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World's Most Evil Killers S03E10
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00:00The End
00:02The End
00:04The End
00:07February the 13th, 1966.
00:10Krakow, Poland.
00:12Children were out sledging,
00:14but 19-year-old Carol Cott
00:16was looking for a very different kind of thrill.
00:19This is somebody who chose to do evil.
00:21He knew the difference between right and wrong,
00:24and yet he chose to harm others anyway.
00:26Cott spotted an 11-year-old boy walking alone
00:30and approached him.
00:32Press called him a vampire and a beast.
00:36People were really, really afraid.
00:38Spurred by an insatiable lust for blood,
00:41Cott grabbed the boy
00:43and drove his bayonet into the child's chest repeatedly.
00:50He stabbed the boy 11 times,
00:52puncturing every vital organ.
00:56Cott killed as a schoolboy
00:59at the age of 21.
01:01He had already stood trial
01:04for two counts of murder,
01:06ten counts of attempted murder.
01:10The perverse pleasure he derived
01:12from harming the most vulnerable of victims
01:15makes Carol Cott one of the world's most evil killers.
01:20KRACOW, SOUTHERN POLAND
01:21KRACOW, SOUTHERN POLAND
01:22KRACOW, SOUTHERN POLAND
01:26Beginning in 1964, a young man called Carol Cott developed a lust for blood
01:41that earned him the moniker, the vampire of KRACOW.
01:59He would terrify the city for the next two years.
02:06Cott was, without question, one of the world's most evil killers,
02:10not least because he killed all his victims while effectively a schoolboy.
02:15He was completely lacking remorse and he was so young.
02:20To completely lack a conscience, to be a kind of fully formed killer
02:24before he's even aged 20 is really shocking.
02:27Still at school, Carol Cott had killed two people,
02:33an 11-year-old boy at a sledging competition
02:36and an 86-year-old woman as she prayed.
02:42Cott had attempted to kill at least a dozen more.
02:47Fascinated by the sinister story, Marta wrote a book on Cott.
02:52Women were afraid to go out to church anymore if they were going to a church.
02:59Some of them were putting like some metal balls or other objects like pillows
03:05and attaching them to their bags so they can protect themselves.
03:10Coroner Tomasz Konopka closely studied the Carol Cott case.
03:17Only two people died as a result of Carol Cott's activity,
03:20but the way he killed, his approach towards murder was unique.
03:27Killing gave him pleasure.
03:31One of the characteristics of Carol Cott was that after he would kill,
03:35he took great pleasure in licking the knife and tasting the blood.
03:40This aspect of the vampirism is something that has made his crimes sufficiently unique.
03:48This killer's story begins a little over 70 years ago.
03:58Carol Cott was born in Krakow in southern Poland on December the 18th, 1946,
04:05to a middle-class family.
04:08On the surface, their home life seemed happy and healthy.
04:11His father worked as an engineer, his mother was a stay-at-home mum, and they were quite a respectable family.
04:20It was like a good, loving family.
04:22His mother didn't work especially for him, so he didn't have to go to preschool.
04:27And he was raised in a Jewish quarter of Krakow.
04:38But when Carol Cott was eight years old, his sister was born.
04:42I think that really did unsettle him quite a lot, because he's been used to being the centre of attention for eight years.
04:50He feels that she's the favoured one.
04:52And whether or not that's true, often when we look at dynamics in families,
04:57it's not what parents are doing or not doing, it's how children are perceiving that.
05:00So I think he felt pushed out, I think he felt slighted right from the beginning.
05:08Later, Carol Cott said that his parents loved her more than him.
05:12He said that's why he abused her.
05:15He tried to introduce military order at home.
05:21I think Cott's relationship with his sister is a warning sign.
05:25And this was the beginning, I think, of a process for Cott.
05:30A process of expressing himself in a dysfunctional way when things weren't going as he wanted them to go.
05:36And it's one that escalates slowly over time.
05:40Another sign that all was not well with the boy was his cruelty to animals.
05:46They had two cats in the house.
05:49And he was, like, treating cats badly.
05:52He was throwing them at the walls, things like that.
05:55Often when we look back at the childhoods of serial killers,
05:58we see some form of harm, some form of abuse towards animals.
