The price of the bribes paid to the killers was billed to the family of the deceased as an additional funeral charge.
The perpetrators were shown to have killed mostly elderly patients using the muscle relaxant pancuronium (brand name Pavulon).
[4] The scandal was first brought to public attention on January 23, 2002, in an article in the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza by Tomasz Patora [pl], Marcin Stelmasiak and Przemysław Witkowski.
In 2003, a film Skin Hunters (Łowcy skór [pl]) was made of the case starring Piotr Adamczyk.
[12] The Swedish novelist Arne Dahl also used the events as an inspiration in his book A Midsummer Night's Dream (2003)