Ismo Kumpulainen disappeared from Riihimäki, the police suspect a crime

In the year 2000 missing rally enthusiast Ismo Kumpulainen there has been a big turn in the case.

The police are suspiciousthat Kumpulainen has become the victim of a murder. The case has previously been under investigation by the police as a missing person.

Ilta-Sanomat published about Kumpulainen’s disappearance a big deal at the end of March this year. After the story was published, the investigation was activated and facts have come to the fore that, according to the police, there is now reason to suspect a crime in Kumpulainen’s case.

Several people have been spoken to and questioned in the investigation, which was revived in the spring. Kumpulainen was known in recent years, especially among rally enthusiasts.

Until now, the strongest line of investigation in the case had been considered to be Kumpulainen’s self-inflicted disappearance. Now the police have reason to suspect a crime in the case. The police are silent about the crime.

It has been more than 24 years since the disappearance of the family man Kumpulainen. He was 32 years old at the time of his disappearance.

The police according to Kumpulainen would have had problems and disputes with some people.

According to the police, there have also been contradictions in the previously reported cases of Kumpulainen’s disappearance compared to the information it has now received in its recent investigations.

Kumpulainen has previously been reported to have disappeared completely unexpectedly from the sauna of the Riihimäkä repair garage. The disappearance was preceded by a return trip by ship from the 2000 Swedish World Rally Championship.

The police are sure that Kumpulainen has returned from Sweden to Finland at that time. It is also considered certain that Kumpulainen would have been at the repair garage in Riihimäki on Monday, February 14, 2000.

Previously, it has been reported that there would have been only one other man besides Kumpulainen in the premises of the repair garage at the time in question. It has been said that the man in question was also at the World Rally Championship in Sweden with Kumpulainen, watching the race.

At the beginning of the 2000s, the police already had the idea that a crime might be involved in the disappearance. However, this line of inquiry withered rather quickly. For years, the case was considered a voluntary disappearance.

It was suspected that the motive for the possible self-inflicted disappearance was due to Kumpulainen’s desire to escape his creditors or to “start a new life” in general due to, for example, possible interpersonal problems.

According to the police, even on the basis of recent information, there are no clear indications that Kumpulainen wanted to start a new life abroad, for example, or that he died as a result of an illness.

The police hope that those who may know something about Ismo Kumpulainen’s disappearance will report it by email to [email protected] or by calling the hotline number 0295437746.