117:. The next day, Malinen and Butt continued drinking at a bar until they were forced to leave because it turned out that Butt had been banned from the establishment. On the street, they were joined by a young man who wanted to buy drugs, and Butt suggested moving to Malinen's apartment. The young man lost his temper when there were no promised drugs at Malinen's apartment, and a dispute arose, during which Malinen asked both Butt and the man to leave. The argument ended with Butt stabbing Malinen ten times in the back with a kitchen knife. Butt called Hyvönen, and they dismembered Malinen's body and robbed the victim.
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expression on his face became distorted. In court, Hyvönen described his act: "I just watched when it changed its expression. It started smiling. I was sitting in the kitchen myself, drinking liquor and laughing." According to Butt, Hyvönen had removed
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Hyvönen told the court that he cut off
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The investigation into the death of Arto
Malinen also brought to light the murder of the 29-year-old programmer Kari Pekka Anttonen, who had disappeared over a year earlier. Anttonen and Butt had been dating for some time before his murder in May 2002. Anttonen was spending an evening with Butt and
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Anttonen's head to other people. As a motive for presenting the severed head, Butt told the court that she presented the head because she wanted the crime to be revealed to the police. Hyvönen had finally put Anttonen's head in a pot to fry and watched how the
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she had taken during the 1990s had affected her hormonal balance, thus resulting in violent behavior. She asked for a reduced sentence, which the court denied. The court ordered Hyvönen and Butt to pay over 100,000 euros in compensation to the families of the victims, and both were sentenced to
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Butt later told in court that she had first stripped
Malinen naked and then sawed his head off. The victim's organs were then disposed into a bag, a bucket and the toilet. As a justification for this, she said that she wanted to prevent the internal organs from smelling. Hyvönen had cut off the
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accepted Butt's parole request in August 2017 and set her release date in late 2018, when she has been in prison for about 15.5 years. According to the overall forensic psychiatric assessment, Butt had a high risk of committing a violent crime again, so the
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At first, the emergency center did not believe that a dismemberment had occurred and dismissed the first call as a joke. After the investigation began, Anttonen's body was searched for in Nokia's
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Hyvönen came to the trial wearing the clothes of the murdered victim. The perpetrators requested and were granted access to mental state examinations, where they were found fully mentally capable. Butt claimed that the
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