Jozef Slovák
Slovak murderer
Jozef Slovák (born 1951) is a Slovak serial killer who murdered at least five women in Czechoslovakia 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).
Early life
Little is known about Slovák's early life. He was born in Plavecký Štvrtok, Czechoslovakia (present-day Slovakia) on April 7, 1951. Altogether, he was sentenced to prison eight times during his life.
Murders
Jozef Slovák was convicted of the murder of five women, listed below.
Jozef Slovák met his first victim, Yugoslavian woman Blažica P. on a train.
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