Julian Koltun
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- Gender
- male
- Country
- Poland
- Location
- Poland
- Date of birth
- 1950
- Age at first offence
- 30
- Characteristics
- serial rapist, rape, torture, mutilation
- Victim profile
- Women
- Method of murder
- St abbing with knife
- Date(s) of murder
- 1980 / 1981
- Years active
- 1980–1981
- Date of arrest
- January 1981
- Status
-
Sentenced to death
Sentenced to death on August 1982
Case record: Julian Koltun
Personal details
Julian Koltun was born in 1950 in Warsaw, Poland. He was a Polish bookbinder who became a railroad worker. He made his first known foray into violent sex crime at age 30.
The offence
Julian Koltun was a Polish serial killer who raped seven women and killed two of them. He drank their blood. Between 1980 and 1981, he was thought to have killed women and attacked others in several farming communities in Poland.
Koltun was known as “the vampire” after leaving the body so badly mutilated that he became known by that name. His motive was sex.
Victims and attacks
On August 31, 1980, Koltun’s first victim was a Russian woman close to the Polish-Soviet Union border. The woman survived the attack. The attack occurred in a rural area near Poland’s border with the Soviet Union.
In the four months that followed, Koltun attacked, as far as is known, six other women.
The first of Koltun’s two attacks with a deadly outcome was committed on September 17, 1980. He inflicted such grievous injuries that he quickly became known as a “vampire.”
Investigation
Koltun remained unidentified, and his crime was overshadowed by the rise of Solidarity and an epic strike at the Gdansk shipyard.
Arrest
Koltun was arrested in January 1981.
Confessions and interviews
After his arrest, Koltun admitted his crimes to a series of psychiatrists. He also confessed in a series of interviews with psychiatrists and self-styled “sexologists.”
Trial
In the early stages of his trial, in April, the proceedings were closed to protect the public from “gruesome” forensic testimony. Spectators were admitted in time to see Koltun convicted and sentenced to life.
Sentencing
Koltun was sentenced to life in prison for these crimes in 1982. He was sentenced to death in August of 1982.
Aftermath
Michael Newton — An Encyclopedia of Modern Serial Killers — described Koltun as a “Vampire” rape-slayer of women, with motive listed as “Sex,” and the modus operandi given as “Vampire” rape-slayer of women.
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