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Myla was found naked from the waist down with dozens more stab wounds, many inflicted after she was already deceased.

In fact, the forensic specialists described the body as being hacked at post-mortem, a treatment none of the other victims had received.

So, you know, this particularly heinous attack on Myla was noted by the investigators, and they wondered if she was the target.

In the wake of the discovery of the teen's bodies, the police had basically ruined the crime scene.

They didn't put up any crime tape, and random campers, searchers, and search dogs just trampled through this crime scene, ruining basically any chance of finding the culprit's footprints.

And during their search, police also realized that several of the victim's personal belongings were missing.

Some of these items included their wallets, Myla's clothing, Neal's shoes, and Seppo's leather jacket.

Most confusingly, the attacker had stolen the keys to the victim's mopeds, but both vehicles were left behind.

I believe those keys were never even recovered, too.

Neal's shoes were actually later found about 500 meters from the campsite, pretty far away, vaguely hidden along the lakeside, but the rest of the campers' items were never seen again.

Additionally, the police were unable to immediately locate the murder weapons, including the knife or whatever the blade was used in the murder, or the blunt object, which they believed may have been a large rock.

What was odd near the tent was a pillowcase rolled up and held with an elastic band.

They found traces of blood and semen on it, but testing could not confirm who these fluids belonged to.

This time frame of the murder was determined based on the eyewitness sighting of a group of boys who had actually been across the lake birdwatching that morning.

At around 6 a.m.

in the morning, some other boys spotted the 14's tent collapse and a mysterious man with long blonde hair.

They saw him walking away from the campground.

Through eyewitness accounts, the police believe the man was about 5'8", and he was somewhere in his 20s.

After the bodies were removed from the scene, investigators were able to crudely reconstruct the tent and confirm that the murderer did not enter the tent to attack the teens.

Instead, the assailant actually slashed the tent ties and stabbed and bludgeoned the victims through the fabric wall of the tent.