January 16, 1872 - Karl Emil Malmelin
What distinguishes Malmelin's case historically is less its complexity than its stark totality — a single act of violence that wiped out an entire household, five people in all, in a rural Finnish community in 1899. The crime followed a personal rejection and was carried out with an axe against women and children as well as adults, leaving no survivors at the croft.
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Karl Emil Malmelin (16 January 1872 – 26 February 1944) was a Finnish farmworker and mass murderer.
Malmelin was born 1872 in Espoo as the illegitimate child of Helena Gustava Malmelin, a maid at a Lahnus croft. As an adult, Malmelin became a farmworker at the Simola croft in Klaukkala, a village in the southern part of the Nurmijärvi municipality. The tenant there was Johan Ezekiel Aspelin. Malmelin began dating Edla, the crofter's daughter, but when she would not become his wife, he killed everyone on the croft with an axe on 10 May 1899. Three of the victims were women and two were children. Malmelin was arrested a couple of weeks later.
Malmelin was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Turku Court of Appeal.
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