Virpi Butt

Lucrezia Francesca Pandora Butt (formerly Virpi Sanna Sinikka Butt ; August 9, 1972 – November 22, 2021) was a Finnish murderer and suspected serial killer. She first became known as Timantti in the 1993-94 season of the television series Gladiaattorit.

Murders in Pirkkala Virpi Butt was sentenced in Tampere District Court and Turku Court of Appeal to life imprisonment for the dismemberment of 26-year-old Arto Malinen in Pirkkala on Midsummer 2003.

Murder of Kari Anttonen and cannibalism The investigation into the death of Arto Malinen also brought to light the murder of the 29-year-old programmer Kari Pekka Anttonen, who had disappeared over a year earlier. Anttonen and Butt had been dating for some time before his murder in May 2002. Anttonen was spending an evening with Butt and Janne Hyvönen, a friend of Butt's, at the restaurant Sputnik in Tampere. At the end of the evening, the trio ended up going to Butt's apartment. Early in the morning, Hyvönen stabbed Anttonen in the back and sawed his head off. Butt picked up his head. Butt and Hyvönen dragged Anttonen's body into the bathroom and cleaned the apartment. The killing took place at Butt's home, and two of her minor children were present. A two-year-old boy slept in the same room where Anttonen was killed. The 16-year-old boy was sleeping in a walk-in wardrobe, but at some point he went to see what was happening in the room and also saw the body.

Criminal investigation and trial At first, the emergency center did not believe that a dismemberment had occurred and dismissed the first call as a joke.

Hyvönen came to the trial wearing the clothes of the murdered victim. The court ordered Hyvönen and Butt to pay over 100,000 euros in compensation to the families of the victims, The Court of Appeal considered that there was a positive development in Butt's situation.

Butt was released on December 31, 2018. He died on May 25, 2025, aged 50.

After her release, Virpi Butt changed her name to Lucrezia Francesca Pandora Butt, moved to Kuru, a small town in western Finland and started working in a nationally operating company. She got married in the last years of her life. Butt's spouse filed for divorce in June 2021. The divorce did not take effect, as Butt died about six months later in November 2021. She was staying in Ghana before her death. Her cause of death remains undisclosed.

She remains the only suspect in the disappearance of the 16-year-old Raisa Räisänen in Tampere in 1999.