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Karol Kot („The Vampire of Kraków”)
Karol Szczepan Kot was born on 18 December 1946 in Kraków, Poland. He spent his whole life in Kraków. He was interested in weapons and military. In his early life he had no problems at school. Karol failed one of the subjects at college, wherefore he suffered a nervous breakdown.
In 1964 he committed his first crime. He stabbed an elderly woman in a church and he escaped. The woman survived. Six days later he killed an elderly woman near the church. On 13 February 1966 he killed an 11-year-old boy near the Kościuszko Mound. In April 1966 he tried to murder an 8-year-old girl. He grabbed her and he stabbed her in the stomach, chest and back. The girl survived. He also tried to kill people by poisoning.
Karol Kot was arrested on 14 July 1966. It was before his matura exams. The police officers were surprised, because he didn’t look like a murderer. He looked friendly and he inspired confidence. Karol Kot was charged with two murders, ten attempted murders and four acts of arson. He pleaded guilty. He said, "... I liked to drink warm blood and I killed like no one else in Kraków."
The verdict was declared on 14 July 1967. He was sentenced to death. The judgement was made on 16 May 1968 and he was executed at the age of 21. Karol Kot was nicknamed “the vampire of Kraków”.
Otylia Gburek
Otylia Gburek (Tillie Klimek) is one of the worst criminals in Poland. It’s not a person we should be proud of, but we want to tell you her dark history. So, let’s get started!
She was born in 1876 in Poland, but she moved to the USA with her family. She liked cooking, so we could say that Otylia was a normal child, but oddly enough she could predict for example dates of pets’ death.
When she grew up, she was in a lot of relationships with Polish men, but she still was known as a person who has prophetic dreams. When she was 14, she got married to Józef Mitkiewicz. They were marriage for 25 years, but before her husband died, she had a prophetic dream about his death… This situation repeated with her second husband – Jan Ruskowski, her cohabitant Józef Guszkowski and her third husband Franciszek Kupczyk. Interestingly, Otylia bought a coffin for him before his death.
Finally, she got married to Józef Klimek. After the wedding he became ill. When his family took him to hospital, doctors detected arsenic poisoning.
Otylia admitted to poisoning her husband because she thought that the police won’t examine the deaths, but she was wrong. After the exhumation arsenic was detected in her former husbands’ bodies too. The police established that Otylia poisoned her neighbours, pets, women whom she was jealous about and cohabitants who left her… Moreover, Otyila said that she had collaborated with Nellie Klimek - her cousin.
Finally, in 1923 the women were accused of poisoning 13 people but they didn’t admit. Anyway, they were sentenced to life imprisonment, but after a year Nellie was released from prison and Otylia died on 20.11.1936 of a heart attack.
Stein Bagger
At a banquet back in December 2008, accounting firm Ernst & Young feted a Danish software company for runaway growth under Stein Bagger, its dynamic chief executive. About a thousand guests, including Denmark's tax minister and leading business people, were there to applaud.
But Mr. Bagger, the night's big winner, wasn't there to pick up the accolade of "Entrepreneur of the Year" and two other awards. He was busy fleeing from what investigators now describe as Denmark's biggest business scam in decades.
Shortly before the banquet began, Mr. Bagger, 41 years old, vanished from a hotel in Dubai. He flew to New York, drove across America and then surrendered to police in Los Angeles. In the meantime, his award-winning company, IT Factory, declared bankruptcy. A liquidator has taken over IT Factory and is sifting through its affairs.
Sent back to Denmark Tuesday, Mr. Bagger cried and pleaded guilty before a Danish court to charges of aggravated fraud and forgery, crimes that could land him in jail for eight years, according to his court-appointed lawyer, Jesper Madsen.
"Most of his business was fake," says Jens Madsen, head of an economic-crimes unit now investigating the spectacular rise and fall of Mr. Bagger. The entrepreneur also happens to be a former bodybuilder who, before becoming a Danish tech superstar, posed for a Swedish muscle magazine dressed as Superman. He's now suspected of pumping up IT Factory's profits -- which nearly tripled last year -- through phony deals.
The gist of the allegations is that Mr. Bagger used a web of phantom firms to get money from banks and then used these same companies to place big purchase orders for IT Factory software and services. He was buying from himself using other people's money.
The chief investigator estimates the swindle amounted to around $185 million, a modest sum next to the alleged fraud of America's Bernard Madoff but enough to fuel a jet-set lifestyle of sports cars and French Riviera holidays sharply at odds with the Danish norm.
Peter Lundin
Peter Lundin is one of Denmark’s most notorious murderers. He has killed his mother, former wife and her two sons. Peter grew up in Denmark, but as he turned 9 year old he immigrated to USA with his family. In 1991 he killed his mother. He strangled her and buried her on a beach on the east coast. In 1993 he got sentenced to 20 years in prison. At that time he was only 19 years old. In 1999 he was released and deported to Denmark because there wasn’t enough space in the American prisons at that time. When he arrived to Denmark he got a wife, and lived with her and hers two sons. In 2000 he kills his wife by trying to rip off her head. He ends up strangling her so she dies. After that he killed her two sons. It is assumed that he cut up the bodies, and threw them in a plastic bag and afterwards threw them in the rubbish bin. The bodies have never been found. He refused that he had purpose to kill his family. The jury did not believe him, so after 10 days court session they sentenced to live. Today he has a son and a wife even though he is still in jail. To cover himself he changed his name several times, so now his name is Bjarne Skounborg.
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