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during the 1950s. He completed three classes of primary school and worked in Warsaw as a driver. During 1952-1956 and in 1967, he murdered seven women and attempted to murder six others. Although he is believed to have murdered an eighth victim (which he confessed to), it was never proven as the body
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Modzelewski murdered women between the ages of 18 and 87 by strangling them with a scarf or with his bare hands. He took valuables as well as useless objects from his victims which he then threw away. He executed them with utmost cruelty. The murders also had a sexual motive. The lower part of the
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employee as the crimes were committed near the railway track and some of the women who managed to survive stated that the offender was wearing a uniform. As a result, the perpetrator was not found and the local people continued to live in fear.
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victims' bodies were nude and the arrangement of the corpse suggested a penetration of genital organs. Modzelewski was a sadist but it was not verified whether he tortured the victims before or after the murder.
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Helena Klata (22) the vicinity of a road near the rail track between
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