Mordparta Ostrava - Případy šéfa ostravské kriminálky Luboše Valeriána – Valerián Luboš (2025)

A deviant killing women with a stone to the head. A monster raping victims with a willow branch. A ghost murdering miners in a deep mine. A retiree dealing with his frustration with semtex... This is just a fraction of the cases of former investigator and head of the general crime department of the Regional Directorate of the Czech Police in Moravia-Silesia, Luboš Valerián, who also headed the Ostrava murder department until 2022. Throughout his career, he participated in the investigation of over a thousand of the most serious crimes in the Ostrava region – a region that has often surpassed Prague in violent crime rankings. He hunted down monsters who killed their victims without a blink of an eye, driven by greed, jealousy, and sexual deviance. Twelve stories that left an indelible mark on the history of Czech criminology will frighten, shock, and make readers ponder the value of human life. Many of them have not been published before and are almost unknown to the general public. In collaboration with journalist Tomáš Lánský, Colonel Luboš Valerián created a title that brings closer the stories of murderers, but also their victims and overlooked survivors. The individual chapters present readers with the methods used to catch and convict the perpetrators, as well as analyze similar cases from the history of Czech...