Andrzej Czabański

Andrzej Czabański (5 November 1959 – 21 April 1988) was a Polish murderer and rapist, and the last person executed in Poland before capital punishment was abolished in the nation.

Life and crime

At the time of the murder for which Czabański would be executed, Czabański was married. He and his wife lived in Tarnów, southern Poland. At the time of the murder, Czabański's wife was nine months pregnant. He was brought up on the Skowronków street, close to the woman who he would eventually murder, Iwona Nowak, and Nowak had visited Czabański's mother before. After he returned home, he lured Iwona Nowak (sometimes given the pseudonym "Anna B."), who was in her late 40s at the time,

Czabański made a full confession to the murder, even leading the police to the location in the field where he left his victim's body. When he went on trial, the court held a hearing to determine Czabański's sanity. The hearing concluded that he was sane and had low marks in school, but he was of average intelligence; although he was asocial, he was not determined to be a psychopath.

Sometime after Czabański's execution, Iwona Nowak's surviving immediate family members moved out of Poland. Her husband moved to the United States, where he died sometime later. Daria's whereabouts were unknown outside of the fact that she no longer lived in Poland; there was no trace of what happened to Emilia.