The Lake Bodom Murders

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Episode 2: The Lake Bodom Murders - Finland's Most Enduring Mystery

Runtime: 50 minutes

For our proper debut into the world of forgotten crimes, we're heading to Finland in 1960, where four teenagers went camping by a picturesque lake and only one came home alive. The Lake Bodom murders have haunted Finland for over six decades, and frankly, we can see why.

Three young people were brutally killed in their collapsed tent while the fourth, Nils Gustafsson, survived with mysterious injuries and, some say, convenient memory loss. The Wife walks us through this genuinely baffling case involving a possibly homicidal kiosk owner, a supposed Nazi-turned-KGB-agent with the unfortunate surname Assman, and witness accounts that make about as much sense as Finnish tax law.

The Husband, meanwhile, struggles with the lo ...