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Martin
LECIÁN
A.K.A.:
"Terror of
Moravia"
Classification: Serial
killer
Characteristics:
Highway robberies
Number of victims: 11
Date of murders:
January 19, 1927 - September 25,
1927
Date of arrest:
April 23, 1927
Date of birth:
October 31, 1900
Victims profile:
10 policemen and a prison officer
Method of murder:
Shooting
Location: Moravia, Czech Republic
Status:
Executed by hanging on October 6, 1927
Martin Lecián (October 31, 1900 – October 6,
1927) was a Czech serial killer who murdered 10 policemen and a prison
officer. He was executed on October 6, 1927.
Wikipedia.org
Body "Broom for Devil," Slayer Says on Gallows
Reading Eagle
October 9, 1927
Olmeutz, Moravia, Oct. 8 (AP). - After a wild
career of crime Martin Lecian, a 19-year-old Czechoslovakian, was
hanged today. Pleading that acute tuberculosis would allow him only a
few years more of life, Lecian was on the point of a reprieve by
President Masaryk, of Czechoslovakia, until a few days ago when he
killed in cold blood a warden of the prison where he was confined.
Lecian had murdered six men and one woman and
participated in 54 highway robberies and numerous other crimes.
As the 70-year-old hangman adjusted the noose,
Lecian shouted, "In an hour the devil will be cleaning the chimney
with my body. I'll make a good broom for him."
