#ondrej rigo

Ondrej Rigo aka The International Killer aka The Sock Killer

Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Necrophilia - Robberies
Number of victims: 9
Date of murder: 1990 - 1992
Date of arrest: March 4, 1992
Date of birth: 1955
Victims profile: Helena S. (40) / Ilke Z. (28) / Maria van der W. (58) / Terézia R. (88) / Anna P. (40) and her son Juraj N. (14-16 depends on the source) / Helena N. (79) / Henrieta O. or A. (22) / Matilda U. (67)
Method of murder: Beating with a metal rod, wooden stick or a rock, always hitting the head
Location: Germany / Netherlands / Slovakia
Status: Sentenced to life in prison in Slovakia on December 7, 1994

After arriving at Munich, Ondrej Rigo murdered twice in three months. His first victim, Helena S. (40), probably surprised Rigo while he was burglarizing her apartment. “He killed her and got aroused sexually,” recalls Anton Heretik, author of Rigo’s psychological evaluation during investigation. On the night from June 7 to June 8, 1990, he sneaked through a partially open window into the ground floor bedroom of Helena S. at an unspecified location in Munich. Rigo smashed her head with a 2.5 kilogram metal pipe, wrapped the upper part of her body in a blanket and copulated with her. Before leaving, according to some sources he stole some easy to carry valuables, according to others he stole nothing. He disposed of the murder weapon directly beneath the bedroom window.

On the night between the last day of June and August 1, 1990, Rigo sneaked through the partially open balcony door into the Munich apartment of Ilke Z. (28) murdering her, again using a metal pipe. Probably during copulation, Rigo stabbed her into the neck with a screwdriver. He performed both vaginal and anal intercourse with her. Afterwards, he covered up the body and searched the house for valuables including a golden necklace and an unknown amount of German marks, which he stole. The murder weapon and a men’s sock was later found by the German police at the crime scene.

In October, Rigo left Munich for Amsterdam to visit his sister Helena. Maria van der W. (58) was a woman living alone in Amsterdam with cats. During the night of September 27, 1990, Rigo sneaked into her ground floor apartment through a partially open balcony window and killed her with a stone weighing over 5.5 kilograms (probably a pavement cobblestone). He stripped the body naked and copulated with it. Again he robbed his victim, stealing a camera, a women’s wristwatch, two boxes containing coins and some other valuables. In the kitchen on a shelf he finds some slivovica and drinks it. Later in court, one of the witnesses would testify, that Rigo had a liking for this particular drink.

Rigo left for Bratislava, Slovakia the day following the murder. His killings continued with the murder of Terézia R. (88) inside a retirement home in Bratislava, on October 6, 1990. He murdered her with his fist while she was sleeping. The retirement home reported prayer books, rosary and 4000 Slovak Crowns as missing. Underneath the balcony, the police found some Dutch coins and cigarette butts with Rigo’s biological material on them.

On January 3, 1991, early in the morning, the bodies of Anna P. (40) and her son Juraj N. (14-16 depends on the source) were found inside a ground floor flat in a dormitory, at an unspecified location in Bratislava. Rigo entered the apartment through a window around midnight. The son was sleeping beside his mother when Rigo crushed heir heads with a wooden stick. Anna P. tried to protect her son. Afterwards, Rigo copulated with her body. Anna P., who emigrated to Switzerland in 1982 with her son and husband, was in Bratislava with her son just for a few days for New Year’s.

Jana B. (31) became the first person to survive Rigo’s attack on January 9, 1991, when she managed to fight him off after being attacked in her probably first-floor Bratislava apartment on Kutuzovova street. Her quick decision to fight coupled with a poor weapon choice on Rigo’s part allowed her to come out of the confrontation only with some wounds. Rigo gained access through a ventilation window above the door. After the unsuccessful attack, he quickly fled the apartment. Jana B. noticed that Rigo’s light-blue pants were hand-sewn in the crotch area which later helped in identifying him. The police indeed found such pants in his closet. The same night before this attack, Rigo entered through another window in the neighborhood, but it led only into a small locked storage room.

Three weeks after his last kill and two weeks after the attack on Jana B., at an unspecified date, he murdered Helena N. (79) near Záhradnícka street in Bratislava. This was on the same street as the last murder scene according to some sources, or very near the last murder scene, according to others. Rigo removed a net from the kitchen window of this ground floor apartment, killing Helena N. with a piece of concrete.

Henrieta O. or A. (22) was attacked on July 14, 1991. Rigo gained access to her Bratislava apartment through the window, which she probably left open because it was a hot summer. She was playing on her guitar late into the night. Rigo smashed her head, raped her and robbed her, leaving her for dead. Henrieta O. however survived the attack but died 18 days later. Together with Henrieta O. there was also her grandmother sleeping in another room of the apartment. She was practically deaf and didn’t hear Rigo raping her fatally injured granddaughter.

The last victim, Matilda U. (67), was murdered on March 4, 1992, in the center of Bratislava in a “pavlač” house in Obchodná street. That night, Rigo was in movie theater Dukla (today known as YMCA) on Šancová street together with his girlfriend. They were returning home together when he suddenly told her that he had to take care of something and got off the trolleybus. He didn’t come home until morning.

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