41.349 --> 00:51:44.429 The public campsite where she said Nils and the others 634 00:51:44.500 --> 00:51:49.619 had arrived didn't exist. She also claimed she was amongst 635 00:51:49.679 --> 00:51:52.840 the crowd when the injured Nils was stretched away from 636 00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:58.860 the collapsed tent, adding that there were no police officers present. However, 637 00:51:59.389 --> 00:52:01.869 One of the people who helped carry Nils was a 638 00:52:01.909 --> 00:52:08.800 police officer in full uniform. Tarja also couldn't describe anything 639 00:52:08.900 --> 00:52:15.599 about Nils, Seppo, Tuliki or Irmeli from 1960, including basic 640 00:52:15.739 --> 00:52:21.980 physical characteristics like their hair colour. Nils himself denied ever 641 00:52:22.079 --> 00:52:25.920 seeing Tarja that night and rejected claims that there was 642 00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:31.250 tension between his group during their trip. Tuleki's writings in 643 00:52:31.309 --> 00:52:36.329 her songbook supported his assertions. She had made no reference 644 00:52:36.409 --> 00:52:42.739 to an argument. Despite this, Tardia's recollections played a large 645 00:52:42.820 --> 00:52:47.920 part in the prosecution's case when 62-year-old Nils Gustafsson faced 646 00:52:48.059 --> 00:52:52.239 trial for the murders of Seppur boysmen Tuleki Mäki and 647 00:52:52.400 --> 00:52:58.920 Irmeli Björklund in August 2005. as did a confession Nils 648 00:52:58.960 --> 00:53:04.079 had allegedly made while in custody awaiting trial. A police 649 00:53:04.119 --> 00:53:08.329 officer observed a seemingly frustrated Nils throw himself on the 650 00:53:08.389 --> 00:53:12.909 bed in his cell and exclaim, What's done is done. 651 00:53:13.710 --> 00:53:18.219 I'll get 15 years for it. Yet, there was no 652 00:53:18.300 --> 00:53:22.900 official record of this confession, and Nils himself denied making 653 00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:26.590 the statement. He claimed that if he had ever said 654 00:53:26.690 --> 00:53:29.929 words to that effect, he would have just been venting 655 00:53:30.070 --> 00:53:40.460 about the situation he found himself in. Thank you for 656 00:53:40.500 --> 00:53:53.590 listening to this episode's ads. By supporting

our sponsors, you 657 00:53:53.650 --> 00:54:04.650 support Casefile to continue to deliver quality content. The defence's 658 00:54:04.730 --> 00:54:08.380 interpretation of the crime scene was vastly different to that 659 00:54:08.409 --> 00:54:12.599 of police. As blood spatter was only found on the 660 00:54:12.699 --> 00:54:17.639 exterior of Nils' shoes, investigators took this to assume he 661 00:54:17.679 --> 00:54:19.980 must have been wearing them when he went on his 662 00:54:20.039 --> 00:54:25.269 violent rampage. Yet, analysis showed that the blood on the 663 00:54:25.309 --> 00:54:29.619 shoes matched spatter found at the tent's entrance, meaning they 664 00:54:29.639 --> 00:54:33.840 were by the door during the attack. Something else might 665 00:54:33.860 --> 00:54:37.900 have been blocking the insoles, such as clothing or tent fabric. 666 00:54:39.380 --> 00:54:42.489 The defence pointed out that it was unlikely Nils had 667 00:54:42.550 --> 00:54:46.469 walked 500 metres barefoot or in his socks back to 668 00:54:46.510 --> 00:54:50.920 the tent after hiding his shoes. Both his feet and 669 00:54:51.079 --> 00:54:57.480 socks were clean. In a macabre display, the tent that 670 00:54:57.519 --> 00:55:00.579 the three victims had been slain in was displayed in 671 00:55:00.619 --> 00:55:04.829 the middle of the courtroom. Held up in place with string, 672 00:55:05.289 --> 00:55:09.630 the filthy yellowed