Jammu Siltavuori

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Antti Veikko Ilmari Siltavuori (born October 29, 1926) (also known as Jammu Siltavuori or Jammu-setä, "Uncle Jammu") is a Finnish man who murdered two 8-year-old girls, Päivi-Maria Hopiavuori and Tanja Johanna Pirinen. He burned the bodies shortly after. He had picked up both girls for a car ride from Myllypuro, a neighbourhood in Helsinki, on March 3, 1989. Prior to this, he had been convicted of raping a five-year-old girl, sexual harassment, and attempted murder. He had also built a self-made jail complete with cells, barred windows and small toilets in Paltamo, Kainuu, but there is no evidence that he built it for keeping the children hostage.

For the two murders, Siltavuori was sentenced to 15 years in prison with the possibility of parole after 10 years, because a mental health examination legally found him to be partially insane. If that had not been the case, Siltavuori would have been sentenced to life imprisonment. After 10 years had elapsed, his first and second parole hearings in a Prison Court were unsuccessful. After he served one more year in jail, the Prison Court released him on strictly supervised parole on January 31, 2000, on his third parole hearing. However, he was immediately involuntary committed to the Niuvanniemi mental hospital in Kuopio for criminal-psychiatric reasons. The involuntary commitment was reaffirmed in 2007 by the administrative court of Kuopio, on the basis that if he was released, he would be a serious security risk.

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• Hannes Markkula: Kuusi suomalaista murhaa (1996)