Jarno Elg

Who is Jarno Elg?

Jarno Sebastian Elg is a Finnish Satanist, who was sentenced to life in prison for murdering a 23-year-old man, eating some of the body parts and instigating others to participate in a ritual that included torturing the victim while listening to songs from The Cainian Chronicle album by Norwegian black metal band Ancient on November 21, 1998, in Hyvinkää. Elg's partners were 17-year-old Terhi Johanna Tervashonka from Järvenpää, 20-year-old man from Mäntsälä and a 16-year-old boy from Kerava.

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. It was said that the three people "were strongly influenced by Satanism". The court declared most of the details of the case sealed for 40 years. For 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.