canvas showed huge slash marks and was 673 00:55:09.690 --> 00:55:15.070 stained with blood. The prosecution stated that Nils had cut 674 00:55:15.170 --> 00:55:19.519 up the tent after the murders to embellish the attack. Yet, 675 00:55:19.960 --> 00:55:26.199 blood spatter once again suggested a different scenario. Analysis showed 676 00:55:26.440 --> 00:55:32.409 they were made beforehand. Furthermore, seven of Sepo's stab wounds 677 00:55:32.550 --> 00:55:37.409 were found to have been made through the tent. Only 678 00:55:37.429 --> 00:55:40.550 the blood belonging to the four teens was present on 679 00:55:40.590 --> 00:55:45.050 the tent, leading investigators to conclude that no other party 680 00:55:45.130 --> 00:55:51.750 was involved. However, only 20 samples taken from 11 locations 681 00:55:51.909 --> 00:55:56.909 had been tested. Therefore, it was not possible to conclusively 682 00:55:56.969 --> 00:56:03.349 determine that a fifth person's DNA was not present somewhere else. Additionally, 683 00:56:03.849 --> 00:56:07.489 many of the samples tested failed to yield any DNA 684 00:56:07.550 --> 00:56:11.099 information given the degradation of the evidence over 45 years. 685 00:56:13.869 --> 00:56:18.230 Tests did reveal that Nils Gustafsson's blood was present in 686 00:56:18.250 --> 00:56:21.710 the exact spot where he claimed to have been sleeping. 687 00:56:24.909 --> 00:56:29.309 During the trial, a disagreement arose between the testimony provided 688 00:56:29.389 --> 00:56:34.980 by neurology experts. Those speaking on behalf of the prosecution 689 00:56:35.099 --> 00:56:38.920 claimed Nils had suffered nothing more than a mild concussion, 690 00:56:39.460 --> 00:56:42.599 meaning he could have easily doctored the crime scene after 691 00:56:42.639 --> 00:56:46.989 the murders. and that his claims of memory loss were unlikely. 692 00:56:48.289 --> 00:56:52.800 In contrast, experts for the defence stated that while Nils' 693 00:56:52.860 --> 00:56:58.340 injuries were not life-threatening, they were not minor either. He 694 00:56:58.420 --> 00:57:02.039 struggled with balance in the weeks after the attack, during 695 00:57:02.099 --> 00:57:07.570 which time he was unable to walk unaided. They concluded 696 00:57:07.670 --> 00:57:13.090 that Nils unquestionably received significant head trauma capable of causing 697 00:57:13.150 --> 00:57:20.159 brain injury and memory loss. The trial of Nils Gustafsson 698 00:57:20.239 --> 00:57:24.460 for the murders of Seppo Boisman, Tuliki Maki and Irmeli 699 00:57:24.519 --> 00:57:31.530 Björklund concluded in October 2005. The panel of six district 700 00:57:31.570 --> 00:57:35.869 court judges retired to consider their verdict. while Nils awaited 701 00:57:35.929 --> 00:57:40.880 his fate. Days later, Nils was sitting at home when 702 00:57:40.920 --> 00:57:44.559 he received a phone call from his lawyer. He had 703 00:57:44.599 --> 00:57:50.510 been acquitted. The lack of motive and the fact that 704 00:57:50.590 --> 00:57:54.570 witnesses had seen another unknown man leaving the crime scene 705 00:57:54.929 --> 00:57:59.929 convinced all of the judges that Nils was innocent. Moreover, 706 00:58:00.409 --> 00:58:04.019 The blood evidence confirmed that Nils was inside the tent 707 00:58:04.079 --> 00:58:07.920 when the attack occurred and his injuries would have prevented 708 00:58:07.980 --> 00:58:12.960 him from hiding the missing items. After the verdict was 709 00:58:13.019 --> 00:58:17.409 handed down, the prosecution had seven days in which to appeal. 