5case filesUpdated Jul 14, 2026
Casepin holds 5 case files in Poland. By legal status, 1 marked unsolved, 3 marked solved and 1 marked overturned.
Credit: Autor nieznanyPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenCastle Square, Warsaw · 1983
Grzegorz Przemyk, an 18-year-old Warsaw student, died in May 1983 from injuries inflicted by police officers who detained him after his high school graduation; the killing and the communist government's attempt to cover it up became a defining scandal of Poland's martial-law era.
Credit: Unknown author Unknown authorPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenWłocławek, Poland · 1984
Jerzy Popiełuszko, a Polish Roman Catholic priest linked to the Solidarity movement, was abducted and beaten to death by three Security Service officers on 19 October 1984; his body was recovered from the Vistula Water Reservoir near Włocławek on 30 October 1984. The three officers and the colonel who ordered the killing were tried and convicted.
OVERTURNEDListenKraków, Poland · 1998
Katarzyna Zowada, a 23-year-old Jagiellonian University student, disappeared in Kraków, Poland, in November 1998 and was found dismembered in the Vistula River weeks later. Robert Janczewski was convicted in 2018, but the Kraków Court of Appeal acquitted him in October 2024.
Credit: Bert Verhoeff for AnefoCC BY-SA 3.0 NLSourceUNSOLVEDListenAnin, Warsaw, Poland · 1992
Former Polish Prime Minister Piotr Jaroszewicz and his wife, Alicja Solska, were beaten, bound, and shot to death in their fortified Warsaw home in September 1992. Police later alleged a Radom burglary crew was responsible, but the men who stood trial were acquitted in 2024, and no one has been convicted in the killings.
SOLVEDListenŁódź, Poland · 1990
Four staff members of a hospital casualty department in Łódź, Poland were convicted of murdering at least five elderly patients and taking bribes to tip off funeral homes about patient deaths, in a scandal publicly dubbed the "Skin Hunters" case.
The files run from 1983 to 1998. The 1990s hold the most, with 3 files. The oldest is Killing of Grzegorz Przemyk, from 1983.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (4), kidnapping and abduction cases (1) and robbery and burglary cases (1).
None of these files has creator coverage attached yet; each one can still be heard as a narrated case file.
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5. By status: 1 unsolved, 3 solved and 1 overturned. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Killing of Grzegorz Przemyk, from 1983. Open the file
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