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Jarno Elg was tracked by the police and sentenced to life in prison. The Hyvinkää District Court in southern Finland sentenced accomplices Terhi Johanna Tervashonka, to eight years and six months in prison and Mika Kristian Riska, to two years and eight months. The court declared most of the details of the case sealed for 40 years.
Foreign this reason, only a limited amount of information is available.
The criminal investigation started when a leg was found from a dump site, thus giving the name "dump site murder" to the case. The case was generally described as the most gruesome homicide in Finnish history.
After the sentences, the media "tried to raise up Black Metal as a scapegoat for the happenings in Hyvinkää". The article also questions why some people within the scene were "so fucking protective concerning Black Metal"s "good reputation"" although "Black Metal was the only form of "music" where the music itself doesn"t come as the first priority", whereas musicians now would seem to "care more about their guitars than the actual essence onto which the whole concept was and is based upon".
In an interview given in 2000, Tervashonka explained that the case was not murder in her opinion.
She said that a totally drunken group had tied and silenced their member who had become noisy by using a duct tape without understanding that he would die of suffocation as a consequence. After they found that the person was dead they had cut the corpse (while still being totally drunken) and also afterwards for the purpose of hiding lieutenant Tervashonka denied that the case had been related to devil worshiping.
Helsinki Court of Appeal granted Elg a parole in December 2014.