Markovič: Lovec přízraků - Vraždy, které šokovaly republiku – Šulc Viktorín (2024)

These were exceptional and exceptionally cruel cases. When investigators first arrived at the murder scenes and stood over the victims’ battered bodies, the unknown perpetrator seemed like a distant phantom, a monster with incomprehensible thoughts and even more perverse actions. What was the reality? The professional career of police investigator and head of Prague’s homicide squad Jiří Markovič is marked above all by sexually motivated murders. The case of five-time murderer Hojer and the investigation of the so-called Spartakiad strangler Straka have already entered the bloodstained history of Czech criminal investigation. Markovič also investigated the brutal murder in Hodkovičky Forest, which inspired screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl at the time and changed textbook assumptions about the presumed profile of the perpetrator. The book also reveals the merciless truth about the double murder in Prokopské údolí, the murder in the U Dvou koček restaurant that led to a lengthy trial, and the psychopath Vocásek, the first person sentenced to life imprisonment who is now trying to secure his release. Readers visit crime scenes, autopsy rooms and psychiatric institutions, guided by the Ghost Hunter. The book is in Czech.