Tadeusz Grzesik

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Tadeusz Grzesik
Born1960 (age 63–64)
Wola Jachowa, Polish People's Republic
Other names"Strawberry"
"Killer"
Conviction(s) Murder
Criminal penalty Life imprisonment
Details
Victims8–20+
Span of crimes
1991–2007
Country Poland
State(s) Świętokrzyskie, Lublin, Silesia, Lesser Poland, Łódź, allegedly others as well
Date apprehended
2007

Tadeusz Grzesik (born 1960) is a Polish strawberry grower and serial killer, also known as "Strawberry" and "Killer". He is the leader of a gang which went on to be called the "Moneychangers Gang", or (more precisely) "Gang of Moneychangers Killers". [1] [2] [3]

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Early life

Tadeusz Grzesik was born in Wola Jachowa, where his parents ran a farm. He had four siblings. He studied at a vocational school to become a fitter, but did not graduate. According to his own account, he then became a carpenter who worked in the Wujek and Makoszowy coal mines, before beginning work in the Construction Combination in Katowice.

Grzesik is married, and has two children.

Murders

Triple murder in Cedzyna

The most likely first murders Grzesik took part in were on September 19, 1991, in Cedzyna, when he participated in the shooting of three Ukrainian citizens in a parking lot - two men and a woman. He raped the woman before killing her. Biological traces belonging to two men were secured from her body, but the case was discontinued in 1993. In 2001, the investigation was resumed and suspicions fell on Janusz Trela's gang, but the trail proved false, and the case remained unsolved for 18 years. The breakthrough came when Grzesik was arrested in 2007 and he took a DNA test, making it possible to connect him to the murders in Cedzyna. The second secured DNA was traced to Stanisław T. However, he did not outlive the trial, as he had committed suicide during his imprisonment in the main prison of Piotrków Trybunalski. In addition to the traces, evidence in the case was also the testimony of gunsmith Jacek P., who admitted that in 1991 he had crafted a Beretta for Grzesik, the same weapon with which the murders were carried out. Grzesik was legally sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in 2013 in connection with the three murders and rape. [4]

Suspected murder in Machowa

The prosecutor's office is investigating Grzesik's possible involvement in the murder of a currency dealer in 1992.

Wola Jachowa disappearance

Grzesik is also suspected of murdering a resident of his hometown in August 1997, who was possibly killed because of debt-related issues. The victim's body was never found. [5]

Double murder in Cedzyna

Another case in which Grzesik is suspected is the murder of two men from Radlin, Łukasz S. and Mariusz J., both of whom were shot in front of a bar on July 3, 1998. [6]

Skorzeszyce murder

Grzesik is also suspected of another crime - the murder of 17-year-old Roman K. on the night between July 18 and 19, 1998. The teen was returning from a discotheque when he was brutally murdered, with two of his friends being brutally beaten up and left requiring hospitalization. His body was found in the morning of July 19. [7]

Niestachów murder

Grzesik is also suspected of murdering Res-Bud driver Andrzej K., who was shot on April 30, 1999.

Krajno-Parcelach murder

On June 20, 1999, Krystyna M. was murdered. She, just like Andrzej K., was a worker at Res-Bud who was shot. Grzesik is suspected of being involved in her murder.

'Bureaucrats Gang' murders

Grzesik, together with Wojciech W. and Jacek P., created a gang that between 2005 and 2007 attacked owners of currency exchange offices. They were convicted in 2015. [8] The offenses for which they were convicted are the following:

However, according to the prosecutor's office, these killings do not constitute all the crimes committed by the gang. In 2016, Grzesik and Wojciech W. were accused of a double murder in Ostrów. On November 16, 2006, they allegedly attacked Antoni B., the owner of a currency exchange office who was killed with a sub-machine gun. They also had shot at two employees of the exchange office, one of them dying as a result of his wounds, while the other suffered long-term damage to his health. [10] Further allegations made by the prosecutor's office concerns murders in Przeworsk. The perpetrators were said to have killed the owner of an exchange office, Zygmunt G. and his partner, Maria P. [10] On January 12, 2007, Grzesik, along with accomplice Adam M., according to the prosecutor's office, attacked an exchange office in Dębica and attempted to kill the owner, but failed to do so as a result of their weapons jamming. [10]

According to Gazeta Wyborcza, the group had also committed various crimes in Daleszyce, Kolbuszowa, Domaszowice, Cedzyna, Sanok, Makoszyn, Miąsowa and other towns. [11]

In the media

Grzesik and his accomplices were killed in the 13th episode in the third season of the hit Polish TV series Pitbull; some details of the crimes committed were changed for the scenario. [12]

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References

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  2. ↑ "A gang of bureaucrats accused of further murders. They acted in an absolute way" (in Polish). kielce.wyborcza.pl. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  3. ↑ "Kielce's "Bureaucrats Gang" with new charges. Five murders" (in Polish). echodnia.eu. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  4. ↑ ""Human life means nothing to them." Life for members of the "Moneychangers Gang"". TVN24.pl. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  5. ↑ "Coming partners of the "Bureaucrats Gang". The group could have killed up to 20 people" . Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  6. ↑ ""Bureaucrats Gang" with new charges. 14 suspects" (in Polish). Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  7. ↑ "Retained life sentences for members of the "Bureaucrats Gang"". RMF FM. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  8. ↑ "They killed people to see if they had money. "Gang of killers" members sentenced to life imprisonment" . Retrieved 9 January 2018.
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