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I mean, it makes a good story on paper, but...

The news just went wild with details on how Niels had slaughtered his best friend and his own girlfriend, and many weren't really convinced, though, at the end of the day.

They did not believe it, even after the evidence was evaluated by a second party in England.

Anna Pierziocchi, a shopkeeper in Espoo, told local press that she and many others believed that if Niels had truly committed the crime, he would have been arrested many years ago, which, yeah, kind of makes sense.

It seemed many locals felt the investigation into Neal's was simply a way for the investigators to claim they'd finally closed a case that had been left unsolved, due in large part to their own incompetence.

So it's almost them covering their own ass a little bit.

We're not even getting DNA evidence.

We're getting like blood splatter on the shoes.

That's really all that we're going on.

Yeah.

Which is kind of nuts.

Which was found 500 meters, not only from the campsite.

That means they were 500 meters from Neal's who was still at the campsite.

Right.

Yeah.

On the ground.

Yep.

As the hearings began, viewers noted that Niels appeared calm, if not mildly annoyed.

And the man had lived basically an entire lifetime, gotten married and had two children since that horrific night in 1968.

And now suddenly found himself defending himself against a crime for which he had never been considered a suspect before.