Evidence Locker True Crime

In July 1984, beneath Sweden’s midnight sun, a remote campsite near Lake Appojaure became the scene of a brutal double murder. Dutch tourists Marinus and Janny Stegehuis were stabbed to death as they slept in their tent, an attack that shocked the nation and remains unresolved.
This episode marks a milestone for The Evidence Locker: released in celebration of our 250th episode, it is also a remastered re-release of our very first case. We revisit the Appojaure tent killings, the failed investigation, and the later false confession by Thomas Quick, whose story collapsed under forensic scrutiny.
Decades on, the truth remains buried in the wilderness, and the real killer has never been identified.

In the summer of 1960, four teenagers went camping at Lake Bodom. In the pre-dawn hours, an unknown assailant attacked them inside their tent, slashing them with a knife and hitting them with a blunt object. Of the four, only 18-year-old Nils Gustafsson survived, narrowly escaping death. 45 years later, he was charged with killing his friends, but acquitted. To this day, the mystery of what happened at Lake Bodom on that sultry night haunts the people of Finland.

Special thanks: Pahan Äärellä Podcast

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Resources
Documentary
Murhan DNA – Bodominjärvin murhat
Web
Wikipedia
Murha.com
Hypnosis of Nils Gustafsson
Articles
True Crime: Lake Bodom Murders
Campsite Killer: The Unsolved Mystery of the Lake Bodom Murders
When Anneli Happo, 72, heard of the events of Lake Bodom…
A Killing at Lake Bodom: a nation looking for a murderer
The Lake Bodom Murders
Espoo politician is sure he knows who the Bodom killer was
The dark secret of Lake Bodom
Double Murder at Tulilahti
We lost the Butcher of Lake Bodom
The Double Death at Tulilahti

Created & Produced by Sonya Lowe
Narrated by Noel Vinson
Music: "Nordic Medieval" by Marcus Bressler
Background track: Doblado Studios: https://www.youtube.com/c/DobladoStudios
This True Crime Podcast was researched using open-source or archive materials.

July 1959. Two young women on a cycling holiday vanished from a Finnish campsite. Eine Nyyssönen, 21, and Riitta Pakkanen, 23, were found buried in a bog three weeks later, marked by a sharpened stick. Over 60 years later, this brutal double murder remains unsolved.

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Resources
Books
Pennanen, Mikko: Tulilahden murhamysteeri 
Keskisarja, Teemu: Tulilahti 
Markkula, Hannes: Suomalainen murha 1953-1990
Documentary
Tulilahden murhenäytelmä (1959 - Suomen Filmiteollisuus)
Ei vanhene koskaan: Tulilahden kaksoismurha - syyllinen vai syytön (1997)
YLE Elävä arkisto: Takaisin Tulilahdelle
Web
Wikipedia: Tulilahden kaksoismurha
ForenSeek: The Tulilahti Double Murder - Interview with Mikko Pennanen
Deserted Finland: Tulilahti Murder Scene
Articles
Unsolved Mysteries: The Double Murder at the Tulilahti Campsite 
Two Young Women Killed Whilst Camping in Finland 
Tulilahden kaksoismurha ei selvinnyt – Pääepäilty hirttäytyi vankisellissään 
Riitta, 23, ja Eine, 21, ovat yhä vailla oikeutta 
Tulilahden kaksoismurha: kuka surmasi julmasti nuoret naiset? 

Created & Produced by Sonya Lowe
Narrated by Noel Vinson
Music: "Nordic Medieval" by Marcus Bressler
Background track: Doblado Studios: https://www.youtube.com/c/DobladoStudios

This True Crime Podcast was researched using open-source or archival materials.

On a winter evening in 1931, a soft-spoken insurance agent was lured from his Liverpool home by a strange telephone message. The address he searched for didn’t exist. By the time he returned, his wife had been brutally murdered. Who was the caller? Was the alibi a masterstroke of deception? Or did someone exploit the perfect opportunity?
Tried. Convicted. Acquitted.
 Nearly a century later, the murder of Julia Wallace remains one of the most baffling cases in British criminal history.

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Resources
Book
Jonathan Goodman – The Killing of Julia Wallace
Web
The Julia Wallace Murder Foundation
Wikipedia – William Herbert Wallace
Wikipedia – R v Wallace (1931)
Articles
The Unredacted – The Killing of Julia Wallace: An Impossible Murder
Chess Notes by Edward Winter – Wallace Case
The Spectator Archive – "The Wallace Case"
Murder Archives: Liverpool Echo Retrospectives

Created & Produced by Sonya Lowe
Narrated by Noel Vinson
Music: "Nordic Medieval" by Marcus Bressler
Background track: Doblado Studios: https://www.youtube.com/c/DobladoStudios
This True Crime Podcast was researched using open-source or archival materials.

Every December, thousands of letters addressed to Santa are sent to North Pole, Alaska. Boxes full of letters are then sent to North Pole Middle School, where they are included in the 6th Grade curriculum: North Pole’s 11 and 12-year-olds are nominated as Santa’s little helpers and reply to all the letters on Santa’s behalf.
But in April 2006, the peace in this snow globe of a town was shattered when six 7th Graders hatched a plan to kill their classmates. The would-be attackers had drawn up a “naughty list” of kids at school that they wanted to murder in one violent, coordinated attack. Just the previous year, they were acting as elves, writing letters to other children all over the country. A couple of months later, they were gearing up to be monsters.

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Resources 
YouTube
Tour of North Pole Alaska
Articles
Last night’s TV: Death in Santaland
Alaskan boys planned school massacre
North Pole, Alaska
Bad tidings
A man named Santa Claus was elected to city council in North Pole, Alaska

Created & Produced by Sonya Lowe
Narrated by Noel Vinson
Music: "Nordic Medieval" by Marcus Bressler
Background track: Doblado Studios: https://www.youtube.com/c/DobladoStudios
This True Crime Podcast was researched using open-source or archive materials.