A man who murdered a teenager he met on a bus and then had sex with her corpse said he decided to kill the 18-year-old after flipping a coin.
Wiktoria Kozielska was coming home from a party in the Polish city of Katowice when she was approached by Mateusz Hepa, who had just finished his shift at a car repair shop.
Luring her back to his flat where she fell asleep, he then decided to beat and strangle her to death with a rope before wrapping the body in plastic and calling the police.
In a chilling monologue reminiscent of bestselling book The Dice Man in which the main character makes decisions based on the roll of a dice, the 20-year-old killer said: ‘I tossed a coin, it came up heads so I killed her.
‘If it had been tails she would probably still be alive.’
Captured just hours after her body was found, he reportedly told police: ‘I felt the need to kill.’
Appearing in court in the town of Gliwice last week, the car shop repair man said that prior to the August 2023 murder, he had been thinking about killing someone and had walked around town looking for a victim.
Wiktoria Kozielska had been returning home from a nightclub in the Polish city of Katowice when she was approached by Mateusz Hepa
The 18-year-old was coming home from a party when she was lured to Hepa’s flat and killed
Mateusz Hepa appeared in court last week, admitting he killed Wiktoria in August 2023
As Kozielska’s devastated parents listened on, he said: ‘I gave her the choice of going home or to me. She decided to go to me.
‘We sat there, talked about nothing, then she fell asleep.
‘I walked around the room, tried to wake her up, but I couldn’t.
‘Then I tossed a coin, it landed heads so I killed her.
‘I don’t know why I did it. Certain things happen, but I have no influence on them.
‘Sometimes I toss a coin when I have a difficult choice.
‘I sat on her chest and started to strangle her. I chose strangulation because then there is no blood.
‘She was trying to breathe. She had no strength to fight. She tried to resist but it was too late.
The 20-year-old killer said he decided to kill Wiktoria (pictured) after a coin flip
Hepa faces life in prison, depending on the outcome of the ongoing trial
Hepa reportedly confessed to police after killing Wiktoria and having sex with her corpse
‘After I killed her, I took her clothes off her and then I had sex with her,’ he admitted.
‘Then I got dressed and tried to hide the body. I wasn’t thinking rationally.
‘I put Wiktoria’s body in a bag and wrapped it in a blanket. I planned to burn it.
‘I thought I would feel better if I committed murder.’
As he was led out of court, the victims distraught friends shouted ‘You should f***ing die’.
Local media reports Hepa had thought about taking his own life but ultimately changed his mind and called the police.
He has been held in custody since last year.
The first hearing in Gliwice was scheduled for January 8.
The trial resumes on February 12 with Hepa facing life in prison.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
