Ari Disappeared on a Recreational Trip Milla Never Returned to the Army These 5 Cases Ended Tragically

About a thousand people go missing in Finland every year Most of them can be found within a week.

Mika Ihaksinen, head of the Central Criminal Police's (KRP) homicide line, says that the vast majority of people who have been missing for more than a week are found dead Some are never found.

Iltalehti compiled five tragically resolved disappearance cases from recent years Disappeared wearing only a nightgown Omainen's concern arose in December 2019, when Paula Leino-Mäkilä had disappeared during the night.

The 59-year-old Leino-Mäkilä's walker, wallet and his beloved dog were left in the apartment in Harjavalla There was no indication that he had gone his own way, of his own free will.

However, Leino-Mäkilä's case was investigated as a disappearance, until the KRP announced that the investigation title had changed to a homicide in early 2020 The body of Leino-Mäkilä, who went missing wearing only a nightgown, was found in April.

It was hidden about 170 meters away from Leino-Mäkilä's apartment, behind a compost bin The gruesome discovery was made by a resident of the property.

No signs of external violence were found on the bodies, so the investigation continued as an inquest into the cause of death The police gave little information about the incident.

The situation changed when forensic examinations revealed that Leino-Mäkilä died of drug poisoning The husband is suspected of having killed her at the end of an argument by feeding her Triptyl antidepressants, which caused her death by poisoning.

The husband has been imprisoned and released several times during the investigation The Satakunta district court started hearing the case in January 2023.

The 55-year-old spouse is accused of murder, and a 10-year prison sentence is demanded He has vehemently denied the charges.

The court will give its verdict later Death in the back seat of an Opel 27-year-old Jari Pesonen, who had just become a father, disappeared in August 2005.

He had gone to spend the evening in a pub in Ilomanti, but during the evening he informed his spouse that he was going to continue the evening in Joensuu Pesonen didn't make it there alive.

At Kontiolahti, 28-year-old Juha Karhapää, who was part of the party, strangled Pesonen in the back seat of the Opel In addition to the killer and the victim, the group included a 20-year-old man and Karhapää's girlfriend at the time, a 19-year-old woman driving the car.

Bearhead had threatened their lives, which is why they remained silent about death for years Karhapää first hid the body in the basement of an abandoned house in Hattuvaara.

From there he moved the body to a place where it was never found The motive for the act remained unclear.

According to Karhapää's ex-girlfriend, Pesonen and Karhapää had "jumped" at each other during the drive Juha Karhapää was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison for manslaughter in December 2018.

He denied the charges and appealed his sentence to the Court of Appeal The verdict was upheld.

Due to debts, 21-year-old Milla Aronen did not return from vacation to the garrison in June 2019 The case was investigated as a disappearance for a couple of months.

During the investigation, the police spoke to Arone's relatives, including her ex-boyfriend, Jyri Niemi At the end of August, Nieminen was arrested on suspicion of murder.

He vehemently denied being in any way involved in the disappearance Only at the turn of the year did he reveal that he had caused Arone's death.

- He (Nieminen) said that he had hit Milla with such force that Milla died, director of the investigation, crime commissioner Jarkko Toivonen from krp told iltalehte in March 2020 Nieminen's financial problems were suspected as the motive for the death.

During the preliminary investigation, it had become clear that Nieminen had tried to withdraw money from Arone's account and applied for 57,400 euros in quick tips in his name Born in 1995, Niemi was accused of murder.

Nieminen admitted in court that he punched his ex-girlfriend once in the face, causing her death Nieminen said that he wrapped the body in garbage bags and threw it in a large, locked garbage can in Salo.

However, no signs of a body were found in the garbage can, and nothing supported Nieminen's claim A life sentence was demanded for Niemis.

He was convicted in the district court of aggravated assault, manslaughter, attempted aggravated fraud, for breaking the peace and payment instrument fraud for less than three years in prison The Court of Appeal changed the sentence to life imprisonment.

The Supreme Court rejected Nieminen's appeal leave application in September 2021 Arone's body was never found.

The police suspected that the man who worked as a garbage truck assistant had actually taken the body to the waste incineration plant Body found in street drain A 29-year-old man disappeared in Järvenpää in November 2019.

KRP crime commissioner Sanna Springare opened the course of an extraordinary investigation on MTV's Crime scene program in spring 2021 The last sighting of the man was an emergency call he made.

The man asked for help and said he was running away from his pursuers Based on the call, the police had reason to assume that his life had been threatened.

The case was investigated as a homicide At the end of a long-lasting police investigation, the man's body was found in a rainwater drain in June 2020, seven months after the disappearance.

The background sounds of an emergency call led the police to the sewer The sound of water in the background had gone unnoticed before.

The police returned to the place where the emergency call had been placed and found a drain nozzle in the ditch First, the lost wallet was found.

This drove the researchers deeper into the sewer Finally, a missing body was found in the image of the robot camera.

According to the medical examiner, it was not a homicide, but the cause of death was never revealed According to MTV Uutinen, the man who suffered from substance abuse problems had presumably gone into the sewer himself, under the influence of drugs.

Disappeared on a recreational trip Ari Saarilammi, who participated in Ammattiyhdist's recreational trip to Tallinn, did not return from the brewery restaurant to the hotel in November 2017 The 54-year-old Saarilammi's luggage had been left at the hotel, and his phone had been switched off after midnight.

The searches carried out by Estonian and Finnish authorities and volunteers received a lot of public attention The police suspected that Saarilammi had fallen into the harbor basin, but the search had to be ended without results.

In October 2018, a port worker in Miiduranta noticed a vague "myth" next to the pier He reported his discovery to the port captain, who alerted the police to the scene.

The body was examined for almost a month before the police said they had identified it as Saarilamme with a DNA test It is believed that the body drifted across Tallinn Bay for about ten kilometers.

The Tallinn police believe that Saarilammi fell into the sea at a point that is covered by surveillance cameras in the downtown harbor area The mystery of the disappearance was not opened in more detail.

- However, it is a fact that it was an unfortunate accident, and there does not seem to be any crime involved in the case, Saarilammi's good friend told Iltalehte in November 2018 - This was a sad, terrible thing, but fortunately it has now come to an end.

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