06:04And this is something that individuals do to maintain some control
06:09because they have feelings of trauma, of anxiety, of basically feeling slighted, of feeling left out.
06:16On family holidays to the village of Poczym, 30 miles south of Krakow, Cott developed an unnatural passion.
06:26He developed a fascination with slaughterhouses.
06:31On holiday, he would go with his parents and ask to go to the slaughterhouse.
06:37Now, this is quite unusual in a young man of 10, 11, 12.
06:46That's when he understood that he loves blood.
06:50He's fascinating with blood.
06:52He was talking about it like he'd noticed that blood is still warm.
06:56It was alive just a moment ago and that it was something very special for him.
07:01One of the most extraordinary incidents when he was in the slaughterhouse was that the slaughtermen drained blood into a cup and passed it to him for him to drink.
07:16They thought this boy would simply freak out.
07:20He did exactly the opposite.
07:22He drank the blood, which in turn freaked them out.
07:25Here's a child who goes on family holidays to the countryside.
07:31And what do normal children do?
07:34What are they interested in?
07:35They're interested in playing, running through the woods, maybe picking flowers, right?
07:40Swimming if it's possible.
07:42What does Carol Cott want to do?
07:44He wants to slice up an animal.
07:47And he wants to drink the animal's blood.
07:49And he wants to do it in front of people.
07:52And he wants them to be entertained by it or amazed by it.
07:56This is extraordinarily rare behavior.
07:59At the same time, young Carol Cott developed a disturbing fetish.
08:05He said that knife was like his biggest love he can think of.
08:11He was admiring knives.
08:13He actually can speak in surprisingly sophisticated language about knives.
08:17Cott's rare obsession would soon prove deadly.
08:23This is a weapon.
08:25This is something that he can use to threaten other people.
08:29And carrying a knife makes him feel important.
08:32It makes him feel powerful.
08:34Later he started thinking, how does it feel to put knife into a human body?
08:38But he didn't have a courage.
08:40So he started hurting small animals at first.
08:43And he noticed that blood affects him.
08:45It makes him excited.
08:48While at school, Cott joined a Target shooting club, where he met a girl, Danusha, that he soon became obsessed with.
08:57She was six years older than Carol.
09:00They became like friends.
09:02But from his side, I think this relationship looked a bit different.
09:07I think she treated him as a friend and he was in love.
09:11It wouldn't surprise me if this relationship wasn't one of equals.
09:16Because I think here we've got a young lad who has difficulty relating to other people.
09:21He doesn't have those social skills.
09:22In a twisted bid to impress Danusha, Cott revealed to her some of his sadistic fantasies and cruel acts he had committed.
09:33I suspect she finds him cute.
09:35She's sure the stories are untrue or made up.
09:38But she's just not excited by them.
09:42And in some ways, that's exactly what Cott needs.
09:46He needs somebody who can hear his craziness, who he can brag to, who he can story tell to, who he can relive with, and not have them screaming bloody murder.
09:57On a shooting club outing, the young Cott could not contain his violent urges.
10:05After having told her that he's this person, he attempts to prove it to her by attacking her and even starting to strangle her.
10:13He attacked her. He pulled out a piece of broken glass from his pocket.
10:19He told her he wanted to cut her wrists and throw her into the river, so it would look like a suicide.
10:25This is basically his frustrations, because he can't get what he wants.
10:33And the only way that he knows to get what he wants, based on his past experience, is to be violent, is to be abusive, is to be manipulative.
10:42But it doesn't quite work with Danusha.
10:46She responds in a very interesting way.
10:49She laughs. She doesn't take it seriously.
10:52And tells him, in essence, well, you know everyone knows that we're together today, so if you kill me, um, you'll definitely be caught.
11:02And he stops.
11:05What you have to be impressed with is the woman herself, because her momentary psychological sophistication probably saved her life.
11:13But on September the 21st, 1964, the 17-year-old schoolboy felt compelled to attack a stranger for the first time.
11:25Carol Cott was describing that day the urge of healing was so incredible that he just couldn't calm down and started to walk across the town with a knife.
