Karol Kot was a Polish murderer who terrorized the city of Krakow between 1964 and 1966.
20 Facts About Karol Kot
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Karol Kot's family consisted of his father, who was an engineer, his mother, and a sister who was eight years younger than him.
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For family summer holidays, the four would travel to Pcim, to the south of Krakow, where a bored Karol Kot began to regularly visit a butcher shop and became increasingly fascinated by knives, dying animals, and blood.
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Karol Kot found pleasure in watching death and, at the encouragement of some of the abattoirs, in drinking still-warm pig's blood.
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Karol Kot indulged in studying anatomy books, imagining wounds that could be inflicted on people.
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Academically, Karol Kot had no problems at school, although he remained isolated from other students because of his somewhat strange personality.
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Karol Kot was a member of a shooting club, with dreams of being a commando or a student at an Officer Candidate School.
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On 21 September 1964, Karol Kot attacked Helene Velgen, whom he stabbed in church.
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Karol Kot drove the knife into her back, from behind, when she knelt down to pray; however, Velgen survived this attack.
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Karol Kot followed her and stabbed her in the back while on the stairs to her apartment.
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Karol Kot died the next day, but not before Kot visited the hospital and inquired about the victim.
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Karol Kot went to a tenement on Jana III Sobieskiego Street and assaulted her when she came downstairs to collect letters from the mailbox.
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Karol Kot grabbed her and dealt eight stab wounds to the stomach, chest and back.
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Four days later, Karol Kot returned to the scene, enquiring about the victim's name from her mother.
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Karol Kot often left bottles of beer or soda poisoned with arsenic out in the open in popular places, but nobody ever drank them.
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Karol Kot once poured a large quantity of arsenic into a schoolmate's drink, but the boy noticed a suspicious smell and refused to drink it.
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Karol Kot boasted of his crimes to a fellow student, Danuta, who informed authorities.
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Karol Kot was arrested on 1 June 1966, the day after his matura exam, which he was allowed to sit in order to prove that he was sane so that he could not later plead insanity during a trial.
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The trial began on 3 May 1967, and Karol Kot pleaded guilty to all charges.
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The verdict was handed down on 14 July 1967, and Karol Kot was sentenced to death as well as losing citizen rights.