Antti Veikko Ilmari Siltavuori (29 October 1926 – 9 March 2012), better known as Jammu Siltavuori or Jammu-setä ("Uncle Jammu"), was a Finnish murderer and sexual offender.

Early life

Veikko Siltavuori was born in

Vaasa Vaasa (; sv, Vasa, , Sweden ), in the years 1855–1917 as Nikolainkaupunki ( sv, Nikolajstad; literally meaning "city of Nicholas),

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. Information about his early life is very limited. According to some sources his childhood was very hard and complicated, because of his alcoholic father who beat Veikko very much. He was bullied in school and he was called a ''weasel'' because of his dirty clothing.

Crimes

Siltavuori became well known in Finland when he

murder Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification (jurisprudence), justification or valid excuse (legal), excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. ("The killing of another person wit ...

ed two eight-year-old girls, Päivi-Maria Hopiavuori and Tanja Johanna Pirinen in 1989.https://hymy.fi/uutiset/tiesitko-taman-jammu-sedasta-pitkaakin-pitempi-rikoslista-ennen-lapsimurhia/, publisher=hymi He burned the bodies shortly after. He had picked up both girls into his car from

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, a neighbourhood in

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, on 3 March 1989. Prior to this, he had been convicted of raping a five-year-old girl, sexual harassment, and attempted murder. He had previously been sentenced to life imprisonment in the 1960s, but was later paroled. He had also built a jail complete with cells, barred windows and small toilets in Paltamo,

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Media publicity

The murders led to widespread media publicity, during which hundreds of letters to the editor were written about Siltavuori. An interview with Siltavuori was published in the April 1991 issue of ''Rikosposti'', in which he said that he was the most hated person in Finland. There were demands for the

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for him. Antti Siltavuori, an industrial designer from

Kirkkonummi Kirkkonummi (; sv, Kyrkslätt, , Sweden ) is a Municipalities of Finland, municipality of inhabitants () in southern Finland. The literal meaning of the words "''Kirkkonummi''" and "''Kyrkslätt''" in English language, English is "church heath". ...

, was the target of a telephone terror because of his name, and an old man was beaten in a restaurant in Helsinki because he resembled Jammu in appearance. The protesters' signs read, among other things: "A sex offender does not get better in prison. Experts in favor of involuntary treatment."

Sentences

For the two murders in 1989, Veikko Siltavuori was sentenced to 15 years in

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with the possibility of

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after 10 years, because a mental health examination legally found him to be partially insane. If that had not been the case, Siltavuori would have been again sentenced to

life imprisonment Life imprisonment is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted people are to remain in prison for the rest of their natural lives or indefinitely until pardoned, paroled, or otherwise commuted to a fixed term. Crimes for ...

. After 10 years elapsed, his first and second parole hearings in a

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were unsuccessful. After he served one more year in jail, the Prison Court released him on strictly supervised parole on 31 January 2000, on his third parole hearing. However, he was immediately involuntary committed to the

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mental hospital in

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for criminal-psychiatric reasons. The involuntary commitment was reaffirmed in 2007 by the administrative court of Kuopio, on the basis that if he was released, he would be a serious security risk.

Death

While imprisoned, Siltavuori was attacked by another inmate, which caused Siltavuori to spend his final years in a wheelchair. He died in March 2012 at the age of 85 in Kuopio."Juuri nyt: Jammu-setä kuoli"
''Alibi.fi''.

References

Literature

* Markkula, Hannes: ''Kuusi suomalaista murhaa''. 1996. {{DEFAULTSORT:Siltavuori, Jammu 1926 births 2012 deaths 20th-century Finnish criminals Finnish male criminals People from Vaasa Finnish murderers of children Finnish people convicted of murder People convicted of murder by Finland People convicted of child sexual abuse Violence against women in Finland