April 7, 1951 - Jozef Slovák
His case is remembered not only for the murders themselves but for what happened between them — a presidential amnesty cut short a sentence for killing a young woman, and within eighteen months of release, at least four more were dead. The killings spanned more than a decade across two countries, targeting young women, and the resumption of violence after his early release made his story central to debates about that amnesty's consequences. He remains one of only two people in modern Slovak history convicted of serial murder outside any organized crime context.
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Jozef Slovák (born 1951) is a Slovak serial killer who murdered at least five women in Slovakia and the Czech Republic from 1978 to 1991 between the ages of 16 and 21. He is currently serving a life sentence for four murders in Ilava Prison in Slovakia.
Slovák remains one of the most significant participants in the controversial wide-ranging amnesty of the newly elected President of Czechoslovakia Václav Havel. Because of this amnesty, Slovák served only eight years in prison for the murder of a 21-year-old Yugoslavian woman, and after his release, murdered at least four other young women in less than a year and a half before again being captured. Jozef Slovák remains one of only two people convicted of a series of murders without any ties to organized crime in the modern history of Slovakia (the other being Ondrej Rigo).
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