710 00:58:18.860 --> 00:58:24.269 They declined to do so and on October 14 2005, 711 00:58:24.269 --> 00:58:32.869 Nils Gustafsson's innocence was final. With the sole survivor of 712 00:58:32.929 --> 00:58:37.409 the attack at Lake Bulldom officially cleared, the crucial question 713 00:58:37.489 --> 00:58:41.889 still remained. Who was responsible for one of Finland's most 714 00:58:41.969 --> 00:58:48.199 notorious unsolved crimes? For many armchair detectives, there was still 715 00:58:48.239 --> 00:58:52.800 a question mark around one of the earliest suspects, Carl Gilstrom, 716 00:58:53.260 --> 00:58:57.300 dubbed the Kiosk Man because he ran Lake Bulldom's kiosk. 717 00:58:59.159 --> 00:59:03.760 From the outset, Gilstrom's violent temper and attacks against people 718 00:59:03.820 --> 00:59:07.269 passing through the area had made him highly suspicious to 719 00:59:07.329 --> 00:59:11.119 many in the local community. even though he didn't really 720

00:59:11.199 --> 00:59:16.800 resemble the police sketch of the suspect. One individual convinced 721 00:59:16.880 --> 00:59:22.150 of Gilstrom's guilt was Ulf Johansen. Ulf was 18 years 722 00:59:22.329 --> 00:59:25.030 old at the time of the murders and had visited 723 00:59:25.070 --> 00:59:29.420 the lake the very same day. As a young man 724 00:59:29.539 --> 00:59:32.579 who was around the same age as the victims, and 725 00:59:32.639 --> 00:59:35.679 who always saw Lake Bodum as a safe place to 726 00:59:35.719 --> 00:59:40.760 spend time with friends, Ulf had been horrified by the slayings. 727 00:59:42.369 --> 00:59:45.510 He'd also had his own run-in with Carl Gilstrom on 728 00:59:45.550 --> 00:59:50.070 the road leading by the man's house. Ulf was cycling 729 00:59:50.150 --> 00:59:55.599 along when Gilstrom threw rocks at him. Ulf grew up 730 00:59:55.679 --> 01:00:00.559 to become a local politician. and in 2016, he published 731 01:00:00.599 --> 01:00:03.900 a book about the case titled The Legend of Bulldom. 732 01:00:04.980 --> 01:00:08.139 In it, he collated many of the clues that pointed 733 01:00:08.199 --> 01:00:11.860 to Gilstrom, including his habit of cutting the guy lines 734 01:00:11.920 --> 01:00:19.260 of campers' tents. This idiosyncrasy was particularly troubling, given whoever 735 01:00:19.300 --> 01:00:23.260 had attacked the four teenagers used this exact method to 736 01:00:23.320 --> 01:00:31.000 catch his victims unawares. Sometime in the late 1960s, Gilstrom's 737 01:00:31.079 --> 01:00:36.300 wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. While in hospital, she 738 01:00:36.360 --> 01:00:41.469 made a startling admission to a friend. Her husband was 739 01:00:41.550 --> 01:00:46.829 the Lake Budum murderer. Although she had initially told police 740 01:00:46.889 --> 01:00:49.090 that he was at home asleep on the night in 741 01:00:49.170 --> 01:00:52.719 question … Now she claimed that she had only provided 742 01:00:52.760 --> 01:00:55.800 him with an alibi because she was scared Gilstrom would 743 01:00:55.840 --> 01:01:01.219 attack her and their children. After learning of this admission, 744 01:01:01.610 --> 01:01:05.469 police attempted to interview her again, but she refused to 745 01:01:05.550 --> 01:01:11.070 speak with them for fear of her husband. No physical 746 01:01:11.150 --> 01:01:14.769 evidence that Carl Gilstrom was the Bodum Lake murderer was 747 01:01:14.849 --> 01:01:18.550 ever found. and the police closed their file on him 748 01:01:18.710 --> 01:01:26.400 in September 1969. According to Finland's evening newspaper, an 80-page 749 01:01:26.480 --> 01:01:33.969 police investigation file dedicated to Gilstrom came to light in 2005. Unfortunately, 750 01:01:33.989 --> 01:01:42.590 it shed no further light on his possible involvement. Suspicions 751 01:01:42.630 --> 01:01:46.369 have also remained around the other key suspect in the case, 752 01:01:46.730 --> 01:01:50.489 Hans Assmann, the German man who