Finland: life sentence for a satanic-ritual torture killing
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Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
none established over the victim
Organization
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Archive classification
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NOT AN AUTHORITY-ABUSE CASE. The victim was an acquaintance, not an adherent; the ritual framing is recorded as the crime's adjudicated character.
- Violent occult ideology or sacrifice
- Ritual, oath, or initiation
Evidence structure
Proceedings
1999-08-11 · conviction and life sentence
Hyvinkää District Court, Finland. On 11 August 1999 the Hyvinkää District Court convicted Jarno Elg of the November 1998 torture-murder, dismemberment and partial cannibalisation of a twenty-three-year-old man in what the court's findings described as a satanic ritual, and sentenced him to life. Two accomplices received eight years and six months and two years and eight months; charges against a sixteen-year-old were dropped after a finding of coercion.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- killing staged as a satanic ritual, with torture and mutilation
Cited record
Sources
- reference index case chronology Jarno Elg case overview (secondary; primary record sealed).
Reference account of the conviction and sentence.
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarno_Elg Corpus classification: reference-index; evidentiary role: case-chronology. SHA-256 03e10129e58f205d3c9c326b9b3fc60f843dc449b571e9012c9641d3ce2b43ce
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