In Finland, Tommi Taneli Nakari, known as "the Mikkeli femicide," was a serial killer who murdered two of his partners and his mother between 1992 and 2008, but claimed not to remember committing these homicides.
Born in 1967, Nakari began his crime wave on August 17, 1992, when he and his wife traveled to Helsinki with money they had received from unemployment benefits. However, instead of reaching the Finnish capital, they ended up in Pieksämäki, where they spent the night drinking alcohol with acquaintances in several bars. When the places closed, they returned to their home in Mikkeli. At the train station, they met an ex-convict who was also heading to the same place, Mikkeli. Nakari and his wife started arguing for unknown reasons, and he left her alone to go to a nearby bar to continue drinking.
The next day, the man started to drink large amounts of beer, which he combined with Lorazepam pills, so he returned to his home in a very bad state but worried about his wife. Upon arriving, he found her there and she told him that she had been in prison and had been released the night before, but Nakari did not believe her explanation and began to chew several pills he had at home. The couple started to scold him for this attitude, and in a fit of rage, the criminal took a long-blade knife and stabbed his wife ten times, in such a way that the knife went through her from side to side. Then he cut her throat, covered the body with fabrics and towels, and fell asleep.
After a few days, Nakari recovered and when he woke up, he did not remember what had happened. Upon entering the room, he saw the walls splattered with blood and his wife's body on the floor. At that moment, he realized that he had killed her and attempted to commit suicide by cutting his wrists, but the bleeding stopped, so he washed in the bathtub.
After failing to hang himself in the closet, Nakari left the city and spent the rest of the week consuming alcohol and drugs in different places while the homicide remained a secret. The police arrested him in a deplorable condition and took him to his home, where the officers found the decomposing body of his wife. Nakari was transferred to the Legal Security and Medical Care Center, where he was diagnosed with a personality disorder, which allowed him to reduce his sentence from 12.4 to 8 years.
In September 1998 - he was released early - the murderer regained his freedom and returned to his mother's house, where he lived for several months. One day they argued about cleaning, and in another outburst of anger caused by his drunkenness, Nakari began to beat his mother until he threw her to the floor. Then, he took a kitchen knife and a pair of scissors, with which he stabbed the woman 19 times in the neck and face, then dragged the body to the bathroom, where he covered it with rags and towels, as he had done with his wife. When arrested, the criminal again affirmed that he remembered nothing, but the Mikkeli District Court sentenced him to 10.8 years in prison.
Nakari was released in June 2006 and returned to Mikkeli, where he met Anna-Emilia Simniceanu, 26 years old and from Jyväskylä. The young woman's family and friends warned her about the danger of her new boyfriend and the sentences he had, but she paid no attention and continued to see him, and even planned a vacation trip to India in the winter of 2008. On January 10, 2008, the couple rented a summer house in Mikkeli, where they planned to visit Nakari's relatives, but during the trip, they argued and while driving, Nakari took out a knife and slightly injured Simniceanu in the arm. Upon arriving at the house, he resumed the attack, managing to incapacitate her, as she fell to the ground and there he strangled her and left the body lying in the yard.
Simniceanu was supposed to return to her parents' house, and these, upon not returning and knowing about her partner's past, alerted the Jyväskylä police, which in turn requested the help of the Mikkeli force. On January 15, the young woman's body was found in the yard of the house, but there was no trace of Nakari, so an arrest warrant was issued against him. The killer remained at large until March, when he was arrested by the Kuopio police without offering resistance. Nakari was taken to trial and in 2009 he was sentenced to 14.5 years in prison, in addition to paying 16,000 euros in compensation to the family. The sentence was appealed automatically, but was later confirmed by the Eastern Finland Court.