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.{{cite book|author=Ronald M. Holmes |author2=Stephen T. Holmes |title = Contemporary Perspectives on Serial Murder | publisher = SAGE Publications | year = 1998 | page = 1 | access-date = June 15, 2016 |isbn = 0-7619-1421-8| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=0yfoJz6jHwkC&pg=PA1|quote=Serial murder is the killing of three or more people over a period of more than 30 days, with a significant cooling-off period between the murders [...] The baseline number of three victims appears to be most common among those who are the academic authorities in the field. The time frame also appears to be an agreed-upon component of the definition.}}{{Cite encyclopedia |last=Burkhalter Chmelir |first=Sandra |editor=Robert Kastenbaum |encyclopedia=Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying |title=Serial Killers |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_gx5214/is_2003/ai_n19132282?tag=content;col1 |year=2003 |publisher=Macmillan Reference USA/Thomson/Gale |volume=2 |location=New York |page=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090503121235/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_gx5214/is_2003/ai_n19132282/?tag=content;col1 |archive-date=May 3, 2009 |url-status=dead }} 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".{{sfn|Burkhalter Chmelir|2003|p=1}}{{Cite report|last=Morton|first=RJ|url=https://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/serial-murder/serial-murder-july-2008-pdf|format=PDF|title=Serial murder multi-disciplinary perspectives for investigators|publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation|year=2005|access-date=July 16, 2011|journal=|archive-date=June 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160615114825/https://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/serial-murder/serial-murder-july-2008-pdf|url-status=live |pages=4, 9}}