11:37And then he thought that he would search for some lonely woman in a church. And he went to one of the churches and he was waiting.
11:49Cott later said he was about to leave when 48-year-old Helena entered a church in the center of the city to pray.
11:56He took out a German military bayonet from the sheath and he stabbed her in the back.
12:06He stabbed her just like once in her back, trying to reach the heart from the back.
12:13When someone is stabbed, they will describe feeling as if they've been punched.
12:18You don't necessarily get that sharp feeling you might imagine.
12:22And that would be a surprise, it would be a shock, it would be unpleasant.
12:27It's only when there's blood coming out that they realise what's going on.
12:31So in the moments in this blitz attack, I think perhaps this victim didn't really understand what was going on.
12:38Remarkably, the 48-year-old woman survived.
12:41To stab someone to the back, you are primarily looking at damage to the heart, damage to the lungs.
12:49And that certainly can be lethal, but it's not usually instantly fatal.
12:58The woman didn't realise that this had happened. She probably didn't feel any pain.
13:04It was only after she left that she realised, when she went to a shop and someone told her
13:09that her clothes were blood-stained.
13:18The interesting thing about the first attack is it shows you how naive he is.
13:23His stabbing behaviour doesn't have a chance of killing anyone.
13:28He doesn't understand, really, how you kill somebody, right?
13:30So it's like he's exploring it. It's like he rushes in, he stabs, he waits for something to happen.
13:36He thinks magic's going to happen. Blood's going to be everywhere and he's going to have a dead body.
13:40But the schoolboy's bloody intent was far from blunted.
13:47So here we've got this individual who associates power and status with harm,
13:51and whether or not his victims die, that's probably not something he really cares about.
13:55Cracow, Poland, September the 23rd, 1964.
14:04Just two days after his first attack, 17-year-old Carol Cott was on the prowl again.
14:11His next target was an elderly woman chosen at random.
14:15The second attack happened only two days later, and I think this illustrates how much he enjoyed the first attack,
14:27and how much he wanted to continue at the high that had come along with that.
14:32In my mind, I think he was painting his own picture, the life of Carol Cott.
14:39He was fulfilling, blossoming, if you like, into a fully-fledged killer.
14:47I think he set himself that dream.
14:51The butterfly was emerging from the chrysalis.
14:56Cott wanted to kill again, but still a schoolboy.
15:00The young man needed a victim who wouldn't fight back.
15:04One characteristic that connects all the incidents
15:07was that he attacked single people.
15:10Single, meaning there were no witnesses.
15:14I think the choice of victims here is no accident whatsoever.
15:17We know that elderly people and elderly women in particular
15:20are one of the target groups for serial killers,
15:23because they are physically weaker and they are often on their own,
15:28and that vulnerability makes it easy to target them and to take their lives.
15:33Cott's next victim was a 78-year-old woman called Francesca.
15:39He spotted her getting off a tram.
15:42When she entered the apartment building, Cott attacked.
15:49Cott stabbed her, again in the back.
15:52This time, she felt the pain more quickly.
15:56But equally, Cott disappeared.
16:02Francesca did indeed survive the attack,
16:06but she never recovered from her wounds.
16:11The stabbings pierced her backbone,
16:14and she had problems walking for the rest of her life.
16:16I think that Cott, with all of his victims, he was trying to kill them,
16:22but he wasn't willing to hang around long enough to make sure of it.
16:27He was trying to escape.
16:29The news of the shocking attacks rattle the citizens of Krakow,
16:34but that only served to embolden 17-year-old Carol Cott.
16:39There would have been a bit of a buzz, a bit of a fear,
16:41in the community around them,
16:44and to know that he's created this
16:46is something that he's going to be really enjoying.
16:49So he will be escalating his offending.
16:52It is going to be more violent, more serious, more prolonged.
16:59Just six days later, on September the 29th, 1964,
17:04Cott spotted an elderly woman near a nunnery in Krakow.
17:08Armed with his bayonet, he followed her into the nunnery.
17:19She's also stabbed from behind,
17:22but this one seems to have been more ferocious,
17:25given that he's driven the knife into her
17:27with much more ferocity, much more force.
17:29Never in a million years would you think that somebody has just randomly come and stabbed you.