sought treatment at a 753 01:01:50.530 --> 01:01:56.190 Helsinki hospital the day after the murders. He'd raised suspicion 754 01:01:56.269 --> 01:02:00.900 amongst hospital staff due to his bizarre behaviour, troubling comments 755 01:02:01.380 --> 01:02:06.639 and resemblance to the police sketch. Following the release of 756 01:02:06.699 --> 01:02:11.300 the sketch, Hans Assmann suddenly shaved off his long pale hair, 757 01:02:11.880 --> 01:02:14.980 an act that could have been interpreted as an intentional 758 01:02:15.079 --> 01:02:21.440 effort to avoid comparisons. Jorma Palo, who had treated Asman 759 01:02:21.500 --> 01:02:24.880 as a medical intern at the time, was so convinced 760 01:02:24.960 --> 01:02:28.760 of Asman's guilt that he authored three books on the subject. 761 01:02:30.340 --> 01:02:35.070 He and Marti Paloaro, a former crime commissioner turned journalist, 762 01:02:35.469 --> 01:02:39.289 speculated that the police were refusing to investigate Asman as 763 01:02:39.329 --> 01:02:46.579 a suspect due to sensitive national security matters. In 1997, 764 01:02:46.579 --> 01:02:51.920 an ailing Asman granted an exclusive bedside interview to Marti Palauaro. 765 01:02:53.239 --> 01:02:57.519 During their conversation, Marti asked Asman directly if he was 766 01:02:57.579 --> 01:03:03.840 responsible for the Lake Bulda murders. Asman replied that he would, quote, 767 01:03:04.659 --> 01:03:09.800 not talk about the details. Marti took this as a confession. 768 01:03:11.269 --> 01:03:15.269 Hans Asman died the following year at the age of 74. 769 01:03:15.269 --> 01:03:22.239 For many, suspicions that Asman may have been the Bodum 770 01:03:22.300 --> 01:03:26.739 Lake killer were put to rest in 2005 when police 771 01:03:26.860 --> 01:03:32.800 unsealed an investigation file that related to him. Mika Mörsö, 772 01:03:33.199 --> 01:03:37.920 a special reporter for Finland's Ilta Sanomat newspaper, was given 773 01:03:38.039 --> 01:03:43.349 access to the entire file, and on October 1, 2005, 774 01:03:43.349 --> 01:03:48.429 published an article on the findings. The file showed that 775 01:03:48.510 --> 01:03:52.909 in June 1960, after receiving the tip-off by the Helsinki 776 01:03:52.989 --> 01:03:57.929 Hospital doctors, the police had in fact investigated Aspen as 777 01:03:57.989 --> 01:04:02.730 a potential suspect. However, he was quickly ruled out on 778 01:04:02.769 --> 01:04:07.300 the basis of an airtight alibi. On the night of 779 01:04:07.389 --> 01:04:11.739 June 4, 1960, Asman had shared a bed with his 780 01:04:11.820 --> 01:04:15.380 girlfriend in the same apartment as her sister and her 781 01:04:15.440 --> 01:04:21.570 sister's husband. According to witness statements by all three, Asman 782 01:04:21.630 --> 01:04:25.769 arrived at about 6pm on June 4 and woke up 783 01:04:25.849 --> 01:04:28.659 on the morning of the Lake Buda murders at 9am. 784 01:04:31.309 --> 01:04:35.849 Police also

interviewed several witnesses who confirmed that Asman had 785 01:04:35.889 --> 01:04:39.440 been painting at a construction site on both Saturday June 786 01:04:39.440 --> 01:04:44.940 4 and Sunday June 5. On Monday, the construction site's 787 01:04:45.000 --> 01:04:48.489 caretaker gave Asman a bottle of wine and the two 788 01:04:48.550 --> 01:04:54.230 men indulged. According to Asman's wife and his regular doctor, 789 01:04:54.690 --> 01:04:58.449 he had been suffering from severe stomach pains for some time. 790 01:05:00.059 --> 01:05:04.309 After drinking the wine, these pains returned and Asman called 791 01:05:04.329 --> 01:05:08.809 his wife to collect him. When she arrived, she found 792 01:05:08.849 --> 01:05:14.130 him unconscious and called the paramedics. An ambulance delivered them 