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 of 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.
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 the Finnish 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 taken to the Niuvanniemi mental hospital in Kuopio for criminal-psychiatric reasons.[specify]
