On a bright summer morning in 1960, carpenter Esko Johansen walked through the Finnish woods toward Lake Bodom.

The silence felt wrong.

Then he saw the collapsed tent, blood everywhere, a pair of lifeless feet protruding from the entrance.

One year earlier, army conscript Mano Kiviyaho, pair of lifeless feet protruding from the entrance.

One year earlier, Army conscript Mano Kiviyaho searched the forests around Tulilati.

When he spotted the sharpened stick jutting from marshy ground, his stomach tightened.

Beneath thick logs in peat lay two young women who had been missing for weeks. Twelve years later,

in 1972, a young woman arrived at a campsite near Kutaya Manor to find three young men dead

in their tent, all shot in the head. And in 1984, a family on holiday drove down a side road in Swedish Lapland.

Fifty meters from the main road, they saw a collapsed tent with something bulging underneath

the canvas. A lifeless hand stuck out from beneath the fabric.

Four cases, four tent murders, spanning 25 years across Finland and Sweden. Some solved? Most not.

All sharing disturbing similarities that have haunted investigators and true crime researchers for decades.

Today, for this episode, we're doing something different. We're bringing together cases you've heard on our podcast before.

Some were recently, we released for context. The tent murders at Apiora, Lake Bodom, Tulilati, and the Viking Sally attack.

We'll examine the patterns, the connections, and the questions that still remain unanswered?

What links these brutal attacks? Were they connected? Or do these similarities reveal something darker about how easily violence can find us in our most vulnerable moments?

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