A four-part crime-drama about Juhani Aataminpoika/Johan Adamsson who murdered 12 people during five weeks in the autumn of 1849. It is still a Finnish record. Among the victims were his own family. He was extremely versatile. He killed ...See moreA four-part crime-drama about Juhani Aataminpoika/Johan Adamsson who murdered 12 people during five weeks in the autumn of 1849. It is still a Finnish record. Among the victims were his own family. He was extremely versatile. He killed acquaintances, unknown, in the dump, sober, in connection with robbery, in anger, without cause, planned, he killed people of all ages, of both sexes. In 1850 The Vyborg Court of Appeal sentenced him to death. The sentence was upheld in the Senate's Department of Justice, but the Emperor commuted it to 40 lashes and a life imprisonment sentence. He was transferred to Suomenlinna in January 1853 and kept there, chained to a wall, until his death in 1854. Written by
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