{"id":2405,"date":"2026-07-23T13:08:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T11:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trojmiasto.online\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2026-07-23T13:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T11:29:08","slug":"v-gdyne-spustya-15-let-raskryli-ubijstvo-13-letnej-izabely-podozrevaemyj-zhil-v-eyo-kvartale-i-vospityvaet-dvoih-detej","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trojmiasto.online\/en\/gdynya\/v-gdyne-spustya-15-let-raskryli-ubijstvo-13-letnej-izabely-podozrevaemyj-zhil-v-eyo-kvartale-i-vospityvaet-dvoih-detej\/","title":{"rendered":"In Gdynia, 15 years later, the murder of 13-year-old Izabela has been solved: the suspect lived in her neighborhood and is raising two children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

W Gdyni, po niemal 15 latach, jedna z najbardziej znanych nierozwi\u0105zanych spraw w regionie zosta\u0142a rozwi\u0105zana \u2014 morderstwo 13-letniej Izabeli Strza\u0142kowskiej. Prokuratura i policja aresztowa\u0142y 37-letniego mieszka\u0144ca miasta, kt\u00f3ry zosta\u0142 oskar\u017cony o morderstwo ma\u0142oletniej w zwi\u0105zku z gwa\u0142tem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Izabela Strza\u0142kowska died on August 23, 2011, in the D\u0105browa area. That evening, the girl was accompanying a friend to the bus stop but did not return home. Her mother found her daughter's body about 300 meters from their home \u2014 between the bus stop and residential buildings. The arriving rescuers attempted to resuscitate the girl, but they were unable to save her<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The autopsy revealed that the cause of death was asphyxiation due to pressure on the neck. Investigators immediately established that the crime had a sexual nature<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The initial investigation was conducted by the District Prosecutor’s Office in Gda\u0144sk. The police interviewed hundreds of witnesses, collected DNA samples from dozens of men, and carried out numerous examinations. However, they were unable to identify the perpetrator, and in June 2013, the case was officially closed. Despite this, the search continued by the Cold Cases Department «Archive X» in collaboration with the criminal department of the Gda\u0144sk police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020, the case was transferred to the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Gda\u0144sk. Investigators re-analyzed the case materials: they prepared a nearly 300-page report, re-examined the evidence, and checked hundreds of possible versions. Over the years, more than 950 people were interrogated, over 900 DNA samples were collected, and about 150 expert studies were conducted. A total of 711 men were checked<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A turning point was the application of genetic genealogy \u2014 a method that had not been used in such investigations in Poland before. The DNA profile of the criminal was absent from police databases, however, specialists found a match with a relative of the suspect in an open genealogy database. Analyzing family connections allowed them to identify a specific man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On July 21, 2026, after the arrest of a 37-year-old resident of Gdynia, biological material was collected. Tests conducted at the Gda\u0144sk Medical University and the Forensic Research Institute named after Professor Jan Sehn in Krak\u00f3w independently confirmed a complete match of DNA with the material found on Izabela’s body in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

W chwili morderstwa m\u0119\u017cczyzna mia\u0142 22 lata. Mieszka\u0142 w tej samej okolicy Gdyni co Izabela. Nie mia\u0142 wcze\u015bniejszych wyrok\u00f3w, posiada wykszta\u0142cenie wy\u017csze, pracuje i wychowuje dwoje ma\u0142ych dzieci. Po aresztowaniu m\u0119\u017cczyzna przyzna\u0142 si\u0119 do winy, jednak prokuratura zauwa\u017ca, \u017ce g\u0142\u00f3wnym dowodem by\u0142y wyniki test\u00f3w DNA. Obecnie nie ma informacji, czy zna\u0142 zmar\u0142\u0105.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is now facing psychiatric, psychological, and sexological examinations. If found guilty, he faces 12 to 15 years in prison, 25 years of imprisonment, or life imprisonment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Gdynia, after nearly 15 years, one of the most notorious unsolved cases in the region has been resolved \u2014 the murder of 13-year-old Izabela Strza\u0142kowska. The prosecutor’s office and police have arrested a 37-year-old resident of the city, who has been charged with the murder of a minor, in connection with rape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_tm_exclude_from_home":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,142,2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gdynya","category-kriminal","category-novosti","category-proisshestviya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trojmiasto.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trojmiasto.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trojmiasto.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trojmiasto.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trojmiasto.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trojmiasto.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/trojmiasto.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trojmiasto.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trojmiasto.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trojmiasto.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trojmiasto.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}