Secret

He spent over twenty years with the police. Under the call sign Vlčák 42, he worked in patrol service, the criminal investigation department, and the Organized Crime Detection Unit (ÚOOZ), handling the most serious cases. He even found himself in the crosshairs of the mafia, who wanted him dead. In this interview with Lucie Bechynková, author of the Opravdové zločiny (True Crimes) podcast, he looks back on the arrest of serial killer Ivan Roubal, extortionists, contract killers, and Russian-speaking gangs. He revisits the 1990s, when police officers relied mainly on experience and intuition. How did they investigate crimes committed by people who played by no rules?