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Václav
MRÁZEK
Date
1925
with a piece of wood -
Václav Mrázek
(October 22, 1925 - December 30, 1957 Prague) was Czech
serial killer who was convicted for murdering 7 people.
All his victims were women. His
murders (or murder attempts) were both sexually and
burglariously motivated. Besides murders, he was
convicted of another 127 crimes.
Despite being searched for in the
questioning of the murders in the Chomutov region (where
he committed most of his crimes) he escaped authorities
for a long time. He was caught in March 1957 during a
house inspection following a theft in the Libušín mine,
where he was working as a spa staff attendant.
He was condemned the same year and
executed on December 30th 1957 in Pankrác Prison, Prague.
Václav Mrázek
Vpsmvbrno.cz
Born on October 22nd, 1925 - Executed on
December 30th, 1957, Prague
Václav Mrázek was executed on December 30th,
1957. He had murdered seven women between 1951 and 1956. He is
said to be the murderer having the highest number of victims in
the Czech Republic, after WW II.
Václav Mrázek is one of twelve. When attending
the basic school, Václav Mrázek completes five classes only.
People consider him to be a rather odd and shy, but tactful and
hardworking man. When talking about women, he is a bit shy. He is
a big football and ice-hockey fan. He is keen on cycling too. And
when on a trip, he meets his future victims...
On Sunday, March 17th, 1957, it chances that
the multimurderer Václav Mrázek is arrested. Mrázek, working at
Nejedlý I. Colliery, Libušín, near Slaný, is caught redhanded when
running through his fellow-workers' clothes in the cloakroom.
Later on, during the police investigetions, some facts and
knowledge show Václav Mrázek to be the possible multimurderer. The
gun and some of the murdered women belongings are found during the
house search.
It happend between Přečáply and Seník,
Chomutov. Mrázek commits his very first act of murder
near Drahonice, Karlovy Vary, on August 21st, 1951. His
victim becomes a 15-year-old Hana Chloubová. Mrázek hits
her head with a piece of wood and then he has sex with
her. Later on, Mrázek gets possession of a gun, Walther
7.56 mm, and one month later, he murders again. In
Jirkov, near Chomutov. A couple of lovers becomes his
victim now. Mrázek fires three shots and shoots a 26-year-old
Karel Tirfaj dead. One more shot is enough to kill a 19-year-old
Libuše Dufková when she tries to run away to save her
life. Then, using the dead body, he satisfies his
sexuality.
Apart from the six sex-motivated
acts of murder, Mrázek commits one murder with robbery. At night,
on November 9th, 1956, he burglars into Ladislav Beran's house,
Svinařov. Beran is at work at that time. When Mrázek searching
through the house, Ladislav Beran's wife wakes up, lights up and
says Mrázek's name. Mrázek, being afraid of revelation, hits the
fifty-seven-year old Alžběta Beranová's head several times with an
axe and she dies. Her ten-year-old granddaughter, Jarmila, becomes
the eye-witness of that terrible event. When leaving the house,
Mrázek sexually abuses the girl...
Václav Mrázek
is suspected of murdering some other women from his neighbourhood.
On those dead bodies, there are found lots of same signs and
traces significant and typical of Václav Mrázek. Because of the
lack of evidence against Mrázek, his is not accused of some more
acts of murder.
The file consists of 16 volumes. Apart from
murders, Mrázek is found guilty of 14 sexual-abuse cases. He is
accused of burglary and housebreaking (33 cases), linen stealing
(12 cases), pet stealing (16 cases), stealing six bicycles and
tens of various petty thefts. Mrázek is accused of 127 crimes on
the whole...
Still, there is one question left: How come
that Mrázek, a dangerous criminal, was evading the justice for
such a long time? One reason is the lack of experience of the then-policeman.
In 1948 - 1950, lots of pre-war experienced policemen were "replaced"
with young men coming from working class and willing to hunt "the
spies", "the reactionaries", "the profiteers", simply, all "the
Enemy of the People's democratic order"...
Miloslav Jedlička,
D. C. L. Translated by inspector WO Pavel
Vršovský, M. A.