165:("The woman is my fate"). Auervaara - now called Karnas - continued his deception and was charged with manslaughter after one of his victims had committed suicide. In 1956 he was sentenced to forced labour as a dangerous criminal, but he was only charged with attempted betrayal. According to criminologist Timo Kautto, the events that had led to suicide were seen by the court as so grave that Auervaara had to serve his sentence in isolation. The court viewed Auervaara as a danger to public safety.
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Parvilahti kept the content of this document to himself, but mentions having wondered how bad
Auervaara's handwriting and grasp of the Finnish grammar was, even though he had made successful contacts by exchanging letters. In return for the writing work, Auervaara cleaned Parvilahti's cell and gave him cigars and flower bouquets. According to Parvilahti, the bouquets came from women Auervaara had deceived, who "could not forget their charmer - as the love of a woman is forgiving!"
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own, or playing a hotel piano where he claimed the hotel entrance hall and piano belonged to a mansion he owned. He was sentenced for deceiving twenty women. Of the women who responded to his announcements, Auervaara chose those who he thought were the wealthiest and easiest to deceive as his victims. Many of his victims had an academic education. The trials related to the event caused great public attention in the press in the 1940s and the 1950s.
150:"one of those vain and delusional psychopaths, whose stamina and abilities are not enough to satisfy their need of advertising themselves, but who instead in their attempt to seek the shortest road to expansion, turn to crime and whose mythomania comes more from a need to advertise themselves than a real need for monetary value."
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Auervaara sought women as his victims with newspaper announcements and tried to steal everything he could from them. He strengthened his contacts with staged photographs. Auervaara would for example have his picture taken in a pilot's uniform, in front of some unknown person's car claiming it was his
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On his way to mental health examination, Auervaara escaped to Sweden, where he continued his deception. He was soon caught again and was sent to prison, where he attempted to escape three times, failing each time. After serving his punishment he was sent back to
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in his cell, he was often asked to write applications and other documents for other prisoners, which he always declined. However, he mentions having agreed to write out the defence document
Auervaara had designed for himself: he was interested to see how the charming conman would defend himself.
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in autumn 1944. According to
Parvilahti, Auervaara was a "diminutive, rather worthless-looking man", so "in regard of his appearance, it is hard to believe he achieved such success with the ladies". On the other hand, according to Parvilahti, Auervaara was "constantly happy and had his way with
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for the first time already at the age of 16. In 1935 he changed his surname from
Jansson to Auervaara and started his career as conman, deceiving women. In his deception he used multiple false names. He was sent to prison multiple times, for a total of 26 years.
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himself. He is thought to have hanged himself because he was afraid of going to prison again. Some people think that other criminals, embittered towards
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unit of the police published his photograph and an announcement asking his victims to report themselves in the country's largest newspapers. Later, the justice psychiatrist diagnosed
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