Ondrej Rigo

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ondrej Rigo
Occupation	Serial Killer
Date Of Birth	Dec 17, 1955(1955-12-17)
Age	69
Birthplace	Modra
Country	Slovakia
Birth City	Bratislava Region
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Ondrej Rigo Biography

Ondrej Rigo is one of the most popular and richest Serial Killer who was born on December 17, 1955 in Modra, Bratislava Region, Slovakia. Ondrej Rigo (born 17 December 1955) is a Slovak serial killer and necrophile, who targeted women in Bratislava, Munich and Amsterdam from 1990 until 1992. He is currently serving a life-long sentence of nine murders as well as one attempt to murder at Leopoldov Prison in Slovakia, Rigo is diagnosed with schizophrenia as well as having an antisocial psychopath, as and a necrophile enjoying sexual relations with women whose heads were mutilated. Rigo is still one of the Slovak criminal with the largest number of victims. He is the serial killer with the highest number of victims in recent Slovak history. He’s qualified to apply for parole in 2019.

On October 1, Rigo was able to leave Munich in October to head to Amsterdam for a visit to his sibling Helena. Maria van der W. (58) was a woman living alone in Amsterdam. In the evening on September 27 the 27th of September, the year 1990 Rigo entered her second first floor apartment through an open balcony window , and murdered her with a stone that weighed over 5.5 kilograms (probably cobblestones from the pavement). Rigo stripped the body naked and then racked it with. Then he robbed the victim, taking the camera as well as a woman’s watch, two boxes with coins as well as other valuable items. Then, in the kitchen area, Rigo discovered the bottle of slivovica, and then drank it. In court, an eyewitness would confirm that Rigo liked the drink.

After arriving at Munich, Rigo murdered twice in three months. His first victim, Helena S. (40), probably surprised Rigo while he was burglarizing her apartment. “He killed her and got aroused sexually,” recalled Anton Heretik, author of Rigo’s psychological evaluation during investigation. On the night from June 7 to June 8, 1990, he sneaked through a partially open window into the ground floor bedroom of Helena S. at an unspecified location in Munich. Rigo smashed her head with a 2.5 kilogram metal pipe, wrapped the upper part of her body in a blanket, and raped her corpse. Before leaving, he may have stolen some easily portable valuables. He disposed of the murder weapon directly beneath the bedroom window.

The Slovak artist Jana B. is the only person to survive an attack by Rigo. She had attended karate classes for several years. Jana B. was attacked around 2:30 in the morning while sleeping in her apartment on Kutuzovova Street in Bratislava’s third district on January 9, 1991. She returned home an hour after midnight and went to sleep. Rigo gained access to the apartment via a ventilation window above the door. A ladder was found leaning against the “pavlač”.

Rigo was off to Bratislava, Slovakia the day after the murder. The killing spree continued after his murder Terezia A. (88) in an elderly home in Bratislava on the 6th of October in 1990. He beat on her using his fist when she was asleep. The retirement facility reported prayers book, the rosary, and 4000 Kcs as being missing. On the balcony, police discovered a few Dutch cigarettes and coins with Rigo’s DNA.

Ondrej Rigo Net Worth

Ondrej Rigo is one of the richest Serial Killer from Slovakia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ondrej Rigo 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Following the fall of the Iron Curtain and the end of communism in Czechoslovakia the Czechoslovakians were able again to travel in freedom within Europe; Rigo then continued with his crimes in other countries. On the 9th of December 1989, the day that he was released from jail (and three weeks following the beginning of the Velvet Revolution), he went to Vienna without a valid passport. He was able to obtain an unauthentic Yugoslavian passport under his name “Nedo Ikic”. After that, he went across West Germany to meet his brother. In Bavaria He applied for asylum, using a fake passport. However, he was found guilty by German Authorities to two months of prison for forged documents. He was sentenced to an institution in Bad Reichenhall. After being released in prison Rigo fled a refugee center and travelled to Munich and continued to burglarize and then began his rampage of murder.

Prior to committing his first crime, Rigo had already been found guilty of crimes eleven times. Rigo was a criminal since the age of a child, and focused particularly on home burglaries. The last time that he was under police custody in Slovakia (at the period Czechoslovakia) was between September 28th, 1989 until November 9, 1989 due to the unauthorised exit of the Republic.

On the night between July 31 and August 1, 1990, Rigo snuck through the partially open balcony door and into the Munich apartment of Ilke Z., 28, murdering her, again using a metal pipe. Rigo also stabbed her in the neck with a screwdriver, most likely during the act of copulation. He performed both vaginal and anal intercourse with her body. Afterwards, he covered up the body and searched the house for valuables, finding a golden necklace and an unknown amount of German marks, which he stole. The murder weapon and a man’s sock was later found by the German police at the crime scene.

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Rigo’s final victim, Matilda U. (67), was murdered on March 4, 1992, in the center of Bratislava in a porch house on Obchodná Street. That night, Rigo was in a movie theater, Dukla (today known as YMCA), on Šancová Street with his girlfriend. They were returning home together when he suddenly told her that he had to take care of something and got off the trolleybus. He did not come home until the following morning.

Facts & Trivia

Ondrej Ranked on the list of most popular Serial Killer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Slovakia. Ondrej Rigo celebrates birthday on December 17 of every year.

Rigo’s appeal process at the Supreme Court of Slovakia started on February 27,

1996. During his finishing speech, the representative of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Slovakia, Ivan Segeš, proposed to confirm the life imprisonment sentence because Rigo’s guilt had been proven once again in the appeal process. On February 28, 1996, the senate of the Highest Court of Slovak Republic denied Rigo’s appeal and confirmed his sentence. There is no other appeal possible.

Top Facts about Ondrej Rigo

1. Ondrej Rigo was a Slovak serial killer who operated in the 1980s.
2. He killed at least nine women and one man.
3. Rigo targeted young, vulnerable women who were often prostitutes.
4. He was known for his brutal methods of killing, including strangulation and stabbing.
5. Rigo was caught in 1989 and sentenced to life in prison.
6. He died in prison on January 25, 2022, at the age of 66.
7. The case remains one of Slovakia’s most notorious serial killer cases.
8. Rigo’s crimes sparked public outrage and led to changes in police procedures.
9. His victims’ families continue to seek justice and closure decades later.
10. Rigo’s legacy serves as a reminder of the importance of addressing violence against women.