List of Czech serial killers

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A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more people, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them. [1] [2] The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines serial killing as "a series of two or more murders, committed as separate events, usually, but not always, by one offender acting alone". [3] [4]

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Identified serial killers

NameNickname / AKAYears activeProven victimsPossible victimsStatusNotesRef
Martin Roháč 1568–157159N/AExecutedSoldier turned robber and serial killer with the alleged highest number of victims in the Czech lands. [5]
Kateřina of Komárov 1529–15331416ExiledNoblewoman who was infamous for the rumours of her mistreatment of the serfs on the estates of her spouse, which she tended during his absences. She was brought to trial in 1533 and convicted for the murder of 14 people, though she was allegedly the murderer of 30 people. She was sentenced to imprisonment in a tower in Prague Castle. [6]
Jaroslav and Dana Stodolovi 2001–200282Life imprisonmentPair of Czech-Slovak serial killers who robbed and murdered several retirees. Five people survived their attacks. In total, they were convicted of committing 17 serious crimes and both were sentenced to life imprisonment.
Petr Zelenka Heparin killer2006714Life imprisonmentMale nurse in Havlíčkův Brod who murdered seven patients by lethal injection. [7]
Václav Mrázek Death1951–19567SeveralExecutedConvicted of killing at least seven people. While primarily sexually-motivated, he also robbed his victims, and at trial, he was convicted of 127 total crimes. [8]
František Novotný 1888–189870ExecutedBought a farm from the widow of serial killer Josef Englich and moved in with his wife. He gradually poisoned six children who were born to them on the farm. Unexplained deaths eventually led to the divorce and Novotný remarried. He also poisoned the son from this marriage. The motive was his general hatred of children. [9]
Anton Schimak Moravian Babinský188760ExecutedA robber murderer who, after his release from Mírov Prison murdered and robbed six people and shot a Catholic priest in just a few days. [10]
Karel Kopáč
Ludvík Černý
Vladimír Kuna 		Orlík killers1991–199350Kopáč died in prison
Černý: Life imprisonment
Kuna released in 2013		Gang of serial killers who, between 1991 and 1993, killed five people (mostly businessmen) for monetary gain. One of the members committed a murder on his own and attempted another, but the victim in the latter attack survived.
Hubert Pilčík 1948–1951510+ExecutedActed as a conduit through the Iron Curtain who killed and robbed several people he was supposed to smuggle across the border. [11]
Ivan Roubal 1991–199453Died in prisonKilled for selfish reasons. He was not charged in the three murders because no bodies were found.
Ladislav Hojer 1978–198153ExecutedSexual murderer who committed murders during his trips around the country, making his capture much more difficult. He committed cannibalism on one of the victims. [12]
Oto Biederman 1993–199650Life imprisonmentMember of the "Kolín Gang", sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering 5 people. [13]
Josef Englich 188550ExecutedMarried on a farm in Komárov, where a widowed woman lived with her daughter, parents and grandparents. According to custom, he was supposed to pay them off and then house them in exchange and take care of them until they died. For financial reasons, he gradually poisoned all members of the household except his wife with arsenic. [14]
Ondrej Gažik
František Gaži
František Daniš		199050ImprisonmentPensioner killers. They killed their victims with objects they brought to the crime scene or found there. They also used punches and stomping on lying victims. The two attacked did not die until several days after the attack. Initially, all three perpetrators received a life sentence, Gaži and Daniš's sentence was reduced to 25 years. [15]
Martin Lecián Moravian horror192740ExecutedMurdered three policemen and a prison officer during escape attempt. He also attempted to kill seven other policemen.
Jaroslava Fabiánová The Czech Aileen Wuornos 1981–200340Life imprisonment
Jan Philopon Dambrovský 1572–158540ExecutedRoman Catholic priest and dean of the Olomouc chapter, responsible for the poisoning of four archbishops.
Svatoslav Štěpánek The Roudnice Monster1926–193632+ExecutedKilled at least one child and two women around Roudnice nad Labem between 1926 and 1936. Convicted of these crimes and two attempted murders, he was sentenced to death and subsequently executed in 1938.
Jan JanečekSerynek187031+ExecutedRobbed and murdered several people. Executed in 1871; last person to be publicly executed in Austria-Hungary. [16]
Jaroslav Malý198631Life imprisonmentAfter his release from prison, where he spent 30 months for two crimes of a violent nature, he decided to take revenge on society with one murder for every ten months of his "unjust" sentence and killed three random victims with a shot to the head. He was sentenced to death for his act, which was later commuted to life imprisonment. In prison, he likely helped a fellow inmate commit suicide. [17]
Karel Dvořák1959–197330Executed [18]
Miloslav Sláma 200130Life imprisonmentBrutally attacked and robbed elderly women. Four victims survived his attacks. [19]
Jiří Straka Spartakiad killer198530Released in 2004
David Virgulák Taxi killer201430Life imprisonmentKilled three taxi drivers. [20]
Jaroslav Hejna200330Life imprisonmentMurdered three people for selfish reasons. His friend Marek Dohnal helped him remove the bodies of the first two victims. [21]
Michal Semanský 2009–201230Life imprisonmentKilled during robberies in senior citizens' homes. Two of the victims were his relatives. [22]
Roman Horáček 1990–199130Murdered in 2006Murdered a doctor, his ex-wife and her sister in Litoměřice [23]
Karel Šťovíček 1998–202030Life imprisonmentCaused the death of a pensioner during a robbery; after release, murdered two women in sexual encounters [24]

Unidentified serial killers

NameYears activeProven victimsPossible victimsRegion where activeNotesRef
1990–1991 Prague murders1990–199130 Prague Killed 3 women in 1990 and 1991. Investigator of murders believes that the killer either left the country or died after the last murder. [25]

Suspected serial killers

NameNickname / AKAYears activeProven victimsPossible victimsStatusNotesRef
Bohumil Vacík 1994–199541Life imprisonmentIn 1994, he killed a guard in Sokolov. Year later he murdered three members of a Vietnamese family, including a six-year-old child and a pregnant woman. Police also believed he committed another murder which was not proven to him at court due to procedural error. [26]
Marie Fikáčková Sušice Monster1957–1960210+ExecutedNurse convicted for the killing of two newborn babies in Sušice in 1960. She claimed to have killed at least ten newborns between 1957 and 1960, and was executed by hanging in 1961.

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