#dismembering

Virpi Sanna Sinikka Butt (b. 9th of August 1972) became famous in Finland from the TV-series Gladiators, between the years 1993 to 1994. She was a female Gladiator called “Diamond”. Little did people know back then that she would gain popularity from more gruesome things in the future. 

On 29th of May 2002 Butt was hanging out and drinking with her boyfriend, 29 year old Kari Pekka Anttonen and her friend Janne Hyvönen (b. 1974). They were in a bar called Sputnik, located in Tampere. They left the bar at some point and all three went to Butt’s apartment. Early in the morning Hyvönen stabbed Anttonen in the back with a knife. After that, he saw his head off. Butt and Hyvönen dragged Anttonen’s body to the bathroom and after that cleaned the apartment. During the murder, Butt’s two children, aged 2 and 16, were present. The 2 year old son was sleeping in the same room where Butt and Hyvönen killed Anttonen. The 16 year old son was sleeping in a walk-in wardrobe (I have no idea why, possibly because the apartment might have been very small) and he apparently had went to the room to see what his mom and mom’s friend were doing, also seeing the body.

After the murder Butt had carried Anttonen’s head around the city and told people about it. Some sources claim she also showed it to people, but apparently that is not true. Butt told the police that the motive for that was that she wanted the police to found out about the murder. After some time Hyvönen put the head into a pot and boiled it. 

In 2003 Butt and Hyvönen were celebrating Midsummer together. Butt went to buy alcohol while Hyvönen babysat her 3 year old child. During Butt’s shopping trip she had bumped into her previous Midsummer date, 26 year old Arto Malinen. They then went to a bar and stayed there till it closed. After that they had went to Malinen’s apartment with a taxi. On the next day they continued drinking in the bar, but at some point they were kicked out from there. When they were walking on the streets, someone tried to buy drugs from them. They apparently promised that they had some for the buyer in Malinen’s apartment, so they went there. However when they got there and the young man didn’t get the promised drugs he got angry. A conflict broke out and it ended with Butt stabbing Malinen with a kitchen knife on the back, 10 times. Butt called Hyvönen and asked his help with disposing of the body. When Hyvönen arrived they dismembered Malinen and stole his possessions. 

After the murder public-safety answering point got a call from a man who told that a man had been murdered last night, and that he also had been dismembered. The police didn’t take it seriously at first because the caller told that he had heard about it, not been present during the murder. After that a woman called as well and told the same things, but that she had been present during the murder. The police asked her “are you serious with this?”, they found it hard to believe what had happened during that Midsummer night. After the second call however they started to investigate. They started to suspect that the callers had something to do with Anttonen’s death as well; Anttonen had been missing for a year at this point and they found out about Butt’s and his connection. Some people had also been talking how they thought Butt was responsible for his disappearance.

During the investigation they were searching for Anttonen’s body everywhere. The searching was not successful, but they were able to find Malinen’s body from Nokia.

The trial 

When the trial started, Hyvönen appeared in the court wearing the victim’s clothing. When going through Anttonen’s murder, Hyvönen told that he had cut off Anttonen’s feet and cooked them in an oven. He told he ate Anttonen’s meat, but Butt did not take part in this. However Butt had tried to offer Anttonen’s meat to her friend, claiming it was “cutlets”. Hyvönen also described the head boiling thing: “I just watched how the expressions on the face changed. It started to smile, the head. I was sitting in the kitchen, drank some liquor and laughed.” According to Butt, Hyvönen had took Anttonen’s teeth out by hitting them with a knife, but Hyvönen denied this. Hyvönen had cut Anttonen’s finger tips and tattoos off because he did not want the police to identify him by them. The rest of the dismembered body they put in cardboard boxes and after that put them to the balcony because they had started to smell. In the morning Hyvönen’s friend moved the boxes to dumbsters, all around Tampere. Butt and Hyvönen had wanted to also take some of the body parts to Nokia as well (town close to Tampere), but the friend didn’t agree to that.

When going through the murder of Malinen, Butt told that first she had undressed him. After that they had saw his head off and put his internal organs in bags and smaller organs they put in buckets and in a toilet. Butt and Hyvönen tried to run over Malinen’s head with a car, but it was unsuccessful because the head always slid aside. 

