PRAGUE — 1981 · Serial Murder

The Ladislav Hojer Case

SolvedSources: ALast updated: 14 October 2026

Between 1978 and 1981, five women were killed in different towns of Czechoslovakia, including Děčín, Prague, Brno and Košice. For a long time the killings were treated as unrelated cases. The investigation into a murder in October 1981 led to the arrest of a young man living in Prague on 11 February 1982. Under questioning he confessed to the other murders and to numerous sexual assaults; criminologists believed the true number of victims could be higher. After psychiatric evaluations, Ladislav Hojer was sentenced to death and executed at Prague's Pankrác Prison on 7 August 1986. The case entered criminology literature as one of the gravest serial murder cases in Czechoslovakia.

Date: 1981
Place: Prague, Czechia, Prague, CZ
Category: Serial Murder
Case Status: Solved
Coordinates: 50.0800, 14.4300 ↗

Timeline of Events

1978Killings of women, thought to be unrelated, began in Czechoslovakia.
31 January 1981One of the gravest incidents of the series occurred in Brno.
October 1981The last murder of the series took place.

11 February 1982The killer was arrested and confessed to the other murders.
7 August 1986He was executed at Pankrác Prison.

Sources

Wikipedia — Ladislav Hojer en.wikipedia.org ↗
Deník.cz — Sériový vrah Hojer denik.cz ↗
Aktuálně.cz — Kdo byl Ladislav Hojer zpravy.aktualne.cz ↗
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