Woman Walks Out of Church Not Knowing She's Been Stabbed in the Back

Woman Walks Out of Church Not Knowing She's Been Stabbed in the Back: The Serial Attacks of Karol KotSeptember twenty-first, nineteen sixty-four. Helena Bensen left a Krakow church unaware that a knife wound had pierced her back. No one around her noticed-not even the attacker, a seventeen-year-old boy who would later describe that moment as the most pleasurable of his life.In this episode, we explore how a young man with access to an armory, a collection of sixteen bladed weapons, and an annotated atlas of human anatomy operated for two years while his confessions to a close friend went unreported. We examine the gap between his calm public image and the detailed sadistic fantasies he verbalized at school, and the silence that allowed him to escalate from stabbing women in enclosed spaces to the murder of a child.Victim: Helena Bensen (first attack), Leszek Kędzierski (murder), Małgosia (child victim)Date: September 1964 - July 1966Location: Krakow, PolandStatus: Executed May 1968- A seventeen-year-old national youth champion in target shooting had fantasized about a mass shooting from the armory but instead began stabbing women in churches and stairwells.- His close friend Danusa Bodarcheek heard him confess to multiple attacks in detail over months but did not report him until details published in the press matched what he had told her.- Police deliberately delayed his arrest until after his final exams to prove in court that he possessed the cognitive ability to understand his actions.- During a formal victim identification lineup, Kot calmly told Francesca Lewandowska: "You have a good memory. Come here so I can finish you off."Karol Kot, Krakow Poland 1964, serial killer, stabbings, young offender, psychiatric evaluation, homicide investigation, criminal psychology, true crime EnglishTo listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.© 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected] listen ad-free and access premium episodes, start your 30-day free trial at obomedia.comOBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie