Finland - Mother and three children, found killed in house fire, Savonlinna, 6 December 2025.

[bimminglemur]

YLE: The police investigate the suspected family death in the Savonlinnan fire scene: a 22-year-old man is suspected of killing his two children and a young woman 8.12.2025
IltaSanomat: Suspected: a 22-year-old father killed a mother and three children in Savonlinnas - his actions in the interrogation room 8.12.2025
Helsinki Times: Man suspected of killing partner and three children in Savonlinna fire 8.12.2025

Rescue services received a call about a house fire around 8 in the morning of Finland’s Independence Day. When fire rescue arrived on site the house was already fully engulfed, and there was nothing to do to save the building.

A woman (20 years old) and her three children (3 year old twins and 1 year old) were registered at the address, and according to info from Yle they had been living there for only two months.

According to witnesses the fire spread quickly in the house. There are also witnesses who told police they heard a man yelling [angrily] and a woman screaming for help.

Police in Southeastern Finland suspect a 22 year old man of the killing of the mother and her children, and destruction of property. The suspect is the father of the children.

According to Helsinki Times the suspect has a long criminal record of previous crimes:

• Conviction from earlier in 2025 of assault of the woman who died in the fire. The conviction handled cases of assaults happening in 2022 and 2023 of him hitting the victim in the face and once trying to drag her forcefully into a car.
• Driving without a licence and endangering traffic safety. He was convicted of these in the same proceedings.
• Convicted in 2023 for raping a 14 year old girl and for aggravated sexual abuse of a child. Offences occurred in 2019 when he was 16 years old.
• 2020 he received a suspended sentence for robbery, assault, unlawful threats and concealing stolen property.

 

[Sarahlou]

There's a lot to unpack there. Why was he even free to allegedly do this?!
Those poor kids and their mum though

 

[Rikissa]

From the local newspaper Itä-Savo, translated into English:

Tällainen rikostausta tulipalon sytyttämisestä epäillyllä miehellä on – Esitetään vangittavaksi

Nuoren naisen perhe on aloittanut keräyksen hautajaiskuluja varten.

www-ita--savo-fi.translate.goog

There is an interview with the dead woman's father.

 

[ReDReq]

There's a lot to unpack there. Why was he even free to allegedly do this?!
Those poor kids and their mum though

This is an issue with the law. He practically got out by fines from the most of his crimes. He was convicted on sexual assault of a minor for year and half (I personally think, the short sentence is the huge crime here.).
Unlike in the case of the sexual assault, he was younger than 16, which meant giving him suspended sentence of five months.

Also Finland has this ridiculous rule of "first time offender", meaning he gets out practically being incarcerated about half of the time, if even that.

In Finland, you have to be 16 to held accountable in the eyes of the law. So if you kill someone or anything, you get to walk free - but more often, you are placed under the care of CPS and have to see mental health care professionals.

 

[bimminglemur]

MTV Uutiset published an interview with Sara's (the victim's) father a couple of days ago:

"– I am sure that the fire was not an accident. The man suspected my daughter of cheating on him. I know my daughter and she definitely did not cheat on that man.
According to the father, his daughter and the man suspected of the arson had constant arguments. Recently, such an argument had arisen during a car trip when the couple was on their way to a friend's house in Sulkava.
– There, the man had told the friend that "something bad is going to happen soon". And now that bad thing has happened, what could be worse than this.
[...]
The father says he has no knowledge of any concrete threats. His daughter did not tell him everything, not even about the assaults on her, for which the man has been convicted.
[...]
– The neighbors said that when he got out (at the time of the fire), he said, "I hope the kids make it out of there," but he hadn't said a word about my daughter. It had to be intentional. The father says that he was visiting his family with his teenage son the night before the fire. At that time, the man had behaved very restlessly, according to the father.
– He was really restless, constantly circling around the backyard. Usually he wasn't like that, he just talked to us, but now he didn't say a word to me the whole evening. My son also said that he was really strange, the father says.
– And after the fire, there were plastic canisters in the yard. There had never been anything like that there before, I'm pretty sure of that"