Virpi Butt

Lucrezia Francesca Pandora Butt (formerly Virpi Sanna Sinikka Butt ; August 9, 1972 – November 22, 2021) was a Finnish murderer.

She first became known as Timantti in the 1993-94 season of the television series Gladiaattorit.

Anttonen and Butt had been dating for some time before his murder in May 2002.

Anttonen was spending an evening with Butt and Janne Hyvönen, a friend of Butt's, at the restaurant Sputnik in Tampere.

At the end of the evening, the trio ended up going to Butt's apartment.

Early in the morning, Hyvönen stabbed Anttonen in the back and sawed his head off.

Butt picked up his head.

Butt and Hyvönen dragged Anttonen's body into the bathroom and cleaned the apartment.

The killing took place at Butt's home, and two of her minor children were present.

A two-year-old boy slept in the same room where Anttonen was killed.

The 16-year-old boy was sleeping in a walk-in wardrobe, but at some point he went to see what was happening in the room and also saw the body.

Hyvönen told the court that he cut off Anttonen's legs and put them in the oven with spices and salt, after which he ate Anttonen's meat.

Butt did not participate in the cannibalism, although she later tried to offer Anttonen's meat as "chops" to an acquaintance.

The rest of the dismembered body was packed into cardboard boxes and put on the balcony because they had begun to smell.

In the morning, a friend of Hyvönen was called and his car was used to transport the cardboard boxes, which Hyvönen and Butt claimed to contain garbage, into trash cans in different parts of Tampere.

Butt and Hyvönen originally wanted the boxes to be taken farther away to Nokia, but the driver did not agree to this.

The driver, who denied knowing what was in the boxes, was later charged with accessory to crime.

After the murder, Butt had presented 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 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 Anttonen's teeth by beating them with a knife, which Hyvönen denied in court.

Virpi Butt was sentenced in Tampere District Court and Turku Court of Appeal to life imprisonment for the dismemberment of 26-year-old Arto Malinen in Pirkkala on Midsummer 2003.

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.

On Midsummer's Eve of 2003, Janne Hyvönen stayed to take care of Butt's three-year-old child while she was getting alcoholic beverages to celebrate Midsummer.

On her way, Butt ran into Arto Malinen, a 26-year-old man who was likewise celebrating.

They drunk at a bar until closing time and took a taxi to Malinen's apartment in Pirkkala.

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.

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 victim's fingertips to prevent identification.

The perpetrators then tried to run over Malinen's head in the yard with a car, but the attempt failed, because the head always slipped to the side.

A woman who had accompanied the party to the apartment told the court that Butt had threatened to kill her as well, which Butt denied.

The woman informed the police, which led to the arrest of Butt and Hyvönen.

At first, the emergency center did not believe that a dismemberment had occurred and dismissed the first call as a joke.