Blood from one of the girls killed in the Bodom Lake murders in 1960 has reportedly been found on the shoes of the suspect Nils Gustafsson, who was arrested earlier this year.
According to YLE Television News, a pair of shoes found at the site during the initial investigation were sent to a specialist laboratory in Britain for DNA analysis.
No DNA was found on the shoes or other objects at the crime scene that was not from one of the four taking part in the fateful camping trip.
At the time of the killings, Gustafsson’s shoes had been hidden; according to the TV News item on Wednesday evening, the police believe that the blood evidence suggests that the person who hid the shoes after the crime was Gustafsson himself. Investigators also say that the DNA evidence conflicts with Gustafsson’s story. The suspected motive for the crime was jealousy.
The police are not confirming or denying the report on the DNA. Tero Haapala of the National Bureau of Investigation told Helsingin Sanomat late on Wednesday that the police would not comment on details of the investigation at this stage.
The triple murder took place 44 years ago at Bodom Lake in Espoo, where a group of four teenagers - two 15-year-old girls and two 18-year-old boys - were on a camping trip.
Nils Gustafsson was the only one in the group to have survived. The others were found murdered.
Police arrested Gustafsson in April this year after extensive re-examination of the evidence, and his interrogations are continuing.
Gustafsson, now 62, has maintained his innocence.
