Lake Bodom
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Lake Bodom in winter 2004 |
Lake Bodom (
Bodominjärvi in
Finnish) is a
lake in
Finland located on the suburbs of the city of
Espoo, not far from
Helsinki. The lake measures approximately three
kilometers in length and one kilometer in width.
Its notoriety comes from the murders that occurred on the night of the fourth of June of
1960, when four teenagers (two boys, Nils Gustaffson and Seppo Boisman and two girls, Tuulikki Mäki and Irmeli Björklund) went on a camping trip to the lake and were mysteriously attacked. Three of them were slaughtered and one survived. This event is commonly referred to as the
Lake Bodom murders. In June,
2005 the only survivor, Nils Gustafsson, was charged with murdering his friends. On October 7, 2005 the
district court found him not guilty on all the charges laid against him.
The increasingly popular
metal band
Children of Bodom, who are also from
Espoo, took their name from these murders.
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Lake Bodom murders*
Children of Bodom
