List of Czech criminals

This is a list of Czech people who have been convicted of serious crimes.

Child sex offenders
Czechs convicted of child sex offences:
 * František Merta
 * Hubert Pilčík

Corruption
Czechs convicted of corruption offenses:
 * David Rath
 * Alexandr Novák

Fraudsters
Czechs convicted of fraud:
 * Hynek Bílek
 * Milan Brych
 * Jan Drozd
 * Harry Jelínek
 * Viktor Kožený
 * Victor Lustig
 * Pavel Minařík
 * Tomáš Řepka

Gangsters

 * Antonín Běla
 * Ivan Jonák
 * Radovan Krejčíř
 * František Mrázek

Murderers
Czechs convicted of murder:
 * Martin Barbarič
 * Vojtěch Běloch
 * Bohumír Ďuričko
 * Marie Fikáčková
 * Jaroslav Gančarčík
 * Jiří Kajínek
 * Stanislav Kotačka
 * Jaroslav Papež
 * Jaroslav Řehák
 * Miroslav Stehlík
 * Stanislav Večeřa
 * Martin Vlasák
 * Albert Žirovnický

Mass murderers

 * David Kozák
 * Zdeněk Konopka
 * Olga Hepnarová
 * Zdeněk Kovář
 * Ctirad Vitásek
 * Vladimír Lulek
 * Jiří Popelka
 * Josef Svoboda
 * Romana Zienertová

Serial killers

 * Oto Biederman: member of "The Kolínský Gang" who murdered five people from 1993 to 1995, including a former accomplice; sentenced to life imprisonment.
 * Jan Philopon Dambrovský: Roman Catholic priest who poisoned four archbishops in the 16th-century; arrested and later executed.
 * Jaroslava Fabiánová: murdered four men between 1981 and 2003 for financial reasons; sentenced to life imprisonment.
 * Ladislav Hojer: sadist who raped and strangled at least five women from 1978 to 1981 around Czechoslovakia; executed in 1986.
 * Kateřina of Komárov: 16th-century noblewoman who tortured and maimed between 14 and 30 serfs in Pičín and Příbram; exiled to Prague Castle, where she died in March 1534.
 * Václav Mrázek: convicted of the murders of seven women around Chomutov; executed in 1957.
 * Martin Lecián: responsible for killing three policemen and a prison officer; executed in 1927.
 * Orlík killers: five-man gang who killed people for monetary gain from 1991 to 1993, then stuffed their bodies in barrels and dumped them in dams; sentenced to various terms of imprisonment.
 * Hubert Pilčík: killed at least five people whom he helped cross the border from Czechoslovakia into West Germany; committed suicide in prison in 1951.
 * Martin Roháč: former soldier who robbed and killed 59 people between 1568 and 1571 with his accomplices; all were executed in 1571.
 * Ivan Roubal: occultist who murdered five people from 1991 to 1994; sentenced to life imprisonment and died in 2015.
 * Svatoslav Štěpánek: known as "The Roudnice Monster"; killed one child and at least two women in Roudnice nad Labem from 1926 to 1936, mutilating the female victims' bodies; executed in 1938.
 * Jaroslav and Dana Stodolovi: couple who robbed and killed eight pensioners from 2001 to 2002; both sentenced to life imprisonment.
 * Jiří Straka: known as "The Spartakiad Killer"; teenager who raped and robbed 11 women in Prague between February and May 1985, killing three; sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and psychiatric treatment, released in 2004.
 * Petr Zelenka: male nurse convicted of murdering seven patients in Havlíčkův Brod by lethal injections to "test" doctors; sentenced to life imprisonment.

Spree killers

 * Viktor Kalivoda
 * Josef Kott and Michael Kutílek
 * Roman Postl

Rapists
Czechs convicted of rape:
 * Jaroslav Barták
 * Jaroslav Dobeš
 * Dominik Feri
 * Jaroslav Gančarčík
 * Ladislav Hojer
 * Hubert Pilčík
 * Miroslav Stehlík
 * Jiří Straka

Robbers and thieves
Czechs convicted of robbery or theft:
 * Josef Koudela
 * Johana Peřková

Terrorism

 * Jaromír Balda
 * Samer Shehadeh

War criminals

 * Stanislav Kotačka
 * Bedřich Pokorný
 * Karel Vaš

Others

 * Ludmila Brožová-Polednová
 * Tomáš Plavnický