# List of Czech criminals

This is a list of Czech people who have been convicted of serious crimes.

## Child sex offenders

Czechs convicted of child sex offences:
* František Merta
* Hubert Pilčík

## Corruption

Czechs convicted of corruption offenses:
* David Rath
* Alexandr Novák

## Fraudsters

Czechs convicted of fraud:
* Hynek Bílek
* Milan Brych
* Jan Drozd
* Harry Jelínek
* Viktor Kožený
* Victor Lustig
* Pavel Minařík
* Tomáš Řepka

## Gangsters

* Antonín Běla
* Ivan Jonák
* Radovan Krejčíř
* František Mrázek

## Murderers

Czechs convicted of murder:
* Martin Barbarič
* Vojtěch Běloch
* Bohumír Ďuričko
* Marie Fikáčková
* Jaroslav Gančarčík
* Jiří Kajínek
* Stanislav Kotačka
* Jaroslav Papež
* Jaroslav Řehák
* Miroslav Stehlík
* Stanislav Večeřa
* Martin Vlasák
* Albert Žirovnický

### Mass murderers

* David Kozák
* Zdeněk Konopka
* Olga Hepnarová
* Zdeněk Kovář
* Ctirad Vitásek
* Vladimír Lulek
* Jiří Popelka
* Josef Svoboda
* Romana Zienertová

### Serial killers

* Oto Biederman: member of "The Kolínský Gang" who murdered five people from 1993 to 1995, including a former accomplice; sentenced to life imprisonment.
* Jan Philopon Dambrovský: Roman Catholic priest who poisoned four archbishops in the 16th-century; arrested and later executed.
* Jaroslava Fabiánová: murdered four men between 1981 and 2003 for financial reasons; sentenced to life imprisonment.
* Ladislav Hojer: sadist who raped and strangled at least five women from 1978 to 1981 around Czechoslovakia; executed in 1986.
* Kateřina of Komárov: 16th-century noblewoman who tortured and maimed between 14 and 30 serfs in Pičín and Příbram; exiled to Prague Castle, where she died in March 1534.
* Václav Mrázek: convicted of the murders of seven women around Chomutov; executed in 1957.
* Martin Lecián: responsible for killing three policemen and a prison officer; executed in 1927.
* Orlík killers: five-man gang who killed people for monetary gain from 1991 to 1993, then stuffed their bodies in barrels and dumped them in dams; sentenced to various terms of imprisonment.
* Hubert Pilčík: killed at least five people whom he helped cross the border from Czechoslovakia into West Germany; committed suicide in prison in 1951.
* Martin Roháč: former soldier who robbed and killed 59 people between 1568 and 1571 with his accomplices; all were executed in 1571.
* Ivan Roubal: occultist who murdered five people from 1991 to 1994; sentenced to life imprisonment and died in 2015.
* Svatoslav Štěpánek: known as "The Roudnice Monster"; killed one child and at least two women in Roudnice nad Labem from 1926 to 1936, mutilating the female victims' bodies; executed in 1938.
* Jaroslav and Dana Stodolovi: couple who robbed and killed eight pensioners from 2001 to 2002; both sentenced to life imprisonment.
* Jiří Straka: known as "The Spartakiad Killer"; teenager who raped and robbed 11 women in Prague between February and May 1985, killing three; sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and psychiatric treatment, released in 2004.
* Petr Zelenka: male nurse convicted of murdering seven patients in Havlíčkův Brod by lethal injections to "test" doctors; sentenced to life imprisonment.

### Spree killers

* Viktor Kalivoda
* Josef Kott and Michael Kutílek
* Roman Postl

## Rapists

Czechs convicted of rape:
* Jaroslav Barták
* Jaroslav Dobeš
* Dominik Feri
* Jaroslav Gančarčík
* Ladislav Hojer
* Hubert Pilčík
* Miroslav Stehlík
* Jiří Straka

## Robbers and thieves

Czechs convicted of robbery or theft:
* Josef Koudela
* Johana Peřková

## Terrorism

* Jaromír Balda
* Samer Shehadeh

## War criminals

* Stanislav Kotačka
* Bedřich Pokorný
* Karel Vaš

## Others

* Ludmila Brožová-Polednová
* Tomáš Plavnický