Few criminals who worked in the territory of the former Czechoslovakia might “boast” such a twisted biography as Ladislav Hojer, who committed such atrocities that he was ashamed to talk regarding them in front of the police and had to confess in writing. Check out the story of the man who gave the name to the new miniseries that Nova TV is showing on its Voyo internet channel. Who was Hojer and how did he make his mark in the history of Czech criminology?
Ladislav Hojer was actually a relatively ordinary criminal. A list of his deeds without details would seem like many of his kind. Bad childhood, complicated family circumstances, inability to establish normal interpersonal relationships, even those with women. He called the fairer sex “goats”, and when he had the opportunity to get close to a woman, he had incomprehensible attacks of aggression. Welcome to the world of a man whose actions changed Czech criminology forever.
The difficult youth of Ladislav Hojer
He spent his youth only with his brother. His own father died at an early age, his mother soon followed him, and the boys were left alone in an apartment in Prague-Motola. Hojer went to a special school, according to available information he was not among the smartest students, his IQ was only 88 points. Information on Wikipedia they also state that according to the policemen of the time he had a very strange and primitive sense of humor, one of his favorite rhymes was: “When the tail stands up, my brain stops.” Unfortunately, it inadvertently described his modus operandi.
Hojer only focused on women and the motives of his actions were fundamentally sexual. His friends arranged for Hojer a girl who was supposed to have sex with him. But as soon as she showed her own initiative and undressed, Hojer panicked and threw her through the door. From then on, his relationships got worse and worse. Mainly for his counterparts.
Murders because of shyness
The first time Ladislav murdered was on the night of November 1-2, 1978. In Děčín, near the Elbe embankment, he attacked twenty-nine-year-old Eva R. He knocked her to the ground and dragged her into the bushes, where he strangled her. He did not have sexual intercourse with the corpse, he only masturbated over it. Ladislav chose his second victim on February 9, 1980. It was twenty-five-year-old Ivona S., who studied medicine and whose husband was a military officer. Ivona Ladislav strangled her with two fingers and her scarf in the toilet on the train that was traveling from Prague to Děčín. Again, Ladislav did not have sexual intercourse with his victim and only masturbated over the corpse. But most likely because there was not much space in the toilets.
However, Hojer committed his worst acts following his fourth murder, which he committed in Brno, when he strangled eighteen-year-old Martina. He tried to communicate with her before, but the girl ran away. That was a fatal mistake. Hojer then pulled her to the ground and dragged her to the park, where he tried to rape her. He ended up stabbing and then strangling the girl. Much worse things were to follow.
Beastly acts
Hojer cut off the girl’s breasts and genitals. He put the amputated parts in a plastic bag and took them home. There he abused them several more times. He got tired of this following regarding a week, when he decided to boil the girl’s remains in salted water. Then he tried to taste them with mustard and horseradish, but he didn’t like the food, he said.
It was actually a coincidence that got Hojer behind bars. First, a mentally ill patient confessed to the murder of his last victim. But the investigation later showed that this man was behind bars at the time of the crime. But the strange thing was that he knew how the victim died. The reason was that his friend showed him the scene of the crime on a walk and told how he murdered Anna Š. That friend was Ladislav Hojer, who was summoned for questioning and eventually confessed to the murder.
His story and capture are mapped by the new series Metoda Markovič: Hojer, in which the audience will be introduced to, for example, Petr Lněnička, Sarah Haváčová, Václav Neužil Jr. or Adam Mišík, as it is written on ČSFD.
