List of Czech criminals
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This is a list of Czech people who have been convicted of serious crimes.
Child sex offenders
Czechs convicted of child sex offences:
Corruption
Czechs convicted of corruption offenses:
- David Rath
- Alexandr Novák[2]
Fraudsters
Czechs convicted of fraud:
- Hynek Bílek
- Milan Brych
- Jan Drozd[3]
- Harry Jelínek
- Viktor Kožený[4]
- Victor Lustig
- Pavel Minařík[5]
- Tomáš Řepka
Gangsters
- Antonín Běla[6]
- Ivan Jonák[7]
- Radovan Krejčíř
- František Mrázek
Murderers
Czechs convicted of murder:
- Vojtěch Běloch[8]
- Bohumír Ďuričko[9]
- Marie Fikáčková
- Jaroslav Gančarčík[10]
- Jiří Kajínek[11]
- Stanislav Kotačka[12]
- Jaroslav Papež[13]
- Jaroslav Řehák[14]
- Miroslav Stehlík[15]
- Stanislav Večeřa[16]
- Martin Vlasák[17]
- Zdeněk Vocásek[18]
- Ladislav Winkelbauer[19]
- Albert Žirovnický[20]
Mass murderers
- David Kozák
- Zdeněk Konopka
- Olga Hepnarová
- Zdeněk Kovář
- Ctirad Vitásek
- Vladimír Lulek
- Jiří Popelka[21]
- Josef Svoboda[22]
- Romana Zienertová[23]
Serial killers
- Oto Biederman: member of "The Kolínský Gang" who murdered five people from 1993 to 1995, including a former accomplice; sentenced to life imprisonment.[24]
- Jan Philopon Dambrovský: Roman Catholic priest who poisoned four archbishops in the 16th-century; arrested and later executed.[25]
- Jaroslava Fabiánová: murdered four men between 1981 and 2003 for financial reasons; sentenced to life imprisonment.[26]
- Ladislav Hojer: sadist who raped and strangled at least five women from 1978 to 1981 around Czechoslovakia; executed in 1986.[27]
- Kateřina of Komárov: 16th-century noblewoman who tortured and maimed between 14 and 30 serfs in Pičín and Příbram; exiled to Prague Castle, where she died in March 1534.[28]
- Václav Mrázek: convicted of the murders of seven women around Chomutov; executed in 1957.[29]
- Martin Lecián: responsible for killing three policemen and a prison officer; executed in 1927.[30]
- Orlík killers: five-man gang who killed people for monetary gain from 1991 to 1993, then stuffed their bodies in barrels and dumped them in dams; sentenced to various terms of imprisonment.[31]
- Hubert Pilčík: killed at least five people whom he helped cross the border from Czechoslovakia into West Germany; committed suicide in prison in 1951.[32]
- Martin Roháč: former soldier who robbed and killed 59 people between 1568 and 1571 with his accomplices; all were executed in 1571.[33]
- Ivan Roubal: occultist who murdered five people from 1991 to 1994; sentenced to life imprisonment and died in 2015.[34]
- Svatoslav Štěpánek: known as "The Roudnice Monster"; killed one child and at least two women in Roudnice nad Labem from 1926 to 1936, mutilating the female victims' bodies; executed in 1938.[35]
- Jaroslav and Dana Stodolovi: couple who robbed and killed eight pensioners from 2001 to 2002; both sentenced to life imprisonment.[36]
- Jiří Straka: known as "The Spartakiad Killer"; teenager who raped and robbed 11 women in Prague between February and May 1985, killing three; sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and psychiatric treatment, released in 2004.[37]
- Petr Zelenka: male nurse convicted of murdering seven patients in Havlíčkův Brod by lethal injections to "test" doctors; sentenced to life imprisonment.[38]
Spree killers
Rapists
Czechs convicted of rape:
- Jaroslav Barták[39]
- Jaroslav Dobeš[40]
- Dominik Feri
- Jaroslav Gančarčík[10]
- Ladislav Hojer
- Hubert Pilčík[1]
- Miroslav Stehlík[15]
- Jiří Straka
Robbers and thieves
Terrorism
War criminals
- Stanislav Kotačka[12]
- Bedřich Pokorný
- Karel Vaš[45]
Others
- Ludmila Brožová-Polednová
- Tomáš Plavnický[46]