Finland’s Supreme Court has agreed to reopen the notorious Anneli Auer murder case following fresh allegations that the woman’s husband may have been killed in some kind of satanic ritual. Ms Auer, who was acquitted last July of killing her husband in 2006, may now have to face court again.
Auer was sentenced to life in prison in November 2010 after her husband was found dead at their home in Ulvila. She was however freed on appeal last year after a Vaasa court ruled that there was not enough evidence to uphold the murder conviction.
In a bizarre turn of events, she was arrested again along with a former boyfriend the following September and charged with sexual abuse and violent crimes for separate events allegedly occurring between 2004 and 2009.
Meanwhile, prosecutors appealed July’s acquittal with documents suggesting that Auer’s husband was killed as part of a satanic ritual and that there were incidences of animal sacrifices and skin cutting in the family. Auer denies all the allegations and claims the notion of Satanism was concocted by her children and is pure fantasy.