Zbrodnia to niesłychana: Najgłosniejsze zbrodnie i procesy w Warszawie

Crime lit and movies are of enduring interest. The inclination to observe the dark side of human nature is as old as crime. In times gone by, when there was no television or Internet, newspaper reports were closely followed or high-profile trials were watched from the courtroom. In the 19th century there was a category of women called "court ladies" and tickets were sold for court hearings. In the Middle Ages and a little later, it was not so much the crime itself and the trial that fascinated the little ones, but the spectacular execution. And the ancestors in this regard could be clever. Although there were times when cruelty was not intentional, and even such a solid professional as executioner Kacper Bem had a worse day, making a simple decapitation with a sword turn into a bloody butchery. A side effect was the breaking of one couple's engagement. When public executions ceased, attention focused on trials, especially when people from the upper classes were on the bench.

During the lecture at Worek Kości you will hear about the most notorious Warsaw crimes, trials and executions from the earliest times to the interwar period. You will be able to find out what was the worst crime in the Middle Ages, for the commission of which you could count on an exceptionally long and painful agony under the watchful eye of the executioner, which crimes in the Middle Ages were punishable by death and did it really act as a deterrent? During the ongoing trial in Warsaw, the most eminent Russian lawyer of all time (nota bene – of Polish origin.) appeared. Did he lead to the acquittal of the killer? At the beginning of the twentieth century, a murder took place in one of the premises in Srodmiescie. In the interwar period, in another establishment, a similar crime was committed. Why were the killers not behind bars? Could criminals from the upper classes have counted on more lenient treatment? How did it happen that the killer of a taken doctor a few years later wrote didactic books for children? Why did a certain count accused of murder turn into Teodor's father, and was he really guilty? From Worek Kości you will be able to trace the events at the crime scene, courtroom and scaffold.

For adult guests only.