Orlík killers
[1] The murderers would stuff their victims' bodies in barrels, dissolve them in lye and then throw them into the Orlík Reservoir, an idea initially proposed by Vladimír Kuna.
At the beginning of 1990, he joined the Rapid Response Unit, but left after a few months, allegedly due to a low salary and poor training.
After the revolution, he found employment as a taxi driver at Mercedes-Benz Bohemia Praha, and often visited gyms and solariums (in one of which he would later meet Kopáč and Kuna).
He was well-liked by his neighbours, regarded as a good husband and nicknamed "Mimísek" (loosely translated as "babyface") by acquaintances due to his kind appearance.
On 5 April 1991, Kopáč and Katovský left for Rudná, where Černý, posing as a client interested in exchanging currencies, was waiting for them.
[4] Kopáč was initially unconvinced, but Kuna and Černý nevertheless stuffed Lipoveci's body inside, poured lye and water over it, and then welded the barrel.
[1] Hodr, an antique dealer, was shot in the head near a gas station on Plzeňská Street in Prague by Černý, who wanted to steal a golden seal he was carrying on his person.
Kuna, dissatisfied with the outcome, planned to suffocate his mother with a pillow while visiting her in the hospital, but she succumbed to her injuries five days later.
Petr Chodounský, playing the role of an entrepreneur, offered Kuna's brother a bargain - instead of the promised earnings, however, they stole his money.
He was hired by a group of Yugoslav drug traffickers to carry out a job with the help of Afrim "Frenki" Kryeziu, a Kosovo Albanian.
After seeing Kryezia approaching in his BMW, Černý pulled out a Škorpion submachine gun, firing nine times at the car and killing him.
[5] As a result, the car crashed into a stone pillar, which was part of a church fence that remained damaged for a long time.
[5] At one point, Kopáč suggested that they could earn a lot of money by opening an erotic club, but as none of the gang members had the funds to run it, he approached his brother-in-law Jaroslav Meier and asked him to guarantee a bank loan on his house.
Kopáč's sister, Irena, also learned of the suggestion, and at the end of 1992, she told her brother that if her husband was killed, the house would be handed to her and she would guarantee the loan.
In the summer of 1992, Černý attempted to kill police officer Ján Mato, who knew some of the gang members from the gym.
[1] Among these were vague claims that Černý had boasted of "disappearing" several people, but due to lacking evidence and nothing pointing towards specific victims, this was not investigated further.
[1] The first tangible piece of evidence was traces of blood on the seat of a vehicle Černý had sold to a car dealership, which was later conclusively proven as belonging to Aleš Katovský.
Acting upon information that some businessmen had been buried at the bottom of a dam, police began searching in vain at the Slapy Reservoir.
[1] A TV Nova crew also arrived at the survey site, and at the request of the police, produced a cover story claiming that the purpose of the heightened activity was cleaning the bottom of the reservoir.
[1] In it, Kopáč claimed that the lye was provided by Ivan Roubal,[3] and from the money he had received, he had bought a villa in the Vysočany district, where he wanted to set up a gym.
[4] Irena Meierová was paroled in 2002 and is now said to live in Jinočany under a new identity;[2] Petr Chodounský was released in 2009, in 2020 started working in social services and in 2021 changed his last name after his wife.
