June 23, 1930 - Ensio Koivunen
The method Koivunen used — piping exhaust into the passenger cabin while his victims slept — left little immediate evidence and gave him plausible cover through a series of shifting, implausible explanations he maintained under interrogation. His three victims were young women hitchhiking across southern Finland in the summer of 1971, a routine act of travel that proved fatal through his deliberate exploitation of it. The investigation that caught him was notable in its own right: the National Bureau of Investigation distributed victim photographs to filling stations and dance halls across the region, a novel approach at the time that ultimately led to his arrest.
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