Butt and Malinen asked to be evaluated mentally and that was granted. It revealed that both of them were fully aware of their actions. Butt and Hyvönen were sentenced to life in prison. They were also commanded to pay 100 000 euros to the victim’s families.

After 

In August 2017 the court of appeals in Helsinki accepted Butt’s request for parole. Butt was released from prison on 31st of December 2018, after serving 15,5 years. According to forensic psychiatry there is a high chance Butt will commit new violence crimes, so Criminal Sanctions Agency (Rise) and the Psychiatric Hospital for Prisoners in Turku were against Butt’s release. The court of appeals however saw that Butt had evolved as a person and her return to a citizen would be easy since she had close relationships with her family and an apartment. The same court of appeals also accepted Hyvönen’s request for parole in August 2018 and he was released on 1st of March 2019.

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On Tuesday 24th of November 1998 the police in Hyvinkää got a call that a dismembered leg had been found from Kapula landfill. It was cut from the thigh and it was immediately clear it wasn’t cut with medical knowledge. The police asked help from the public with identifying the victim, stating the victim was between the ages of 20 to 60 years old. The police however made a little mistake when they informed the public that a man’s leg had been found. “We realized that it could’ve been a woman’s leg as well, you can’t make a conclusion on gender based on body hair.”

The medical examiner was able to specify the leg had been detached 2 to 3 days before being found, specifically during the last weekend. The police started investigating the landfill and trying to find more body parts from there. The search took weeks when eventually they found a peace, that at first was informed being a liver but later was realized being a part of a torso. It was an important find because now the police could drop the age distribution of the victim to 20 to 30 years old. They were also able to find clues of the lifestyle the victim had had, for example about their alcohol usage. The investigation team concluded the victim had needed some sort of assistance in their everyday life and this helped them to get the name of the victim. The DNA matched and the police started to look into the victims personal life.

On 8th of December 1998 the police arrested four young suspects. Very soon it was revealed that the main perpetrator was 23 years old Jarno Elg (b. 1975). He had been convicted earlier in his life when he was only 16 years old for burning a medieval church. He told the investigators that he was very interested in Satanism and described himself as a Satanist. The police found some “props” connected to Satanism from his apartment. As childish and silly as the picture below might appear, we can not forget that these gave him the inspiration for the horrible deed he committed. 

Elg’s 17 year old girlfriend Terhi Tervashonka (b. November 1981) was also one of the main perpetrators. On Friday 20th of November 1998 Elg, Tervashonka, 20 year old Mika Riska, unknown 16 year old boy and the 23 year old victim had been drinking and hanging out. First they spent their evening in a apartment in Järvenpää from where they went to a local church happening to debate about Christianity and Satanism. From there they went to Elg’s apartment in Hyvinkää. There they drank homemade liquor and listened to black metal. It is not exactly clear what happened but somehow the group got into humiliating the victim. They walked him around the apartment like a dog until Elg suddenly hit him so hard in the head he passed out. Then Elg and Tervashonka tied him up using duct tape also wrapping his whole head with it. They started to hit him with scissors around the body, but he most likely died of asphyxiation. 

After the victim had passed away Elg and Tervashonka started to commit unthinkable things to the corpse. These included cannibalism and necrophilia. They decapitated the corpse and desecrated the head. Lastly they dismembered the corpse with a saw. They hid the body parts in dumpsters trying to hide the evidence, luckily failing at this.

In 2000 Tervashonka told Alibi (Finnish crime magazine) that during the night they all had been very intoxicated and probably resulting from that the victim had started to make noise. This led to him being tied up with the duct tape. She told that the victim had suffocated by accident and that Satan worship had nothing to do with the case. She also denied the alleged cannibalism. 

Jarno Elg was sentenced to life in prison for murder and animal abuse, since he had also killed his own dog in a similar way: wrapping it in a duct tape and hitting it with scissors. He was released on probation in 2016 after serving his sentence for 17 years and has not committed any new crimes since then.

Terhi Tervashonka was sentenced to 8,5 years in prison. The sentence was short because she was young and didn’t fully understand what she had done. She got out in 2003 and in 2007 she murdered a 47 year old man with a billhook. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison and after getting out again she committed a prescription fraud and a theft. After that she has not committed any new crimes.

Mika Riska was sentenced to 2 years for aggravated assault and desecration of grave. He was satisfied with the conviction and after getting out he was convicted of drunk driving and that as for now is his last conviction.

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