• 08/02/2023
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The cases are not closed, we have been searching for years, the police say. Prisoners can also help<

The police distributed the calendar mainly to prisons. He hopes that information will come from the criminal environment that will help reopen long-unsolved cases.

"Persons in prison quite often share various information with each other, for example, they exchange experiences or share what they heard somewhere. A lot of information circulates between them. We hope that some mention could help us," police spokesman Ondřej Moravčík told iDNES.cz.

However, they do not expect the prisoner to tell them where the missing person is located. The goal is not even for the perpetrator to contact them. However, the police could indirectly learn information that would be just a small piece of the puzzle. "Someone could mention that, for example, he shared a cell with a person who told him something that would help us," explained Moravčík.

Czech police were inspired to publish the calendar by the Netherlands, where a similar initiative helped open six cases. "It's clearly a tactic that works," the spokesman added.

“Although the traces cool down after a long time, a major reversal can occur at any time. That is why we are looking for new facts. In addition to modern forensic and analytical methods, cooperation is a key part of the process with a clear goal: to find out the truth and find out the perpetrators," the criminologists write in the calendar.

Cases are not closed

It might seem that years of unsolved cases are being forgotten. However, the police contradict this. "No serious cases are definitively closed. Although it is formally postponed, because the clues sometimes do not lead further, the criminal investigators still have the file and are working on it," explained Moravčík. Each case is handled by a criminal investigator who repeatedly conducts checks and inspections. Everyone is being searched for, including people who have been lost for decades.

There are very few people that the police won't find. In addition, some people are missing voluntarily. It can be cases where, for example, a woman has a tyrant husband, runs away from him and he reports her to the police.

"Even though a person may be staying somewhere peacefully before the police investigate the situation, they may be listed as missing in the statistics. There are many such cases," added the police spokesman.

The shooting

Among the first cases that the police published was the case of the missing Valeria Kvasničková. She disappeared without a trace in 2017 and to this day it is not known what happened to her. The social worker did not notice anything, and according to the police, she did not even see the child during one of the checks. The search was announced on August 19, 2018.

Soňa Kvasničková received custody of her four grandchildren in 2016 after her 25-year-old son – the father of the children – died and their mother could not take care of them. According to the investigators, however, she tortured them with harsh punishments, especially little Valeria. According to the Municipal Court in Prague, which sent Kvasničková to prison for eight years, she beat her almost daily.

She was not supposed to get custody of her grandchildren

She kicked her, pulled her hair, dragged her, threw her against the wall, hit her head on the ground with her fists, a wooden spoon, a vacuum cleaner stick, a belt. When the girl cried, she shoved a rag into her mouth. She tied her hands and feet with a stocking, chained her to the heater or to the toilet bowl, where she left her hungry and thirsty for long hours after dark. She masked the bruises on her body with powder or bandages. The indictment blamed Kvasničková for all of this.

Court then he played the recording of the testimony of Valeria's brother, who told how his grandmother also beat him and forced everyone to kneel for hours. When the children's knees hurt, they imagined that they needed to go to the bathroom to at least rest for a while. Grandma sometimes let them go, sometimes not. Valerie then walked outside wet.

Valerie disappeared before Christmas in 2017. Her siblings described her as just lying on her bed and appearing to sleep for several days. When she disappeared, they allegedly received instructions from their grandmother on what to say if anyone asked about Valeria.

During the investigation, according to the server iRozhlas.cz, it was also shown that Soňa Kvasničková was not supposed to receive custody of her grandchildren at all. In the past, she was convicted of abusing her own three children. She beat them brutally, did not feed them, ignored mandatory vaccinations, medical examinations and their school attendance.

The court sent her to prison for five years. In addition, she was in prison for theft, fraud, disorderly conduct. The last time the court punished her was in 2002 for endangering the upbringing of her son, whom she did not send to school.

The time has come for new resolutions, goals and wishes. Our wish is to shed light on the still unsolved cases, the so-called memorials, on which our criminal investigators have been working for several years. We have selected 24 cases that you can help us with. The first one is Valerie. She was 6 years old at the time of her disappearance. https://t.co/CtXGeFwFth

The second case that the police published is the missing Marie Pajerová. The police have been looking for her since 2007. She was last seen when she celebrated her birthday in Světlá nad Sázavou on January 11. She left the restaurant around midnight, but it is not known where.

Marie is 160 to 165 centimeters tall, has brown eyes and scars on her stomach and right forearm, according to the police. There are birthmarks on her left and right shoulders. In 2007, she had her hair dyed.

For criminalists from Vysočina, it is still one of the most mysterious cases that they have not been able to solve. Half a year after her disappearance, random witnesses pulled a package from the pond between Lipnička and Dolní Město near Světlá nad Sázavou.

In in it, as it turned out later, were Pajer's clothes that she was wearing on the day of her disappearance, including documents, money and a phone. The police subsequently searched the area, including the pond, but nothing was found. Maria could not be found.

The missing woman was supposed to be trusting, but unfortunately she was unlucky with men. "I told her to find a proper man. She was attracted to dubious existences," one of the acquaintances told Deník.cz years ago. To this day, the police have no new information about the woman's whereabouts.

Missing Marie Pajerová. The police have been looking for her since 2007. She was last seen when she celebrated her birthday in Světlá nad Sázavou on January 11. She left the restaurant around midnight, but it is not known where. | photo: Police of the Czech Republic