793 01:05:14.230 --> 01:05:20.289 to Helsinki Surgical Hospital, where Asman was treated. According to 794 01:05:20.309 --> 01:05:23.650 the police file, the stains that were on his clothes 795 01:05:23.789 --> 01:05:31.340 that day were paint, not blood. In 1978, police checked 796 01:05:31.460 --> 01:05:34.289 the foreign fingerprint on a soda bottle found at the 797 01:05:34.349 --> 01:05:41.829 Lake Bulldom crime scene. It did not match Asman's. Despite 798 01:05:41.869 --> 01:05:46.250 the release of Asman's police file, many true crime enthusiasts 799 01:05:46.389 --> 01:05:50.110 remain convinced that he could have been the Lake Bulldom killer. 800 01:05:51.570 --> 01:05:54.469 One reason for this is his likeness to the police 801 01:05:54.489 --> 01:06:00.239 sketch that was produced following Nils' hypnosis sessions. there are 802 01:06:00.340 --> 01:06:04.599 only a few photographs of Aspen in circulation today, one 803 01:06:04.639 --> 01:06:10.119 of which bears a striking resemblance to the composite. There 804 01:06:10.179 --> 01:06:14.260 is another photograph widely available on the internet that was 805 01:06:14.340 --> 01:06:19.159 supposedly snapped at the funeral of Seppl Boysman, Tuliki Maki 806 01:06:19.449 --> 01:06:26.869 and Irmeli Björklund on June 13 1960. The photograph depicts 807 01:06:26.929 --> 01:06:31.550 a large group of mourners, Standing towards the centre is 808 01:06:31.639 --> 01:06:36.639 a taller man. Unlike most of the other attendees, he 809 01:06:36.719 --> 01:06:40.619 is not looking straight ahead or casting his gaze downward 810 01:06:40.719 --> 01:06:46.710 in a solemn expression. Instead, his somewhat bulbous eyes seem 811 01:06:46.809 --> 01:06:51.469 fixated on something to his left. His face is angular, 812 01:06:51.789 --> 01:06:55.809 with protruding cheeks, a straight nose and a strong jaw. 813 01:06:57.090 --> 01:07:02.739 he looks strikingly similar to the suspect sketch. Some believe 814 01:07:02.920 --> 01:07:10.469 that this man is also Hans Assmann. This speculation relies 815 01:07:10.550 --> 01:07:14.010 heavily on the accuracy of the description given by Nils 816 01:07:14.050 --> 01:07:20.510 Gustafsson while under hypnosis. In the decades since 1960, the 817 01:07:20.670 --> 01:07:26.219 use of forensic hypnosis has proven to be unreliable. Studies 818 01:07:26.260 --> 01:07:30.400 have shown that hypnotised subjects may be more vulnerable to 819 01:07:30.460 --> 01:07:35.260 recovering false memories or being overly confident in their recollections, 820 01:07:35.679 --> 01:07:40.809 even when such memories are false. The six district court 821 01:07:40.869 --> 01:07:45.150 judges at Nils' trial did not consider his recovered memories 822 01:07:45.230 --> 01:07:50.300 to be reliable in any way. Nils himself has said 823 01:07:50.380 --> 01:07:56.380 that he has no recollection of what he said while hypnotised. Consequently, 824 01:07:56.840 --> 01:08:00.429 the descriptions he provided of the suspect at that time 825 01:08:00.869 --> 01:08:11.719 cannot be verified. As of late 2021, 61 years have 826 01:08:11.800 --> 01:08:16.260 passed since the brutal murders of Seppo Boisman, Tuliki Maki 827 01:08:16.399 --> 01:08:21.239 and Irmeli Björklund. All three were laid to rest side 828 01:08:21.279 --> 01:08:26.119 by side in the Helsinki Parish Church Cemetery. In the 829 01:08:26.159 --> 01:08:29.420 decades since the tragedy that claimed the lives of his 830 01:08:29.460 --> 01:08:33.859 girlfriend and best friend, Nils Gustafsson has never had any 831 01:08:34.000 --> 01:08:38.350 criminal record, nor has he exhibited any signs of being 832 01:08:38.390 --> 01:08:43.369 an angry or violent man. Many believe that the murder 833 01:08:43.409 --> 01:08:46.810 