This week the All Points North podcast looks at the Ulvila homicide, which has been in and out of the headlines in Finland for some 17 years. Widow Anneli Auer was twice convicted, and then acquitted of the killing.
That was not the last word. Lurid tales of satanic sexual abuse were told by three of her four children, and Auer and her then-boyfriend were convicted on those charges.
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But now the children have said they want to retract their testimony, and Auer wants her conviction annulled.
We asked Yle crime reporter Tuomas Rimpiläinen if there were doubts about the conviction at the time. He said the trial was not exactly an open book, even for crime reporters at the time.
"During the trial three psychology experts witnessed, and they all said that the children's accounts are unreliable, but still the court thought that there were parts of the stories that actually were reliable," said Rimpiläinen.
"And that's a big problem because if three individual experts were witnesses and the court still goes in the other direction, that raises questions. Back then we didn't know any of this because the trial was completely secret."
Given these issues, we wondered if there might be a problem with confidence in the Finnish system. Rimpiläinen said it was a distinct possibility, and there may be lessons for Finnish police and prosecutors to learn.
"I really think that courts need to make better public statements about what kind of evidence their verdicts are based on., And that's a big, big problem in Finland—that courts make these public statements that actually are very short and don't tell anything about the evidence that the verdicts are based on."
Election compass launch
We also take a sneak peek at the election compass, which Yle publishes in English, Finnish, Russian and Sámi ahead of elections on 2 April.
Yle Producer Ville Laakso explained what the compass is and how it works.
"Yle has sent all the candidates a list of questions and many of them have answered and so, in the election compass service the user gets to answer the same questions and then the machine will tell you which of the candidates agree with you the most and who agrees with you the least," said Laakso.
This year the compass will include new elements including a section on the parties, as party lists are an important part of the electoral system in Finland.
We also look at a fuss over schools coverage, and ask for listener experiences about the Finnish education system.
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This week's show was presented by Egan Richardson and Zena Iovino. The sound engineer was Joonatan Kotila.
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