 Koivunen claimed that the girls were murdered outside of his presence and that the unnamed man had admitted to battering them to death.Koivunen's wife was also interviewed, and told police that Koivunen came home on the night of August 15 and told her that he had shown two girls and a boy around the city.When he and his wife read the magazine about the disappearance of Laiho and Raijas, Koivunen noted that they looked the same as the girls he had been with.