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The Parents’ Murderers
The Terrible Crime of Stone-Cold College Sweethearts
On a cold winter’s night just after 1 a.m., the screams of a woman crying for help fill a silent street. A neighbor rolls over, deciding it’s a bad dream. Meanwhile, a son cuts his own mother’s throat in the house next door while his girlfriend slaughters the father.
It’s the 12th of December, 2014. The winter, in a small Polish town called Rakowiska, is icy cold.
But that doesn’t bother the murderous pair.
They’re both 18, and they met for the first time only one year ago.
They both come from middle-class families of high achievers where education is a priority.
What could have made them kill?
‘I’m blatantly young and shamelessly talented,’ Suzanna used to say to journalists when asked about the source of her numerous successes. Indeed, her poems won local and national awards.
Feisty, intelligent, and pretty, she was published and interviewed regularly. Because of her particular knack for football, she was even called up to the junior national team.
Yet in spite of these successes, she also has a criminal record.
She had seduced a minor girl and was charged with drug dealing and committing a juvenile sex crime.
