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True crime cases in Serbia

8case filesUpdated Jul 16, 2026

Casepin holds 8 case files in Serbia. By legal status, 1 marked unsolved, 1 marked cold, 1 marked ongoing and 5 marked solved.

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    Serbia and Vojvodina (multiple sites, including Novi Sad, Bečej, Zaječar, Đurđevo) · 1944

    Communist purges in Serbia in 1944–1945

    Between October 1944 and May 1945, Yugoslav Partisan and post-war communist authorities summarily executed tens of thousands of people across Serbia—mostly Germans, Serbs, Hungarians and others considered war criminals, collaborators or ideological opponents—with a 2009 Serbian state commission registering 55,973 named victims and other estimates ranging far higher.

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    Ibar Highway near Petka, Lazarevac municipality, Serbia · 1999

    Ibar Highway assassination attempt

    On 3 October 1999, Yugoslav state security operatives rammed a sand-filled truck into the motorcade of Serbian opposition politician Vuk Drašković on the Ibar Highway, killing four of his associates while Drašković survived; after four trials, senior state security and JSO figures were convicted of murder and attempted murder.

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    Jabukovac, Serbia · 2007

    Jabukovac killings

    On 27 July 2007, Nikola Radosavljević, later found not criminally responsible by reason of mental illness, killed nine neighbours and wounded five more in the village of Jabukovac, Serbia, following a domestic assault on his wife and a failed suicide attempt.

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    Surdulica, Serbia · 1915

    Surdulica massacre

    During the Bulgarian occupation of southern Serbia in World War I, Bulgarian military authorities detained thousands of Serbian men—intelligentsia, former soldiers, and suspected persons—under the pretext of deporting them to Sofia, but instead executed an estimated 2,000–3,000 of them in and around the town of Surdulica between 1915 and 1916.

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    Niš, Serbia · 1999

    Niš cluster bombing

    On 7 and 12 May 1999, cluster bombs dropped during the NATO-led bombing of Yugoslavia struck civilian areas of Niš, Serbia, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens more.

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Case files in Serbia

The files run from 1915 to 2024. The 2020s hold the most, with 3 files. The oldest is Surdulica massacre, from 1915.

By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (5), mass shooting cases (3) and school shooting cases (1).

1 file of the 8 has coverage attached: 5 videos, podcasts and documentaries.

Every file is written from cited sources and pinned where it happened, and every person named carries the legal status the record gives them. If you hold information about an unsolved case, contact the investigating agency named in its file rather than posting it publicly. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.

This page updates from the published files, so counts and statuses change the day a record does. Open any file for its timeline, its sources and the coverage worth your time, or play it as a narrated case file.

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Every case file in Serbia

8 files

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How many case files in Serbia are on Casepin?

8. By status: 1 unsolved, 1 cold, 1 ongoing and 5 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.

What is the oldest of these files?

Surdulica massacre, from 1915. Open the file

How current is this page?

It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 16, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.

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