Katarzyna Zowada
Katarzyna Zowada
Skinned Alive To make a Bodysuit, The Terrible death of Katarzyna Zowada -Poland- Crime 22 - YouTube
Episode 2
**TRIGGER WARNING**
Katarzyna “Kasia” Zowada
23-year-old Katarzyna Zowada was studying religion at Jagiellonian University in 1998
Like any young adult, trying to figure themselves out, she had changed her studies a few times
Bouncing between psychology and history, before finally settling on religion
Katarzyna was known by her friends as shy, quiet and a bit introverted
She had been suffering from depression since the death of her father in 1996 and had received treatment for it
November 12th, 1998 Katarzyna had a scheduled checkup appointment at the Psychiatric Clinic and was meeting her mother there in Nowa Huta
But she never showed up
Katarzyna’s mother hadn't heard from her all day, and contacted the police
They asked her to hold out a bit longer as she was an adult
Two weeks before her disappearance, she had stopped attending classes at her school
Her mother had no clue she had given up on her schooling
She was still hanging out on campus, so she was never reported missing
She had started to change her appearance a bit
With a new haircut, losing a bit of weight, looking more happy
Some people thought she may have had a love interest
This was not confirmed just theorized by people
Nearly 2 months later, a boat known as the Elk pusher Tug was out on the Vistula waters
The crew felt the boat was caught on something, and decided to check the propellers out
Little did they know, they were about to have a gruesome discovery
Caught in the propeller was a weird leathery material
And soon found an ear attached to it
After contacting the police and having it sent for examination
It was proven to be human skin caught on the boat
And DNA kits had confirmed it was Katarzyna Zowada
And she had been in the water for about 2 weeks before she was found
In another area of the river, they had discovered Katarzyna’s right leg
Search teams, never found the rest of her body
Original theories were, her body had been mangled in the boat propellers
Which seems like a logical answer from how she was found
But after an examination on the body
They had discovered her skin was fillet off of her torso on purpose
Her head and other limbs had been cut off
And her skin was made into a body suit of sorts
That the police assumed the killer intended to wear
She had been beating very badly so badly before her death
And after they had been sliced under her armpits, neck and groin
Then had her skin filleted
They believe the killer had pulled the skin up by their hands
And all this happened while she was still conscious
Her cause of death after examination was blood loss, while being mutilated
Police were stumped at who could have done such a thing
In May of 1999, a similar case had unfolded in Krakow
A man had been discovered with an unattached and scalped head
Sounds familiar right?
Vladimir W, the son of the decapitated man had been the one to kill his father
The 26-year-old, lured his father into the basement of the home in Caucasus, Poland
After attempting to use a stun gun to end his father's life and failing
He resorted to stabbing him to death with a screwdriver
He then skinned his father's face
And hung his body upside down and began to decapitate his father with a shovel and surgical scalpel
He drained the blood into an old bucket in the basement
And after all this he took his father’s head into his room and started scalping it
When he was done, he had tossed his father’s head into the garden
And started sewing the face back together and used salt to dry the skin out and avoid decaying
Vladimir then wore his father’s face and met his grandfather at the park
His grandfather didn’t have the best eye sight, but his ears did not defy the weird tone his son was making
He knew something was fishy
Vladimir’s grandfather had decided to check the basement out and found his son’s headless body
After he headed to the neighbours house, he called 911 and informed them of the basement
Vladimir ran off with the clothes his father died in and hid them
He then remained sitting at a bus stop until the police arrived to arrest him
Vladimir was diagnosed with “borderline” Schizoid personality disorder and sentenced to 25 years
Due to the similarities of the cases, police had suspicion on Vladimir’s involvement with Katarzyna
After an investigation took place, there was no evidence to prove Vladimir was involved in the murder
They soon dismissed him as a suspect
Months and months go by and still nothing on who murdered Katarzyna
And after a year it became a cold case from no leads
Fast forward to 2012 when forensics and DNA testing has improved significantly
A group of officers that work on cold cases, re-opened Katarzyna’s case
After an autopsy and other forensic testing
They had concluded she has passed from blood loss
And found evidence on her that may help identify the murder scene
In 2014 an FBI psychological profiler labelled the murderer as “sadistic”
In 2016, investigators contacted professor Duarte Nuno Vieria who is a specialist in forensics and an expert in signs of torture on a human
Fun fact: Vieria is an expert for the United Nations
Vieria did confirm in his reviews of Katarzyna that she was tortured before her passing and by someone who was very skilled in fighting or martial arts
52-year-old Robert Janczewski was arrested on October 4th 2017
Police found blood in his bathroom, and are being tested
Robert was a person of interest since the start, but no arrests were ever made
Robert was skilled in martial arts, a history of harassing women, he knew Katarzyna, and visited her grave.
Robert used to work with human corpses at a dissecting lab
And was even working as a Zoologist Institute, and would watch as others would prepare animals skins
He had been fired from there after a shift where all the bunnies were killed during his shift and had no reasoning as to why it happened.
One of Roberts friends had handed the police a letter from yours truly Robert Janczewski
Who had disclosed information about Katarzyna’s case
The letter has not been revealed yet to the public
Robert denies knowing Katarzyna, and is charged with aggravated murder
The police asked for more time to gather evidence and the courts extended his detention until September 6th 2018
Robert made complaints that he was being harassed by the guards, but this was just to buy more time for his trial
Investigators asked for a closed trial
Believe Robert to have been inspired by the movie ‘Silence of the Lambs’
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