The 1990s: Prague police officers, the US Navy and Ostrava divers
A police officer from Prague, an Ostrava diver and an American Marine will meet. The closest episodes of the popular Czech Television series Devadesátky deal with this case.
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Footage from the 4th and 5th episodes of the series Ninety, dedicated to the Eagle Assassins.
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Although the case of multiple murderers was called Operation Dam in police files, journalists and the public are perceived as a case of Orlík, Orlické murders or Orlič murderers.
After many years of inquiries, which were partly launched by Central Czech criminal investigators and the reopening of Prague police officers, an arrest took place in 1995 and a verdict was handed down on April 18, 1997. The two defendants then had their sentences corrected at the High Court.
Petr Chodounský, a neighbor and, as it turned out, a companion of Ludvík Černý, one of the murderers, brought the police to where the missing people had disappeared and who was behind the several unsolved murders.
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After information from Chodounský, the police went to the Orlická dam and a terrible “catch” came. Mining divers from Ostrava cooperated with the police on it, and according to the media of the time, it was used by a unique mini-submarine of the US Navy. The search for the body took place from July to early autumn 1995.
Večerník Praha, the predecessor of today’s Pražský deník, wrote at the time: “The corpses of Aleš Katovský, Leorent Lipovec (VP writes distorted Lipanec – editor’s note) and Vlastimil Hort were hidden under the calm surface of the Vltava. The first was wrapped in wire mesh, the other two men became metal coffins. The body of the Albanian waiter Lipovec was so damaged by lye that the pathologists had a lot of work to do with identification. “
With the use of Večerník Praha