Małgorzata Rozumecka

Małgorzata Rozumecka (born 1975), nicknamed the Queen of Crime , She grew up in a "normal" home and her parents were hardworking. She was "fascinated by money" and interacted with gangsters quite frequently, since they were not afraid to show off their wealth. The gangster testified at Rozumecka's trial: "She was strange, she loved the gangster world, she hung around with us. Once she wanted to give me a dozen thousand złoty for killing some man who was supposedly after her head. I spat on her and left. That was the end of my acquaintance with Rozumecka."

Murders Rozumecka lured her victims, Era GSM representatives Piotr Aniołkiewicz and Paweł Sulikowski, to a forest in the village of Komorów on the pretext of buying 32 mobile phones. She posed as a representative of a nonexistent film society dedicated to the actor Bogusław Linda, and said that the society required 32 phones, which would cost in total. Motivated by the prospect of a high commission, Aniołkiewicz and Sulikowski set out with cartons of phones to what they thought was Linda's villa, but was really a forest. She got Paweł involved after she learnt that two representatives were coming and not one like she originally thought. In a forest clearing, Aniołkiewicz and Sulikowski were shot and their bodies were thrown into a pit that was dug beforehand.

Prior to the murders, she had arranged a deal with a merchant at the market in front of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, to whom she sold the stolen phones for .

Trial In 1999, Rozumecka was convicted of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment. During her trial, Rozumecka refused to answer any questions, saying that she did not want to participate or even listen to the trial at all. She denied that she was trying to protect Paweł by staying quiet. She also tried to leave the courtroom, but was stopped by a policeman.

Rozumecka's brother Paweł left Poland with his mother and fled to Mexico to avoid impending arrest. On 13 November 2008, Rozumecki's sentence was annulled and the Court of Appeal announced that he will have a completely new trial, due to what the presiding judge, Barbara Skoczkowska, called in her judgement a "[gross violation of] the law" by the district court that had initially sentenced him. He was resentenced to 15 years in prison in 2009.

Imprisonment

Escape attempt Rozumecka had tried to escape from a psychiatric hospital in Tworki, where her mental state was being evaluated, with the assistance of her father. He was waiting underneath the hospital with a fake passport for her, a Mexican visa, a plane ticket. She was caught when she ran to his car. Her father was sentenced to a year in prison for assisting her, after which he died of a severe heart attack.

Possible parole In a 2024 interview, Rozumecka said that she was trying for the past 2 years to get parole. She added that she hoped to go to the Netherlands after her release, since there is "greater anonymity" there in her opinion.

In culture

Television

An interview with Rozumecka was the focus of an episode of , a documentary series aired by TVN about the lives of inmates in Polish prisons.

Books

Monika Sławecka wrote a book about Rozumecka in 2017 titled .