The
Lake Bodom murders were an infamous multiple homicide that took place in Finland in 1960. Lake Bodom is a small lake by the city of
Espoo, about 22 kilometres west of the country's capital, Helsinki. On the night of June 4, 1960, four teenagers were camping on the shores of Lake Bodom. Between 4am and 6am an unknown person or persons murdered three of them with a knife and blunt instrument wounding the fourth.
The murders inspired the kickass band Children of
Bodom.