charges brought against Nils were a fumble in the dark 834 01:08:46.930 --> 01:08:50.060 from a police force burdened by one of Finland's most 835 01:08:50.239 --> 01:08:56.979 infamous unsolved crimes. Nils described how, after his arrest, the 836 01:08:57.020 --> 01:09:01.689 police seized his family photo albums. Some of the private, 837 01:09:01.770 --> 01:09:06.449 personal pictures within were splashed across newspapers the following day. 838 01:09:07.939 --> 01:09:13.100 During the trial, salacious headlines focused on the prosecution's baseless 839 01:09:13.180 --> 01:09:19.460 claims of drunkenness, sexual jealousy, and rage. Hounded by the media, 840 01:09:19.979 --> 01:09:23.319 Nils and his family were forced to hide in their home. 841 01:09:24.859 --> 01:09:29.039 After his acquittal, Nils was found to have suffered deprivation 842 01:09:29.079 --> 01:09:34.210 of liberty and loss of reputation. He was awarded compensation 843 01:09:34.390 --> 01:09:42.250 in the form of 45,000 euros. Decades later, advances in 844 01:09:42.310 --> 01:09:46.750 forensic technology tried and failed to shed light on the murders. 845 01:09:48.250 --> 01:09:51.729 So much time has now passed that many believe the 846 01:09:51.850 --> 01:09:56.239 identity of the killer will likely remain an enduring mystery. 847 01:10:01.840 --> 01:10:06.180 Nine years after the murders, the kiosk man, Carl Gilstrom, 848 01:10:06.560 --> 01:10:10.399 was drinking with a neighbour named Berdier when he suddenly 849 01:10:10.500 --> 01:10:16.670 grew extremely angry. Then, just as quickly, his mood switched 850 01:10:16.829 --> 01:10:22.510 to one of despair. Berrier couldn't figure out what was wrong. 851 01:10:24.250 --> 01:10:30.909 Gilstrom blurted out, Don't you realise I'm Bouldam's murderer? What 852 01:10:30.930 --> 01:10:36.880 am I going to do? Berrier, apparently frightened by this outburst, 853 01:10:37.180 --> 01:10:41.680 told his neighbour, If you are the murderer of Bouldam, 854 01:10:42.140 --> 01:10:45.300 then go and drown yourself and do it right away. 855 01:10:45.970 --> 01:10:49.109 because otherwise they will put you in a small prison 856 01:10:49.189 --> 01:10:54.470 cell for the rest of your life. At about 6 857 01:10:54.470 --> 01:10:59.810 that same evening, Gilstrom's 15-year-old son couldn't find his father. 858 01:11:01.430 --> 01:11:04.289 He went out looking for him around the lake and 859 01:11:04.350 --> 01:11:07.489 eventually came across some people who told him that they'd 860 01:11:07.560 --> 01:11:11.279 seen his father swimming just off the eastern peninsula on 861 01:11:11.319 --> 01:11:16.630 the south shore. It was a location where he often swam, 862 01:11:17.430 --> 01:11:23.149 right near where the Lake Bodum murders occurred. But Gilstrom's 863 01:11:23.229 --> 01:11:26.020 son saw no sign of his father in the lake. 864 01:11:27.199 --> 01:11:31.760 When Gilstrom failed to reappear, police were summoned to Lake 865 01:11:31.840 --> 01:11:38.829 Bodum to undertake a search. A short while later, Gilstrom's 866 01:11:38.890 --> 01:11:42.130 body was found floating just off the headland. 867 01:12:15.399 --> 01:12:18.510 We all love to communicate, but with more ways to 868 01:12:18.550 --> 01:12:20.329 do it than ever, it can be confusing. 869 01:12:20.979 --> 01:12:22.760 Sometimes it's like a different language. 870 01:12:23.399 --> 01:12:28.590 We're Comreg, Ireland's independent communications regulator for mobile and broadband services. 871 01:12:29.130 --> 01:12:31.369 We have online support and we can help you resolve 872 01:12:31.409 --> 01:12:35.029 issues with your provider if things go wrong. When communication 873 01:12:35.069 --> 01:12:37.329 needs navigation, we'll help you find the way.