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Leszek PEKALSKI

 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 


A.K.A.: "The Vampire of Bytów"
 
Classification: Homicide
Characteristics: Rape
Number of victims: 1 - 17 +
Date of murders: 1984 - 1992
Date of birth: February 12, 1966
Victims profile: Men and women
Method of murder: Several
Location: Bytów, Poland
Status: Sentenced to 25 years in psychiatric institution on December 9, 1996
 
 
 
 
 
 

Leszek Pękalski, a.k.a. Vampire of Bytów (born 12 February 1966 in Osieki near Bytów, Poland) is a Polish serial killer. He is believed to have killed at least 17 people between 1984 and 1992. At some stage of criminal procedures he admitted to having killed as many as 80 people, but he later retracted his confessions.

Nevertheless, due to improper evidence collection, he was convicted for only one murder. As of 2007, he is serving a 25-year term in prison and is to be released in 2017.

 
 

Leszek Pekalski

December 9, 1996

Accused of killing 17 women from 1984 to 1992, Leszek was convicted of one murder but cleared of more than a dozen other slayings by the Provincial Court in the northern city of Slupsk, Poland.

 
 

Leszek Pękalski

Accused of killing 17 women from 1984 to 1992, Leszek was convicted of one murder but cleared of more than a dozen others. After an eight-month trial the Provincial Court in the northern city of Slupsk, Poland, sentenced Leszek to 25 years in a psychiatric institute. The court said there was insufficient evidence to convict him of the other killings. Leszek, when he was first arrested, admitted to killing more than 80 people. Later he said the police had forced the confession out of him.

"I'm a gullible man, and I was easily persuaded by what the officers had told me," Pekalski told the judge. "I'm mentally weak, and if somebody pushes me, I break down. Then I admit to things I have never done. I have never killed anyone. I'm so scared. The prosecutor threatened that the victims' families or the public would kill me if I'm acquitted or get a mild sentence. He yelled at me and told me to confess everything."

Like in the O.J. Simpson trial, DNA tests of hair strands were to be crucial pieces of evidence implicating the defendant. Sadly the prosecutor's hopes proved futile when Doctor Ryszard Pawelski from the Gdansk Medical Academy's forensic medicine institute examined the evidence and declared that the cops had clumsily handled the hair strands and damaged their evidential value.

According to police Pekalski confessed to details of the crimes no one else could've known about. "We couldn't find his trail for a long time. He never followed a regular pattern; there was no typical victim or a repeated killing method. He would hit with a wooden cane or would strangle his victim with a belt."

Like other lust killers, the Pekalski was diagnosed with having an abnormal sex drive. When he was first incarcerated in 1992 he asked the warden's permission to let him keep a rubber sex-shop doll in his detention cell. Poor lonely Leszek wasn't allowed to get the sex-doll. He has appealed to the government's Citizen Rights representative, and is awaiting the decision. Sources say he has put on a lot of weight in jail, and is hopeful to soon "find a girl," in the flesh or made out of rubber.

 
 


 

Leszek Pekalski

 

 

 
 
 
 
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