Juraj Lupták, known as "the Slovak Strangler", was a serial killer who raped and murdered three girls aged 15 and 21, sowing terror among the women of this European country. Born on January 2, 1942, in Banská Bystrica, this criminal committed the murders between May 1978 and July 1982. And although the crime was not classified at the time, it could be said that he was a femicide. Lupták, who lived in an orphanage from a very young age, liked to spend time in the mountains, while as a young man he graduated from a mining school but never practiced this profession. At the age of 17, he fell into alcoholism and from that moment on had many problems with the law, as he was arrested for robbery and lewd acts. At the age of 36, while working as a shepherd, he committed his first murder, when he saw 21-year-old Elena Abrahámová in a meadow where he was shepherding sheep. Lupták approached her, hit her on the head with a stone, raped her, and then strangled her. The crime occurred on May 6, 1978, but as the killer hid the girl's body among dense bushes, it was not found until almost a year later, in April 1979. Until then, nothing linked Lupták to the crime, but the criminal was arrested for tax offenses and imprisoned for several years. In 1982, the multiple murderer was released and resumed his wave of crimes, always with teenage victims who were alone. On June 2, while in the forest, he saw a 15-year-old girl named Lýdia Reinvartová, who was returning from school. The subject waited for her, approached her, raped her, and then strangled her, while burying her body in a shallow grave. During the autopsy, it was revealed that Reinvartová had been buried alive, as they found traces of earth in her lungs. Lupták would later claim that he was sure the victim was dead when she was buried. The killer lost the shovel he had used to bury the victim and when leaving the crime scene, he was seen by people who first described him and later recognized him at the police station. The decomposing body of the girl was found a month later. After that discovery, and while the Police was dedicated to finding the murderer, Lupták's third crime occurred on July 18 of the same year. On this occasion, he approached Ivana Trnková, also 15 years old, but this time in the center of Banská Bystrica, where he hit her on the head with a stone and, while she was unconscious, tore off her clothes. However, he did not rape this teenager because she was menstruating. When Trnková regained consciousness, she begged him not to kill her, but Lupták, furious at not having been able to sexually abuse her, beat her and then strangled her as it was getting dark in the courtyard of the National Regional Committee building. Widespread panic took over all of Banská Bystrica, especially among women, who were afraid to go out alone on the street and were accompanied by family members, after the two murders committed in such a short time. Seeing that a large number of police had been deployed to catch the criminal, Lupták went to the mountains and stayed there for several days. Already tired of hiding, he entered a house with the intention of robbing and the uniformed officers arrested him for that crime, but when they took him to the station, the officers saw that he bore a strong resemblance to the composite sketch made from the descriptions of witnesses to the Reinvartová murder. Lupták pleaded guilty, including the 1978 murder, and during psychiatric examinations, he was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder and a sexual disorder. Beyond those pathologies, the multiple femicide was sentenced to death for his crimes and hanged on July 16, 1987, in Bratislava.