17:45So it would have been incredibly shocking.
17:47This time his victim, 86-year-old Maria, died.
17:54But not before she managed to say a few last words to the nun who found her.
18:02The nun said that when she got close to her,
18:05she was laying on the floor, breathing heavily,
18:08and she said just two words,
18:09young boy.
18:11Today, one of Poland's leading coroners,
18:14Thomas Konopka, works at the same hospital where Maria's post-mortem was carried out.
18:19The post-mortem examination was conducted here, in this autopsy room.
18:27The examination showed that the wound was not deep.
18:31The wound went through the back, through the muscles, and ended in the backbone.
18:37The conclusion was, that because of the pain and shock related to the stabbing in the back,
18:47her heart gave out, and she died.
18:50The senseless murder committed by a schoolboy was headline news across Poland.
18:59Panic broke out in Krakow.
19:02People were afraid of going out in the evenings, especially women.
19:07People were warned not to go out alone, not to go alone to the church.
19:13I think it was very difficult for the inhabitants of Krakow to comprehend that a boy could be responsible.
19:27The first reaction was disbelief.
19:29The second reaction was fear.
19:33And then, in the autumn of 1964, Kot's knife attacks suddenly stopped.
19:43I think he just calmed down after he actually, for the first time, succeeded to kill someone.
19:49He would just continue going to school, going to his shooting section, just normal everyday life.
19:56Kot had got away with murder, but his deadly desires had not stopped.
20:02In fact, his murderous urges were growing.
20:06He appeared to have stopped killing for a two-year period.
20:10But during that period of time, he still would have been having violent thoughts and violent fantasies.
20:16And we can see that this is exactly the case with him.
20:21He was still bent on killing, but this time he wanted to murder en masse.
20:27So, at the end of 1964, Carol Kot changed his M.O.
20:32He turns his offending towards other outlets, setting fires, poisoning.
20:38So, he's always creating harm. He's always externalizing his trauma to hurt other people.
20:44He confessed that he had planned to kill a large number of people by changing his method to poisoning or arson.
20:54He was putting poison, for example, into a bottle of beer and leaving that bottle of beer somewhere
21:01and hoping that someone will be tempted to drink it.
21:05But, thankfully, Kot's plan failed.
21:11When you look at what he actually does, it really confirms how completely devoid of ordinary social understandings he has.
21:23He does things like go to drinking establishments, leave out drinks, half drunk, that have lethal doses of arson,
21:33and sits and waits for somebody to pick up the drink and drop dead.
21:38He doesn't have a grasp of social behavior, that people don't go around bars picking up half drunk drinks and drinking them.
21:46That's just not what people do.
21:49Kot then turned to arson.
21:55He committed at least four arsons.
21:58We only know about them from his testimony.
22:00That's because these were failed arsons.
22:03For example, he poured gasoline on some rags in a room, and he hoped it would start a fire.
22:09It did not.
22:11He tried to set an attic on fire.
22:13He said there was smoke and fire, but no inferno.
22:19Fortunately, no one was killed in any of the four fires that he set.
22:24Again, he doesn't even know how to set a fire. He can't get a whole structure to burn down to save his life.
22:32He's just trying to find a way to get death to happen, doing as little as possible, and he can't seem to figure it out.
22:41By February of 1966, 17 months after his first murder, Kot could no longer contain the urge to kill again.
22:50I think he definitely would have been fantasizing during that period about those attacks he carried out before.
22:57So he carried out some very violent attacks that had had a real impact on the local community.
23:02He created fear, and he was reveling in that. He was enjoying that.
23:06And when he came to kill again, it was going to be something horrendous.
23:09But this time, he changes direction. He doesn't target elderly women. He targets children.
23:19He goes to a local mound which attracts tobogganists, particularly children.
23:25On Sunday, February the 13th, 1966, Carol Kot was looking for an easy target when he spotted 11-year-old Leszek.
23:42He was just walking alone because he was a bit late to that competition.
23:54And Carol just was walking around looking for a victim.
24:04For Leszek, the speed of the attack would likely have been stunning.
24:10And this attack is really ferocious. So he turns the boy towards him. He stabs him 11 times.
