[2] After the Second World War, Pilčík started smuggling people across the border from Czechoslovakia into West Germany.
An autopsy concluded that the remains belonged to a man who was likely to have been burnt alive, but no definite conclusion was reached.
[citation needed] On 20 July children playing in sand near the city of Senec found a human leg.
Pilčík was considered dangerous; therefore, in September, a special team of police officers entered his home, along with two members of SNB, disguised as electricians, and arrested him.
She had been kept by Pilčík in a hidden compartment of a pigsty, where she was belted to a structure that included a double-walled box for her head - to muffle the screaming.
Given the amount of jewellery (the only "currency" of value to emigrants) found in his house, it was believed that Pilčík had killed more people trying to escape the Iron Curtain.
The story of Pilčík was used as a basis for one of the episodes of the TV series Thirty Cases of Major Zeman (30 případů majora Zemana), filmed in 1975.