Mordparta Ostrava
The Cases of Luboš Valerián, Head of the Ostrava Crime Squad
A deviant who bludgeoned women to death with a stone. A monster who raped his victims with a willow branch. A phantom who murdered miners in a deep mine. A pensioner who vented his frustration with Semtex... This is just a fraction of the cases handled by the former investigator and head of the General Crime Department of the Regional Directorate of the Police of the Czech Republic for the Moravian-Silesian Region, Luboš Valerián, who also headed the Ostrava homicide squad until 2022. During his career, he was involved in the investigation of more than a thousand of the most serious crimes in the Ostrava region – a region that has often surpassed even Prague in violent crime statistics. He hunted monsters who murdered their victims without batting an eye, driven by greed, jealousy, and sexual deviance. Twelve stories that have left an indelible mark on the history of Czech criminology will terrify, shock, and force the reader to reflect on the value of human life. Many of them have not been published in detail before and are almost unknown to the general public.
The collaboration between journalist Tomáš Lánský and Colonel Luboš Valerián has resulted in a book that tells the stories of not only the murderers but also their victims and the often-overlooked bereaved. The individual chapters present the reader with the methods used to capture and convict the perpetrators, as well as analysing similar cases from the history of Czech criminology. The book is accompanied by over 170 previously unpublished photographs from police archives.
Luboš Valerián
Born in 1957, he joined the then-SNB (National Security Corps) in 1976. After graduating from the Basic Police School in Prague, he served at the MO VB Prague 4-Nusle, then at the OO VB Frýdek-Místek, and from 1981 as an investigator at the District Investigation Office in Frýdek-Místek. From 1982–1986, he studied at the SNB University, 4th Faculty of VB Investigation in Bratislava, graduating with the title JUDr. He also obtained his Ph.D. there in 2006, as part of the Academy of the Police Force of the Slovak Republic. After returning to the OÚV Frýdek-Místek, he moved in 1988 to the Regional Investigation Office of the then North Moravian Region as an investigator. Here, he dealt with the investigation of violent crime. After the establishment of the SKPV (Criminal Police and Investigation Service) in 2001, he became the head of the General Crime Department, which also deals with violent crime. He held this position, with a short break when he was the director of the office of the Regional Directorate of the Police of the Czech Republic for the Moravian-Silesian Region and Commander of the SKPV, until his retirement in 2022 with the rank of colonel. During his career (almost 47 years), he went through basic functions (from patrol service to investigator at OÚV, KÚV, up to management positions). He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Kriminalistika and the journal Kriminalistický sborník, where he is also an active contributor with more than fifty articles. He founded and taught a security course at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ostrava, and currently teaches security courses at Palacký University, Faculty of Science in Olomouc, at the Pan-European University, Faculty of VŠPP (University of Business and Law) in Ostrava, and at the Institute for Public Administration Education in Prague, with its seat in Benešov. He supervises bachelor's, master's, and rigorous theses, acts as their opponent, and is a reviewer of several university textbooks and professional publications.
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