24:18And this is a real ramping up of his offending.
24:21So he's not just killing this individual. He's using much more violence than he needs to get that job done.
24:27So this is about more than that. This is about completely obliterating someone.
24:31This is about saying, well, I can do to you whatever I want to do to you.
24:35It's about status. It's about power. And it's about entitlement.
24:38We must be grateful to some extent that stab wounds are not usually tremendously painful.
24:50They can often feel more like a punch. But it must have been utterly confusing and bewildering that somebody has suddenly started to assault you.
25:02And then very quickly, within probably seconds in this case, you will lose consciousness and die.
25:11You've gone from being a normal child, doing normal childhood things, to being a body.
25:18The autopsy later revealed that Kot had punctured every major organ in the young boy's body.
25:31The stabs were deep. The strikes damaged the aorta, the heart, the lungs and the liver. The boy had no chance of surviving the attack.
25:43As Le Sec lay bleeding to death, Kot walked away.
25:48He just left him like this and walked away.
25:53What also surprised me was that he said that he went straight to the patisserie, bought some cakes and took them home.
26:00The attack on the 11-year-old boy was a clear sign that Kot's ferocity had escalated.
26:09This is Kot in his new form. This is the fully-fledged butterfly.
26:14He's absolutely at one and determined to destroy this victim.
26:22It isn't very long before he chooses another.
26:28Krakow, southern Poland.
26:31By the end of February 1966, Carol Cott, now aged 19, had viciously attacked four people with a knife, killing two.
26:4186-year-old Maria and an 11-year-old boy, Leszek.
26:48But Carol Cott's lust for blood was far from satiated.
26:53On April the 14th, 1966, two months after he last killed, Cott struck again.
27:03His next attack is on a seven-year-old girl, so he's targeting vulnerable victims.
27:08He's targeting people who he feels he can control, who he feels he's got power over.
27:13Cott hid in the stairwell of a city tenement building and waited for a suitable victim to attack.
27:24His decision depended on who would appear.
27:27A seven-year-old girl came to the mailbox from the upstairs.
27:31He approached her, grabbed her with one hand and stabbed her with the other.
27:37He stabbed her eight times and left the girl wounded and bleeding.
27:50Incredibly, seven-year-old Malgosia survived the brutal attack.
27:54However, the psychological scars would last a lifetime.
27:59These children, because they are only just kind of forming their views of the world,
28:05their views of other people, and to be attacked randomly by someone who is also just a child,
28:13is something that will stay with them forever and is going to shape their relationships with other people.
28:17Very often, people who are attacked as children can move on from it.
28:21They can go on and have fulfilling lives and move on from their trauma,
28:25but it's something that really is going to set them off the track that they were on for quite some time.
28:34After the vicious attack, Cott confessed to attacking the seven-year-old girl
28:39to the woman he was still obsessed with, Danusha.
28:44He tells her what he's done.
28:46And I don't think this is any kind of remorse or any kind of catharsis.
28:51I think this is, look at me, look what I can achieve.
28:54You should be impressed by this.
28:57For some reason, Cott decides to boast that he has attacked the child.
29:04She doesn't believe him.
29:05She thinks it's fantasy, another of Cott's constructions,
29:12until she reads about the story in a local newspaper about the stabbing.
29:17The horrific truth then dawned on Danusha.
29:21She realises that the man, the young man she's known,
29:27may be more dangerous than she thought he was.
29:30And she talks to a psychiatrist about the confession.
29:39He advises her to go immediately to the police.
29:45Ultimately, the one person in the world who he could trust
29:49was the avenue to his being caught.
29:51For the investigators, Danusha's information would prove crucial
29:57in identifying the schoolboy killer who had plagued Krakow
30:01for the last two years.
30:03Coupled with the description given by some of the surviving victims,
30:07Carol Cott was now the police's prime suspect.
30:11But they did not immediately arrest him.
30:13In the months between April and July, they placed him under surveillance.
30:21And there was a good reason for that.
30:24They wanted to be absolutely sure that he was capable,
30:28that he was sane, and indeed they wanted him to sit his school examinations
30:32to prove it.
30:33So the police waited until after he'd finished his exams,
30:38before they arrested him.
