1: The Tent Killings at Lake Appojaure | Sweden

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🗓️ 1 July 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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It was after 9 pm on Friday night the 13th of July 1984. A family of three from Gothenburg were travelling in the scenic Lapland mountains in the north of Sweden. In the arctic circle, July is time for The Midnight Sun, which means the sun doesn’t set at all. It is bright and light for 24 hours a day. It was late summer, and it had been raining for a couple of days.

When they drove down a side road to take in the scenery of Lake Appojaure, they could never have imagined what awaited them. A grisly discovery was about to change their holiday into a nightmare.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the evidence locker.
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0:30.0	It was after 9 p.m. on Friday night, the 13th of July 1984. A family of three from Gothenburg were traveling in the scenic Lapland Mountains in the north of Sweden.
0:35.6	In the Arctic Circle, July is a time for the midnight sun, which means that the sun does not set at all.
0:41.2	It is bright and light for 24 hours a day. At this time it was late summer and it had been raining for a couple of days.
0:48.3	When they drove down a side road off the Puyas Road to take in the scenery of Lake Apiora, they could never have imagined what awaited them.
0:56.0	A grizzly discovery was about to change their holiday into a nightmare.
1:01.0	50 meters from the main road, they saw a Toyota Corino with foreign number plates at a
1:05.0	campsite. There was a collapsed tent with something bulging underneath the canvas.
1:10.0	They thought someone, perhaps a poacher, had hidden a dead reindeer inside the tent and simply left.
1:16.4	But when they saw a lifeless human hand sticking out from under the tent, they realized that something horrible
1:20.6	must have taken place at this peaceful camping spot.
1:24.5	The remains were those of Yani and Marinus Stegahoyce, a Dutch couple in the 30s who were
1:29.2	vacationing in Sweden.
1:31.7	One of Sweden's most extensive investigations followed spanning over more than three decades. And then Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Marina Sagnani Stegehois came from Almello, an industrial town of about 70,000 people in the Netherlands.
2:20.0	In 1984, they had been married for 13 years and had no children.
2:25.0	Yani was a clerk at a recreation center and Marinas was a factory worker at Phillips.
2:30.0	For three years, the couple saved up to go on their dream vacation.
2:34.0	A trip through Norway, Sweden, and into Finland.
2:37.0	They loved nature and both of them were keen photographers.
2:39.9	Visiting this part of the world was exactly their cup of tea,
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