Jaroslava Fabiánová

Jaroslava Fabiánová (born 1965) is a Czech serial killer who committed a total of four financially motivated murders between 1981 and 2003. She is currently serving a life imprisonment sentence for four murders and other crimes. Their similar backgrounds, psychopathology and modus operandi led the media to refer to Fabiánová as "the Czech Aileen Wuornos."

Adolescence and first crimes Jaroslava Fabiánová was born in 1965 and was allegedly raped as a child. Her parents divorced when she was 13 years old, and since neither parent showed interest in their children, she was abandoned. In 1981, in Děčín, she joined a group of her Roma peers who engaged in petty theft and occasional prostitution. Later that year, Fabiánová took part in several burglaries. In October, she killed 78-year-old Vladimir Z. using a masonry hammer and a kitchen knife when he refused to pay her for sexual services. She stabbed him in the face with a stitching awl. She was apprehended one day after the murder and charged with murder and her earlier burglaries. As a minor, she was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment, but served only 4 years and 9 months. After serving her sentence, she became a switchman at České dráhy, but continued engaging in prostitution, later drugging and robbing her clients. In 1996, she was arrested for the death of a Hungarian tourist, who died of an overdose as a result of her drugging his beer with a hypnotic to rob him. Fabiánová was sentenced to 10 years in prison, followed up with a 5-year ban on visiting Prague, serving her sentence in the Pardubice women's penitentiary. She was released on parole in 2001. Despite her legal banishment from Prague, she stole a cell phone there on 23 February and sold it to a pawnbroker. However, she sold it using her own ID, and was arrested and sentenced to one year in jail with 3 years probation.

Apprehension and conviction On 5 June 2003, Augustin K. was found in Prague's Poříčí district. He had been murdered in the kitchen with a cleaver, with the corpse then pulled out of the living room, sat in a chair and covered with a blanket.