30:40But this was a really high-risk strategy as well,
30:42because you're waiting to arrest somebody
30:46who has committed violent offence after violent offence,
30:49and I think this really did put the public at risk.
30:52In the summer of 1966, a few months after his last attack,
30:57the Polish police finally apprehended Carol Cott.
31:00And it's after his final exams in school,
31:05and I think that really does bring home how horrific this is,
31:10these horrendous crimes that have been committed
31:12by somebody who's so young.
31:14And when he's arrested, he's arrested in school.
31:16The most striking moment of the case was when Carol Cott was arrested,
31:21and everybody realised that the beast,
31:24which was everybody afraid for such a long time,
31:26for two years, was just a young schoolboy.
31:32Finally, the young man was under arrest.
31:43You could say that Krakow breathed a sigh of relief.
31:47People stopped being afraid of a killer.
31:48But Carol Cott was not ready to admit his guilt.
31:53But when he was presented to the two elderly ladies
31:57that survived the first attacks,
31:59he was instantly identified by them.
32:02He even said to one of them, the one that shouted at him,
32:06it's him, that if she wanted, he would finish killing her.
32:09Carol Cott had no choice but to confess to his crimes.
32:20Cott doesn't plead innocence.
32:24He glories in his guilt.
32:26That is exactly what he's always wanted.
32:29This is the tableau that he wanted to paint for himself.
32:33He tells them in elaborate detail about the way he killed.
32:36He bragged about these crimes.
32:39He talked about these acts like it gave him pleasure.
32:47The press give him the nickname that he must have lusted after.
32:53The vampire of Krakow.
32:55I think he wanted to forever be remembered
32:59as one of the city's most dramatic residents.
33:04I wouldn't call him dramatic, I would call him depraved.
33:08The term vampire was used, not only because he killed,
33:24but also because he drank the blood of his victims.
33:26He said openly that when he killed or maimed his victims,
33:31he took pleasure in licking the blood off the blade of the knife.
33:34I think he really would have relished being called the vampire of Krakow.
33:43This is somebody who has got quite a narcissistic element to their personality.
33:48They want to be noticed.
33:50They think that they deserve to be noticed.
33:55They're entitled to be lauded by other people.
33:59And I think having that name, the vampire of Krakow,
34:03this brings with it some kind of status,
34:05and I think this is very important for him.
34:07Soon after he was arrested in July of 1966,
34:1519-year-old Carol Cott gleefully participated in the reconstructions of his crimes.
34:23You know, police do reenactments as a common technique,
34:26and there are many reasons to do that.
34:28One of the most important reasons to do that is a reenactment is one of the ways that you determine
34:35whether or not a person claiming to be a killer is the real killer,
34:40or whether or not they're somebody who are just seeking the fame.
34:47The reenactment will show whether or not you did the crime in a way that is consistent with the physical evidence,
34:54and it allows you to be more sure.
34:56A reconstruction can be a useful thing to do.
35:01It enables witnesses' memories to be jogged.
35:03It sometimes leads to new evidence.
35:06But in this case, I think he got more out of it than anybody else did.
35:13He was actually a kind of directing all the show,
35:18and he was just saying to cameraman,
35:19or where to put lights,
35:22I'm going to stop from that direction,
35:25so that light shouldn't be here,
35:27you will not see anything,
35:29and stuff like that.
35:31He was up on a pedestal.
35:33He was important for that moment.
35:36There was a crowd of policemen around him,
35:38a crowd of people,
35:39and finally, he could start showing off.
35:40One of the policemen asked him,
35:49does it feel the same to do it all over again?
35:52He says, he said that, well, almost, but I'm missing just one thing.
35:58And police, a man asked, what is it?
36:00And he said, blood.
36:04If there were any doubts among the police officers as to Kot's guilt,
36:09the young man's reaction during the reconstructions put them to rest.
36:14It was obvious that he did it,
36:16because they made the reconstruction of all five attacks,
36:20and he was saying, he was showing every detail what exactly he was doing.
36:29He did not show any remorse.
36:32He was proud of what he did.
36:33He described the series of murders.
36:35He even showed how he licked the blood of the blade
36:38after he committed the homicide.
