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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.

“Defiant Convict Perches Atop 100-Foot Tower,” Atlanta Constitution. July 24, 1940. Page 01. --- Federal Pen Preferred to Prison Camp --- Was To Have Left U.S. Cell Today, Armed With Hammer ---- Armed with a machinist’s hammer, a 20-year-old convict yesterday afternoon took refuge on a precarious perch atop the Atlanta federal penitentiary’s 100-foot-high water tower, and continued to defy all efforts to dislodge him early this morning.

While prison floodlights brilliantly illuminated the strange drama, the youthful prisoner banged on the tank with the heavy hammer, and waved to hundreds of persons gathered in the streets below. During the day and night, thousands of persons saw the man on the tower.

Identified by Warden J. W. Sanford as Andrew Jackson Wynne, of Savannah, the prisoner showed little effects of his long vigil early this morning and continued performing for the spectators.

Defies Guards Clad in the gray denim trousers of the ‘Big House,’ he defied all pleas of guards that he come down, remaining high on his perch through the night and into today, when he was to have been a free man again.

His reluctance to accept freedom, however, was explained by prison officials, who said that there is a detainer against him from the Chatham county prison camp, from which he escaped September 25, 1937.

Red-Hot Poker. His Chatham sentence - four to five years - followed the burglary of an Episcopal minister’s apartment, when he threatened to burn the minister’s feet with a red-hot poker after the clergyman refused to give him money.

He was arrested by federal authorities in Virginia for violation of the motor vehicle theft law in 1938 and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary here. He began serving his sentence November 2, 1938.

Since 1:30 Yesterday According to the warden, Wynne climbed the ladder to the top of the water tower at about 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Wynne promptly took off his shirt and made himself at home high in the air, apparently unmindful of the torrid rays of the mid-July sun.

Presence of the prisoner on the unusual lodging place aroused excitement in the neighborhood of the prison. Wynne was plainly visible from McDonnough boulevard. Several persons trained field glasses upon him. Now and then Wynne yelled and waved his shirt at onlookers.

He appeared to be sunburned, but Warden Sanford said he had been on the work shift recently, and that for this reason Wynne was used to the sun and apparently undisturbed by the blistering heat.

Causes Trafic Jam. As Wynne sat down on the tower, a traffic jam occurred around the prison as cars halted and their drivers and passengers craned necks to look at the convict during the home-going rush hours.

Asked what he intended to do about Wynne, Warden Sanford said:

‘He’s got a heavy hammer and I don’t think it good judgement risking the lives of guards in attempting to dislodge him. Wynne knows he will have to finish his prison camp sentence and took this method of making it known that he’d rather stay in the prison here than leave it.’

“Fresh From Prison, Flourished A Knife,” Toronto Star. November 10, 1911. Page 1. ---- Threatened to Trim the People in a Butcher Shop to His Own Size ---- MAGISTRATE LET HIM GO ---- As Steven Walsh has been denied for four years the privilege of thrilling the public, owing to confinement in Kingston Penitentiary, he walked into a York street butcher shop last night, picked up a huge carving knife, and announced to the keeper of the shop that he had arrived ‘to do as they do in Russia - to trim then down to his own size.’

While he was still waiting for shouts of admiration, and was still flourishing the weapon, Constable Skelton came along.

"Thirty Dorchester Convicts Are Freed," Saint John Times Globe. May 3, 1935. Page 13. ---- Magistrate Scans Local Jail List for Jubilee Amnesty ---- Under partial amnesty granted in connection with King George's silver jubilee celebrations, some 30 convicts are to be released today and tomorrow from Dorchester penitentiary, it was learned authoritatively here today.

In jails throughout the province 37 prisoners will be set free tomorrow - under the sentence reductions announced by Hon. W. H. Harrison, K.C., attorney-general of New Brunswick.

High Sheriff H. Colby Smith said today that several prisoners will be freed from the county jail some time tomorrow - in time for them to observe the King's Jubilee.

Eleven incarcerated under the New Brunswick Intoxicating Liquor Act are entitled to their freedom tomorrow when the month reductions in sentences are made. Six others under the Liquor Act will have a month taken off their sentences. R. G. Fulton, Fredericton, chairman of the Liquor Control Board announced the clemency this week.

"EX-CONVICTS WALK IN FEAR FIND WORLD SO DIFFERENT," Toronto Star. May 14, 1935. Page 21 & 23. ---- To Them Children Are Curiosity, Says Big Brother Official ---- SOME GIVEN JOBS ---- "The ten men in Toronto released a few days ago from Kingston under the amnesty are afraid to go into a shop to buy razor blades or tooth paste," says Frank T. Sharpe, general secretary of the Big Brother Movement. "They are afraid to speak in the presence of a woman for fear that they will say something they should not say. To them children are a curiosity.

"They are afraid to use a knife. a fork or a spoon in the presence of other people. They want to watch how others behave without being seen."

"They had never heard a talking picture," says Major Wallace Bunton of the Salvation Army. "They never had seen a traffic light and they stand at an intersection and ask who turns it on and off. Twice in their lives have they heard a radio. We must be gentle and patient with them and answer their questions fully as one would answer a child."

Ten men are in Toronto who must report once a month for the rest of their lives to police headquarters; who must carry their "ticket" at all times and produce it "to any policeman, magistrate or peace officer." These have been in Kingston something less than 20 years and "must be afforded time in which to find themselves," according to Mr. Sharpe.

"The amnesty has brought into bold relief the fact that Ontario has urgent need for an organization to specifically care for the rehabilitation of prisoners," he contends.

"For these men there is no stepping-stone between incarceration and full freedom. Most of them. if they make good, must do so by the efforts of themselves and their friends," says C. F. Neelands, deputy provincial secretary.

"In England and Wales approximately 50 prisoners' aid societies help discharged prisoners, giving annually $150,000. In Ontario only one organization of this kind is functioning."

Altogether apart from individual effort of friends, relatives and officials throughout the province, of which there is no record, here is the discoverable assistance given to amnesty released men in Toronto: Major Bunton of the Salvation Army cared for 10 and has obtained employment for most of the 10, he says.

Frank Sharpe and certain of his confreres in the Big Brother Movement are caring for four men and have some seasonable employment for two of them and are seeking every means to obtain more.