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He completed three classes of primary school, he was a driver by occupation and he worked in Warsaw.
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Stanislaw Modzelewski
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In the period of 1952-1956 and in 1967, he murdered seven women and attempted a murder of six other women. Although he is believed to have murdered another, eighth victim (he even confessed to it), it was never proven, as the body was never foundation He was sentenced to death and the execution by hanging, which was carried out in November 1969, in Warsaw.
Modzelewski murdered women in the age between 18 and 87 by strangling them with a scarf or with his bare hands.
He took valuables as well as useless objects from his victims which he then threw away. He executed them with utmost cruelty.
The murders had a sexual motive, the lower part of the victims" bodies were nude and the arrangement of the corpse suggested a penetration of genital organs. Modzelewski was a sadist but it was not verified whether he tortured the victims before or after the murder.
The list contains names of the confirmed victims of Modzelewski, place of murder, cause of death, and the approximate date of murder
Józefa Pietrzykowska (67) a forest in Zielona Góra near Gałkówek, strangled with bare hands, July 1952
Maria Kunka (32) a forest near Tuszyn, strangled with a scarf, December 1952
Teresa Piekarska (21) a field by the forest in Nowy Józefów, strangled with a scarf, March 1953
Irena Bernadetta Dunajska (24) a field near the road in Gałkówek, strangled with a scarf, 1/2 January 1955
Helena Walos (18) the vicinity of a country road near the forest in Gałkówek, strangled with a scarf, March 1956
Helena Klata (22) the vicinity of a road near the rail track between Andrzejów and Gałkówek, strangled with a scarf or bandana (a fragment of material was left on the victim"s neck), August 1956
Maria Gałecka (87) a flat on Sienna Street in Warsaw, strangled or drowned (the corpse stuck out of the bathtub, the buttocks were exposed and cut with a sharp tool), 14 September 1967
The investigation of the Vampire of Gałkówek"s murders was discontinued in 1957.
Despite the thoroughness of the investigation, the perpetrator was not found as the police were led astray from the beginning. They assumed that the murderer was a Polish State Railways employee as the crimes were committed near the railway track and some of the women who managed to survive stated that the offender was wearing a uniform. As a result the perpetrator was not found and the local people continued to live in fear.
10 years later the case was reopened because of the murder in Warsaw.
The suspect of killing Maria Gałecka was soon foundation lieutenant was Stanisław Modzelewski, her ex-neighbour and he was known to have had a number of disputes with the victim.
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November 13, 1969 (aged 40) -
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Polish