Roman Horáček

Roman Horáček (1969–2006) was a Czechoslovak serial killer who murdered three women in his hometown of Litoměřice between 1990 and 1991. He was later linked to one of the murders via DNA but was never convicted of it.

Horáček went on the run to escape charges for his first murder, and was himself murdered at an unknown date, as his body was found in 2006. His murder remains unsolved.

Early life Little is known about Horáček's early life. Born in 1969 in Litoměřice, he supposedly committed his first violent offense at age 12, when it was alleged that he stabbed his neighbor with a hunting knife. However, he was not tried for this crime due to his young age.

Murders According to investigators, in 1990 Horáček murdered doctor Libuše Lednická at her office in Litoměřice, where he worked as an orderly, and then set the room on fire. While he was considered the only suspect in the case and his DNA was found at the crime scene, authorities could not arrest him at the time due to the limitations of forensic science at the time. While the body initially remained unidentified until October of that year, coroners were able to establish that Horáček was severely beaten - he had multiple fractures, strangulation marks, blood spurts and broken ribs - before being thrown into the reservoir, but were unable to establish whether he succumbed to his injuries or drowned. Moreover, he was handcuffed and his body was suspended with a thirty-pound weight.