2006 Ulvila homicide case

In December 2015, the acquittal became permanent, when the Supreme Court of Finland denied the prosecution's appeal.

According to one hypothesis from police, the murder was revenge for Lahti's actions as a HR director in a company that had laid many people off.

[1] In August 2008, the case received a new chief investigator, and the police started to focus on the phone call that Auer had made to the emergency services.

[3][4] In May 2011, the Supreme Court of Finland ordered the National Bureau of Investigation to hand over information about the operation to Auer, withholding the names of officers and some other details.

The official theory from the police was that she had finished Lahti off during the phone call and then staged the crime scene.

[7] In December 2013, the Satakunta District Court again convicted Auer in a 2–1 ruling, and gave her a life sentence.

According to the verdict, it had not been proven that Auer had staged the crime scene, and the presence of an outside perpetrator could not be ruled out based on the evidence.

The court did not accept the prosecution's claim that the phone call to the emergency services contained parts that Auer had pre-recorded.

By pre-recording the sounds of the killing before the phone call, Auer would have had more time to stage the crime scene.

[9] The defense team rebutted the claim with their own expert statement, which stated that the tape had no evidence of tampering, and that an outside person can be heard on it.