Hallo everyone!
On our last classes I had a presentation about polish serial killers.
I am enclosing some photos and informations connected with this topic.
Enjoy :)

1. Zdzisław Marchwicki

Zdzisław Marchwicki (b. October 18, 1927 in Dąbrowa Górnicza - April 29, 1977 in Katowice, Poland) called the "Zagłębie vampire", was a Polish serial killer. Marchwicki was charged with the murder of fourteen women and the attempted murder of another six. One of Marchwicki's murder victims was the niece of Edward Gierek. Marchwicki received the death sentence in July 1975. His execution took place in 1977.

2. Joachim Knychała

Joachim KnychałaSeptember 8, 1952 - October 28, 1985) was a Polish serial killer, known as the "Bytom Vampire" or "Frankenstein", who murdered six women between 1975 and 1982 in Upper Silesian Industrial Region. He was apprehended, sentenced to death and hanged.

3. Bogdan Arnold

35-year-old electrician, known as calm, quiet person, in years 1966-67 was perpetrator of 4 
homicides and 1 attempt (one victim escaped), on occasionally encountered prostitutes, brought
to his flat. He was tying, torturing and sexually abusing his victims and after that he was killing
them (by strangulation, choking and head trauma caused by the hit with the hammer). Corpses,
after dismemberment and attempts of chemical dissolving in bath, were keeping in his own flat,
where he was living all that time. Victimologically and in psychopathological assessment
sadism with the component of necrophilia were diagnosed, probably because of alcoholism.
Arnold as a motif of his murders considered desire for revenge on females for experienced harm
from their side. He regretted that he didn’t kill his wife.


4. Karol Kot

Karol Kot (December 18, 1946 - May 16, 1968) was a Polish serial killer.. Kot terrorized Kraków, the city he was born and raised in, with monstrous crimes for two years before he was finally captured on July 12, 1966. Because of the accidental choice of the victims which included children and elderly people, as well as the horror his crimes evoked in the citizens of Kraków, Kot was remembered as the Kraków’s vampire and a monster. Before his detention, Kot acted as a normal young citizen, who passed the school-leaving examinations in high school and planned to become a student at an Officer Candidate School.. After the trial, in which he pleaded guilty of the crimes he was charged with, the killer was sentenced to death, which was announced on July 14, 1967. The death penalty was executed on May 16, 1968.

5. Władysław Mazurkiewicz

Władysław Mazurkiewicz (January 31, 1911 - January 31, 1957) was a Polish serial killer who lived in the city of Kraków, Poland and also had property in Warsaw.

He was nicknamed the "gentleman killer", and was charged with the murders of at least 30 people. He confessed to everything, by saying "Yes, that's true." He was convicted and executed by hanging.

6. Skin Hunters

The "Skin Hunters"  ("Łowcy skór" in Polish) is the media nickname for four hospital casualty workers from thePolish city of Łódz, who were convicted of murdering at least five patients and selling information regarding their deaths to funeral homes. They were apprehended in 2002. Their descriptive designation was coined by a newspaper article which first brought the story to the public's attention.

Vocabulary:

1.      Perpetrator- n. one sho perpetrates; especially, one who commits or has committed some objectionable or criminal act.

2.      Cadaver-  n. a dead body, especially one intended for dissection.

3.      To slay- v. to kill violently.

4.       Forensic- adj. relating to, used in, or appropriate for courts of law or for public discussion or argumentation.

5.       Homicide-n. the killing of one person by another.