Polish mass murderer Ryszard Sobok hanged in Wroclaw on this date in 1984.
The horror of the little village of Walim, Sobok suddenly slaughtered six intimates from February 11 to 12, 1981.
On the former date, Sobok strangled his seven-month-pregnant mistress Krystyna Nykiel along with Krystyna’s 16-year-old daughter and one-year-old son. They had a fractured relationship: Sobok drank away their little money, and he was angry that she wanted to abort her pregnancy. Still, the fury he vented on this woman seemed to well surpass the bounds of any ordinary crime of passion: Sobok hung up the bodies in his tenement’s main living room, then went calmly to sleep.
Upon waking, he called on his father and bludgeoned the man to death with a hammer, then applied the same fate to a young niece and nephew. And once again these last two he strung up, a special nightmare awaiting their mother’s discovery upon return from work that afternoon.
His chillingly calm confession gave no hint of madness and neither did the court psychiatrists. He was treated accordingly.
I killed Krystyna Nykiel because she wanted to kill my child and drive me away … her daughter Teresa because she saw me kill her mother and could tell someone … her son Marek so that he didn’t starve when orphaned … my father because he didn’t lend me money for food and because of him I didn’t have any milk or food at home … Irka and Anka because they tried to defend my father.
On this day..
- 1536: Michael Seifensieder, Hieronymus Kals and Hans Oberecker, incriminating abstention
- 1794: Madame Lavergne and Monsieur Lavergne, united in love
- 1832: James Lea and Joseph Grindley, arsonists
- 1777: James Molesworth, in the words of the Founding Fathers
- 1843: A bunch from Heage hanged
- 1949: Dr. Chisato Ueno, because life protracted is protracted woe
- 1923: Konstanty Romuald Budkiewicz, Catholic priest in the USSR
- 1312: Pierre Vigier de la Rouselle, Gascon
- 1984: Ronald Clark O'Bryan, candyman
- 1856: William Bousfield, Calcraft'd
- 2001: Mariette Bosch, love triangulator
- 1947: Qazi Muhammed, father of Kurdistan