Steen Christensen is a danish criminal, who at the time of the murders, was serving a 12 year sentence in a danish prison for previous crimes including bank robberies and rape. He was let out for a 12 hour unguarded vacation, and he escaped to Finland.

On the night of 22. October, 1997, at around 3 am, Christensen robbed the night worker at Hotel Palace in Helsinki. He tied up the worker, and robbed the cash till. While exiting the hotel, he apologised to the worker. He only received a few thousand finnish marks as the loot, and ran into a police squad on his escape. The police stopped him, and informed him there had been a robbery. When the other police from the pair went in the car to radio for more information about the robber, Christensen took out a gun, and forced both of the officers to lay down on the ground face down. 

He proceeded to execute both of the officers from behind, in cold blood. The officers colleagues found them a few minutes later. An unprecedented, nationwide manhunt ensued. Christensen managed to escape the police cordon around Helsinki, into Hämeenlinna. He signed into Hotel Vaakuna 6 hours after the murders, using a fake name. By morning news, there had been no arrests made, and there was extensive media coverage. It took the police 3 days to find him, and arrest him when he was leaving Hotel Vaakuna, after receiving tips from the general public. 

Christensen plead guilty to the murders, without even trying to defend his case. He was sent to a psychiatric evaluation, which had to be cancelled because he didn't co-operate with any of the testing. In 1998, he was sentenced to life in prison for two murders. He was transferred to Denmark to serve his time. He married a finnish woman in 2000 while in prison, and they had a child. 

The case was very unusual at the time, and still is, given the cold blooded nature of it, and the fact that it's very rare for finnish police officers to get killed in line of duty. 

He is still serving his sentence in Denmark, and was denied parole in 2025. 

A finnish rap artist Steen1, started his career with the nickname Steen Christensen, which he later changed to Steen1, to avoid further controversy. 
He released a song called "100% vihaa ja väkivaltaa(100% hate and violence)", which features a verse "Steen Christensen itäpuolen sankari, sille pitäis antaa kytäntappomitali" (Steen Christensen hero of the east, he should receive a cop killing medal). 


  
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-vT-nBlbJ\_c&pp=ygUgMTAwJSB2aWhhYSBqYSB2w6RraXZhbHRhYSBseXJpY3M%3D](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-vT-nBlbJ_c&pp=ygUgMTAwJSB2aWhhYSBqYSB2w6RraXZhbHRhYSBseXJpY3M%3D)

Steen Christensen, danish policemurderer