36:39.
36:45Carol Kot was put on trial in Krakow on the 3rd of May, 1967.
36:52Kot, killed as a schoolboy, stood trial for two counts of murder,
36:58ten counts of attempted murder, four counts of arson,
37:02all before the age of 20.
37:05In addition to his knife attacks on the two children
37:07and three elderly women, Kot was also prosecuted for the many other lives
37:13he was deemed to have put at risk in his poison and arson attacks.
37:18Obviously, everybody was in shock.
37:22His whole family and friends were in shock,
37:25that such an innocent-looking person from such a good family
37:28could do such terrible things.
37:31In all, 64 witnesses testified at the trial.
37:37Many took to the stand to vouch for the young man's character.
37:42Initially, everybody defended him.
37:47Not only his family, but even his school teachers.
37:50There is a letter in the files written by his shooting section trainer
37:54that shows his support for Kot and his innocence.
37:57But Kot's behaviour in the courtroom shocked both friend and foe.
38:07The young man who'd killed two innocent people
38:10and had attempted to murder many more relished the limelight.
38:13He was cheerful, he was laughing.
38:19While his friends were testifying, he was waving to them.
38:23You could see that on the films shot in the courtroom.
38:27He was proud then that he could perform almost like an actor,
38:31that he was the centre of attention.
38:32He was even proud of what he did.
38:37It horrifies me.
38:41During the trial, Kot displayed disdain for the pain and suffering
38:46he'd inflicted on the innocent.
38:48At the trial, he just showed a complete disregard
38:53for his victims and their families.
38:54There was an absolute lack of remorse.
38:57And that doesn't surprise me whatsoever,
38:59because here we have somebody who only cares about themselves.
39:03If he felt sorry, he would only feel sorry for himself.
39:06He'd only be sorry that he got caught.
39:09And, unfortunately, you're never going to get sympathy
39:13from somebody like this.
39:15They don't care about the mayhem that they create.
39:17They just care about what it's done for them.
39:19He showed no remorse.
39:21There was no apologies to the victims.
39:25He simply went blank.
39:28Because he was fulfilling his own fantasy of himself.
39:32He was fulfilling the painting
39:34that he'd always wanted to paint of his life.
39:37This was Kot's creation.
39:39And the killings were that.
39:43He didn't ever admit that he's feeling sorry.
39:47He was saying that to him it was moral
39:49because what brings you pleasure that is moral.
39:53And that it was his private thing
39:56that he was taking someone else's life.
39:59But he doesn't think that he is criminal.
40:02Kot soon alienated his family and friends.
40:06Had he not been caught, I think he would have just gone on to kill even more people in even more violent ways.
40:17This is somebody who enjoyed killing, who enjoyed feeling power over others.
40:22When he started to say that it brought him pleasure and he would continue to kill, the voices of support fell away.
40:37Kot confessed in detail to all of his crimes.
40:41Usually the perpetrators of such killings defend themselves, try to come up with any line of defense.
40:47He did not do that.
40:51After a series of appeals on March the 17th 1968, Poland's Supreme Court convicted Karol Kot of two counts of murder, ten counts of attempted murder and four counts of arson.
41:05When he was sentenced, the judge said of him that he was more dangerous than a savage beast because he was endowed with reason.
41:19Kot was certainly not insane.
41:22He never, for one moment, expressed an item of regret or remorse for any of his victims.
41:32At the age of 21, Kot was sentenced to death.
41:37On May the 16th 1968, the 21-year-old Carol Kot was hanged by the neck and executed.
41:47Thereby ending the story of a boy, and it's fair to call him a boy, who could truly be called one of the world's most evil killers.
42:00Till the end, even after he was sentenced to death, he said in an interview that if he were to be released, he would kill again.
42:14And Carol Kot was a psychopath. He knew what he was doing. He knew that it was wrong.
42:20There's somebody who chose to do evil. He knew the difference between right and wrong, and yet he chose to harm others anyway.
42:26The senseless and sadistic murder of the most vulnerable of victims, an 11-year-old boy and an 86-year-old woman, as well as the attempted murder of children and the elderly while still at school, makes Carol Kot one of the world's most evil killers.
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