Identified serial killers

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Martin Roháč1568–157159N/AExecutedSoldier turned robber and serial killer with the alleged highest number of victims in the Czech lands.{{cite web |title=Martin Roháč - Popravy - Hrdelní právo |url=http://www.hrdelnipravo.cz/popravy/martin-rohac.html |website=hrdelnipravo.cz |access-date=1 August 2023 |language=cs}}
Kateřina of Komárov1529–15331416ExiledNoblewoman 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.{{cite web |last=Apfel |first=Viliam |title=Ďábel v brokátu: Bestiální zločiny urozené Kateřiny z Komárova|url=https://www.stoplusjednicka.cz/dabel-v-brokatu-bestialni-zlociny-urozene-kateriny-z-komarova |website=100+1 zahraniční zajímavost|access-date=1 August 2023 |language=cs}}
Jaroslav and Dana Stodolovi2001–200282Life 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 ZelenkaHeparin killer2006714Life imprisonmentMale nurse in Havlíčkův Brod who murdered seven patients by lethal injection.{{cite web |title="Heparin killer" gets life in prison |url=http://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/heparin-killer-gets-life-in-prison |website=Radio Prague International |access-date=1 August 2023 |date=22 February 2008}}
Václav MrázekDeath1951–19567SeveralExecutedConvicted 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.{{cite web |title=Václav Mrázek |url=https://www.serialkillers.cz/vaclav-mrazek |website=SerialKillers.cz |access-date=10 August 2023 |language=cs}}
František Novotný1888–189870ExecutedBought 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.{{cite web |last1=Mareš |first1=Jaroslav |title=Dům dvou sériových vrahů: Děsivý příběh vraha Novotného|url=https://badatele.net/dum-dvou-seriovych-vrahu-desivy-pribeh-vraha-novotneho/ |website=badatele.net |access-date=1 August 2023 |language=cs |date=29 October 2022}}
Anton SchimakMoravian 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.{{cite web |title=Vrah Schimak: Zabil tolik lidí, že už je nikdo nespočítá. Udala ho hostinská, když se probouzel |url=https://www.securitymagazin.cz/security/vrah-schimak-zabil-tolik-lidi-ze-uz-je-nikdo-nespocita-pak-utekl-do-lesa-udala-ho-hostinska-kdyz-se-probouzel-1404058874.html |website=securitymagazin.cz |access-date=1 August 2023 |language=cs}}
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 Pilčík1948–1951510+ExecutedActed as a conduit through the Iron Curtain who killed and robbed several people he was supposed to smuggle across the border.{{cite web |title=Oběti strýčka Huberta. Skutečnost vs. případ majora Zemana |url=http://www.rozhlas.cz/dvojka/historiezlocinu/_zprava/obeti-strycka-huberta--1582774 |website=Czech Radio |access-date=1 August 2023 |language=cs |date=10 August 2016}}
Ivan Roubal1991–199453Died in prisonKilled for selfish reasons. He was not charged in the three murders because no bodies were found.
Ladislav Hojer1978–198153ExecutedSexual murderer who committed murders during his trips around the country, making his capture much more difficult. He committed cannibalism on one of the victims.{{cite web |title=Ladislav Hojer |url=http://kriminalistika.eu/muzeumzla/hojer/hojer.html |website=kriminalistika.eu |access-date=1 August 2023|language=cs}}
Oto Biederman1993–199650Life imprisonmentMember of the "Kolín Gang", sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering 5 people.{{cite web |title=Případ Apollo aneb pět vražd Kolínského gangu |url=https://dvojka.rozhlas.cz/pripad-apollo-aneb-pet-vrazd-kolinskeho-gangu-6942784 |publisher=Czech Radio |access-date=1 August 2023 |language=cs |date=4 July 2018}}
Josef Englich188550ExecutedMarried 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.{{cite web |title=Dva vrazi a 12 mrtvých: Tohle je opravdový dům hrůzy! |url=https://www.ahaonline.cz/clanek/musite-vedet/202614/dva-vrazi-a-12-mrtvych-tohle-je-opravdovy-dum-hruzy.html |website=Ahaonline.cz |access-date=1 August 2023|language=cs}}
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.{{cite web |last1=Mayer |first1=Vladimír |title=Krimiseriál: Vraždy pro pár korun! |url=https://chrudimsky.denik.cz/cerna_kronika/krimi_koruny20070913.html |website=Chrudimský deník |access-date=2 August 2023 |language=cs |date=13 September 2007}}
Martin LeciánMoravian horror192740ExecutedMurdered three policemen and a prison officer during escape attempt. He also attempted to kill seven other policemen.
Jaroslava FabiánováThe Czech Aileen Wuornos1981–200340Life imprisonment
Jan Philopon Dambrovský1572–158540ExecutedRoman Catholic priest and dean of the Olomouc chapter, responsible for the poisoning of four archbishops.
Svatoslav ŠtěpánekThe 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.{{cite web |title=Jan Janeček |url=https://www.serialkillers.cz/jan-janecek |website=SerialKillers.cz |access-date=10 August 2023 |language=cs}}
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.{{cite web |title=Nejkrutější vrah v Česku: Nedá se nic dělat, děvenko, řekl a střelil matku novorozence do hlavy |url=https://www.blesk.cz/clanek/zpravy-krimi-zapomenute-zlociny/590687/nejkrutejsi-vrah-v-cesku-neda-se-nic-delat-devenko-rekl-a-strelil-matku-novorozence-do-hlavy.html |website=Blesk.cz |access-date=2 August 2023 |language=cs |date=24 October 2020}}
