page_title: Murder of Susanne Lindholm
section_title: Evening events
hierarchical_section_title: Murder of Susanne Lindholm / Evening events
caption_attribution_description: Suomi: Mannerheimintie 48–50. Hotelli Hesperia Helsingissä vuonna 1978.
context_page_description: The murder of Susanne Lindholm is an unresolved 1976 Finnish homicide, in which 25-year-old airport clerk Susanne Helene Lindholm was found raped and killed in the cellar of her Käpylä home.
  Lindholm had spent a Saturday night, first in Haaga and later in the center of Helsinki, before ending up at Hotel Hesperia in Mannerheimintie. According to eyewitnesses, she was last seen outside the hotel at about 3 AM, after which she left to Helsinginkatu. After that, no definitive sighting of her could be confirmed. Therefore, it is not known whether she traveled about 4 km on foot or by car. On 8 August, a homeowner found Lindholm's body in a cellar on Sofianlehdonkatu 9 B the following afternoon at 1:30 PM. She was raped and strangled in a brutal manner.
  The crime received considerable publicity. Despite floods of clues and a few arrests by the police, the case remains unsolved. New investigations started in 2004 still led to an arrest, but there was insufficient evidence of the suspect's guilt.
context_section_description: Susanne Helene Lindholm (born December 9, 1950) worked as a baggage handler in the Helsinki Airport. At the end of the Saturday, she wanted to go out and party. As none of her colleagues wanted to join, she called a male friend in Haaga, whom gave her a ride to western Helsinki.
  Susanne started out her evening with her sister Camilla at a hotel in Haaga after 10 PM. From there, they went to the Helsinki Club, in central Helsinki. Susanne met a Norwegian man (b. 1947), who was on a business trip in Finland. Susanne and the man left Mannerheimintie to Hotel Hesperia, while her sister left their company at 1:20 at the Helsinki Railway Square. She traveled home on the last bus.
  At Hesperia, Lindholm visited the Norwegian's hotel room for a few minutes and enjoyed some whiskey. At 3 o'clock at night, Lindholm felt tired and had work the following day. Although she refused to bring the man home, they exchanged phone numbers and arranged a date for the next day.
caption: Hotel Hesperia in 1978. Currently owned by InterContinental Hotels Group
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