Bohumil Vacík

Bohumil Vacík
Born1952 (1952)
Staré Sedlo, Czechoslovakia
Diedc. 17 July 2026(2026-07-17) (aged 73)
Pankrác Prison, Prague, Czech Republic
ConvictionMurder ×4
Criminal penalty
Life imprisonment
Details
Victims5
Span of crimes
1994–1995
CountryCzech Republic
Date apprehended
February 1996

Bohumil Vacík (1952 – c. 17 July 2026) was a Czech serial killer who was convicted of killing four people in Sokolov and Chodov from 1994 to 1995. He was convicted of these murders in August 1996 and sentenced to life imprisonment.[1]

Background

Vacík was born in 1952 in Staré Sedlo in Czechoslovakia.[2][3] He graduated from elementary school as a child. He then trained as a machine repairman in agriculture. In 1973, he began working for the Sbor národní bezpečnosti (SNB), but in 1974 he suffered a serious injury that left him unable to work for almost a year.[4] He then worked for the SNB in the passport and visa department. He was then forced to leave the police after failing to repay several loans.[5]

In 1979, Vacík started working as a locksmith. For some time, he also serviced locomotives in Vřesová. After the Velvet Revolution, he worked as a salesman and was also granted a partial disability pension.[4] He also tried to start a business. However, his business plans did not work out, which led to problems with debts.[6] Vacík appeared confident in public and tried to appear as a successful businessman.[3] He was married and, according to his later statements, had several daughters.[2][7]

Murders

Early in the morning of 19 December 1994, Vacík asked his friend and colleague Jan Hejduk to lend him a CZ 75 firearm.[5] According to one version, the colleague refused to lend him the firearm, after which Vacík attacked him and took the weapon in a scuffle. He then shot Hejduk twice in the head. Another version states that the colleague eventually lent him the weapon at least for inspection, and only then did the shooting take place.[2] Vacík then fled and eluded the police with the stolen weapon.[2]

In the early hours of 11 January 1995, Vacík arrived at the apartment of Vietnamese businessman Tien Minn Too, who had lent him 28,000 CZK ($1054.98 USD) two months earlier. Upon arriving at his apartment, he first informed him that he wanted to hand over the amount owed to him. However, upon entering the kitchen, Vacík pointed a pistol at him, which he had stolen from the doorman he had murdered a month earlier, and threatened to shoot him. He then shot Minn Too, fatally wounding him. He then shot and killed Minn Too's six-year-old daughter, who had seen the incident.[8] According to footage later broadcast by TV Nova, Vacík had a very warm relationship with her.[5] He then murdered Minn Too's wife, who was staying in the apartment and was nine months pregnant, with a single shot to the head as he left.[6]

On the same evening, Vacík robbed a Lišov gas station of 25 thousand CZK. During the robbery, he seriously injured station attendant Milena Puchingerová, who died of her injuries the next day. After the murder, he remained at the gas station and served a customer.[6]

Capture

Vacík was not caught immediately after the crime, and on 14 January he was still walking around Minn Too's house, in which he had committed the murders. At that time, there were criminal investigators in and around the house investigating the case (the bodies of the victims were only found on 14 January). He was also supposed to have attended a police ball. Although the police initially did not connect the individual cases and believed that the murder of Minn Too could be a dispute within the Vietnamese community, ballistic tests eventually showed that all the victims had been shot with the same weapon.[2][4] Over time, the police also identified Vacík as one of the main suspects, as he knew Minn Too's family well and visited them.[6]

Vacík was finally arrested more than a year after his actions, in February 1996.[9] He immediately confessed to his actions.[2]

Wife's suicide

On 2 March 1996, his wife, a kindergarten teacher, committed suicide by poisoning herself with town gas after Vacík's actions became known. After receiving news of her death, Vacík reportedly accepted the fact without any major reaction.[6] Not long after, his father-in-law died of a stroke.[10]

Conviction and death

During the trial, Vacík was described by experts in the field of psychiatry and psychology as a personality suffering from polymorphic psychopathy with aggressive, schizoid and hysterical manifestations. He was also found to have a tendency towards hypochondriacal experiences and neurotic reactions, and an IQ slightly above average. The experts stated that the injury he had suffered 20 years earlier and his subsequent partial disability were not the cause of his crimes.[6]

In August 1996, Vacík was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Plzeň Regional Court for four murders and illegal possession of weapons.[11] He did not appeal the verdict. However, he was said to have been sweating and shaking profusely during the verdict.[2][10] According to his later words, he suffered from ankylosing spondylitis.[7] He was not convicted in the murder of another person, a gas station attendant, only because the investigation of that murder was found to have violated the law.[6]

In 2011, Vacík was placed in Mírov Prison, at which time he was said to be suffering from colon cancer.[7] In September 2013, he unsuccessfully requested to be transferred to a prison with a milder regime.[5]

On 17 July 2026, it was announced that Vacík had died.[12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ dce,ČTK (14 August 2016). "Zavraždil celou rodinu včetně ženy před porodem: Bohumil Vacík odkroutil už 20 let z doživotí". Blesk.cz (in Czech). Archived from the original on 4 December 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Bohumil Vacík" (in Czech). Encyklopedie sériových vrahů. 13 June 2024. Archived from the original on 13 June 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  3. 1 2 Barika SFX. "MÍSTO PLACENÍ DLUHŮ NĚKOLIKANÁSOBNÁ VRAŽDA: Bohumil Vacík (Vražedná mysl S01E10)". YouTube. Archived from the original on 4 December 2024. Retrieved 17 July 2026.
  4. 1 2 3 "Bohumil Vacík: Původně policista z České republiky byl ve skutečnosti vrah. Možná dnes běhá na svobodě – Pravda24" (in Czech). 22 February 2023. Archived from the original on 4 December 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Zedník, Vladimír (11 December 2015). "Dlužník chladnokrevně popravil Vietnamce, jeho dceru i těhotnou ženu". iDNES.cz (in Czech). Archived from the original on 14 February 2026. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Bohumil Vacík". kriminalistika.eu. 13 June 2024. Archived from the original on 15 November 2025. Retrieved 17 July 2026.
  7. 1 2 3 "Vraždili. Teď šijí deky a hračky". www.novinky.cz (in Czech). 18 July 2011. Archived from the original on 4 December 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  8. ↑ "Bohumil Vacík během měsíce zavraždil několik lidí: Zastřelil i šestiletou holčičku!". Blesk.cz (in Czech). 14 August 2022. Archived from the original on 12 August 2025. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  9. ↑ "Zabil čtyři dospělé, šestiletou holčičku a nenarozené dítě. Sice dostal doživotí, přesto už možná chodí někde mezi námi | Krajské listy.cz". www.krajskelisty.cz. 13 June 2024. Archived from the original on 12 August 2025. Retrieved 17 July 2026.
  10. 1 2 "Krvavé devadesátky, čtyřnásobného brutálního vraha Bohumíra Vacíka k soudu téměř donesli" (in Czech). Brněnská Drbna – zprávy z Brna a Jihomoravského kraje. 13 June 2024. Archived from the original on 4 December 2024. Retrieved 17 July 2026.
  11. ↑ Kilián, Milan (6 January 2022). "Bez slitování: Expolicista popravil celou rodinu včetně malé holčičky". Deník.cz (in Czech). Archived from the original on 4 December 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  12. ↑ "Doživotně odsouzený čtyřnásobný vrah Vacík zemřel". Novinky (in Czech). 17 July 2026. Archived from the original on 17 July 2026. Retrieved 17 July 2026.
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