Karel Dvořák1959–197330Executed{{cite web |title=Karel Dvořák |url=https://www.serialkillers.cz/zapomenuty-seriovy-vrah |website=SerialKillers.cz |access-date=10 August 2023 |language=cs}}
Miloslav Sláma200130Life imprisonmentBrutally attacked and robbed elderly women. Four victims survived his attacks.{{cite web |last1=Kačánová |first1=Jitka |title=Vrah důchodkyň Miloslav Sláma stráví zbytek života ve vězení |url=https://nasregion.cz/vrah-duchodkyn-miloslav-slama-stravi-ve-vezeni-zbytek-zivota-234022/|website=nasregion.cz |access-date=2 August 2023}}
Jiří StrakaSpartakiad killer198530Released in 2004
David VirgulákTaxi killer201430Life imprisonmentKilled three taxi drivers.{{Cite news |date=January 4, 2018 |title=Nejvyšší soud potvrdil vrahovi tří taxikářů doživotní trest |trans-title=The Supreme Court upheld the life sentence for the murderer of three taxi drivers |url=https://www.novinky.cz/clanek/krimi-nejvyssi-soud-potvrdil-vrahovi-tri-taxikaru-dozivotni-trest-40056521 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240629184624/https://web.archive.org/web/20230327195915/https://www.novinky.cz/clanek/krimi-nejvyssi-soud-potvrdil-vrahovi-tri-taxikaru-dozivotni-trest-40056521 |archive-date=June 29, 2024 |work=Novinky.cz |language=cs}}
Jaroslav Hejna200330Life imprisonmentMurdered three people for selfish reasons. His friend Marek Dohnal helped him remove the bodies of the first two victims.{{cite web |title=Soud zpřísnil vrahovi trest na doživotí |url=https://www.idnes.cz/zpravy/cerna-kronika/soud-zprisnil-vrahovi-trest-na-dozivoti.A050222_124926_krimi_mad |website=iDNES.cz |access-date=2 August 2023 |language=cs |date=22 February 2005}}
Michal Semanský2009–201230Life imprisonmentKilled during robberies in senior citizens' homes. Two of the victims were his relatives.{{Cite news |last=Mikuláš Klang |date=January 15, 2013 |title=Je to dobrý člověk, hájil právník vraha tří lidí. Soud potvrdil doživotí |trans-title=He is a good person, the lawyer defended the killer of three people. The court confirmed the sentence |url=https://www.idnes.cz/zpravy/cerna-kronika/dozivoti-pro-vraha-semanskeho.A130115_121523_krimi_klm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240627201439/https://www.idnes.cz/zpravy/cerna-kronika/dozivoti-pro-vraha-semanskeho.A130115_121523_krimi_klm |archive-date=June 27, 2024 |work=iDnes |language=cs}}
Roman Horáček1990–199130Murdered in 2006Murdered a doctor, his ex-wife and her sister in Litoměřice{{Cite news |last=Elmira Talířová |date=April 8, 2022 |title=Vraha našli mrtvého v římovské přehradě. Několik let starý případ policie stále neuzavřela |trans-title=The murderer was found dead in the Římov Reservoir. The police still haven't closed the case, which is several years old |url=https://budejcka.drbna.cz/krimi/34486-vraha-nasli-mrtveho-v-rimovske-prehrade-nekolik-let-stary-pripad-policie-stale-neuzavrela.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240627200915/https://budejcka.drbna.cz/krimi/34486-vraha-nasli-mrtveho-v-rimovske-prehrade-nekolik-let-stary-pripad-policie-stale-neuzavrela.html |archive-date=June 27, 2024 |work=Budějcká Drbna |language=cs}}
Karel Šťovíček1998–202030Life imprisonmentCaused the death of a pensioner during a robbery; after release, murdered two women in sexual encounters{{Cite news |last=Petr Roubíček |date=April 12, 2021 |title=Za dvojnásobnou vraždu doživotí, potvrdil Krajský soud v Hradci Králové |trans-title=Life imprisonment for double murder, confirmed by the Regional Court in Hradec Králové |url=https://hradecka.drbna.cz/zpravy/9533-za-dvojnasobnou-vrazdu-dozivoti-potvrdil-krajsky-soud-v-hradci-kralove.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240627201936/https://hradecka.drbna.cz/zpravy/9533-za-dvojnasobnou-vrazdu-dozivoti-potvrdil-krajsky-soud-v-hradci-kralove.html |archive-date=June 27, 2024 |work=Hradecká drbna |language=cs}}

Unidentified serial killers

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1990–1991 Prague murders

| 1990–1991

| 3

| 0

| 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.

| {{cite web |title=Pražský kriminalistický pomníček. Brutální vraždy tří mladých žen z let 1990 a 1991 a vyšinutý fetišista |url=https://www.prahain.cz/krimi/prazsky-kriminalisticky-pomnicek-brutalni-vrazdy-tri-mladych-zen-z-let-1990-a-1991-a-vysinuty-fetisista-6753.html |website=prahain.cz |access-date=2 August 2023 |language=cs}}

Suspected serial killers

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Bohumil Vacík1994–199541Life 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.{{cite web |title=Bohumil Vacík |url=https://kriminalistika.eu/muzeumzla/vacik/vacik.html |website=kriminalistika.eu |access-date=27 September 2023}}
Marie FikáčkováSušice 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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