Gabor Bilkei

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Gabor Bilkei (* 1944 ; † end of December 2015 ) was a Hungarian - Swiss veterinarian who was convicted by a jury in 1999 for the willful killing of his wife Heike Bilkei (* 1964). The case is one of the best-known and most sensational criminal cases in Switzerland.

The Hungarian veterinarian and pentathlete Gabor Bilkei immigrated to Switzerland in 1971. When he was taking care of the young five-man fighters, in 1983, as a married man, he met the then 19-year-old Heike S., who was the girlfriend of one of his protégés. The rider and swimmer, who grew up on Lake Lucerne , began a relationship with the 20-year-old man and joined him in the practice in Dübendorf , where she worked as a cleaning lady and accountant . In 1989 she married the now divorced Gabor Bilkei and gave birth to two children in the course of their marriage.

The disappearance of Heike Bilkeis

At the end of March 1996, 32-year-old Heike Bilkei fell in love with one of her riding colleagues. When Gabor Bilkei found out after two weeks, he demanded that the relationship be terminated. A week later, Heike Bilkei took the children and moved into the shared holiday home in Emmetten in the canton of Nidwalden. She told her family that she did not intend to return to her husband.

On April 29, 1996, Gabor Bilkei appeared in the apartment, which was later confirmed by several people and never denied by him. After that, no one had ever heard from Heike Bilkei again. For six weeks, Gabor Bilkei tried to prevent Heike's family from posting a missing person report. Then the police intervened. When the home was searched, a stain was found, which prompted the officers to examine the room for traces of blood. With the luminol method , they previously uncovered large traces of blood that had been wiped away in the washbasin , on a toilet door and on the bedroom floor. Gabor Bilkei explained these traces with a hemorrhage that he suffered in front of the television on the first floor; Investigations at the specified point could not confirm this.

On July 4, 1996, Gabor Bilkei was taken into custody. When asked about his wife's whereabouts, he gave the police a wide variety of explanations. The whereabouts varied from southern Germany to South Africa , the reason for an alleged departure from drug withdrawal to pig breeding research to secretly running away with a lover. The police did not believe him, and statements by witnesses who claimed to have seen Heike Bilkei alive after April 29 could not be confirmed.

The uncertain fate of the 32-year-old veterinarian's wife attracted a great deal of attention throughout Switzerland and dominated the front pages of major daily newspapers.

Confirmation of death

On March 28, 1997, a skull was discovered in a forest near Hinwil . Comparisons with the DNA of Heike's mother and with dental x-rays confirmed that it was Heike Bilkei's skull. Gabor Bilkei, who had been released from custody two months earlier, was arrested again and charged with murder .

process

In November 1999 Gabor Bilkei was tried before the Zurich Higher Court . Prosecutor Pius Schmid was charged with 18 years in prison for murder and fraud; nine jurors and three professional judges were called up, and 136 witnesses were questioned. The material of the investigation, which was processed again during the four-week process, filled 50 federal files. During the process, Gabor Bilkei continually got entangled in contradictions. Pius Schmid remarked in his pleading: "I have been a public prosecutor for 22 years, but I have never - never - seen a defendant of such mendacity."

Due to the lack of gaps in the evidence, Gabor Bilkei was sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment minus pre-trial detention for willful homicide and fraud. The second charge of fraud had nothing to do with the Heike Bilkei case, but, according to Pius Schmid, was also included in the trial in order to document the defendant's lack of credibility. Gabor Bilkei reported a break-in in 1990 and reported paintings and carpets worth a total of 70,000 francs as stolen. In the course of the investigation into the killing of Heike Bilkei, these items were discovered again at the vet, but Bilkei had denied that they were the same pictures and carpets, although two reports confirmed this.

During his detention, Gabor Bilkei submitted several petitions for appeal to the Federal Supreme Court , but all of them were rejected due to a lack of new information. He was given a third of his sentence for good conduct and was released in January 2006. Even after serving his sentence, Gabor Bilkei denied both the killing of his wife and that the skull found was that of his wife. Bilkei was remarried and ran a veterinary practice in Dübendorf with his wife until his death in 2015. He died of cancer at the age of 71.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Hohler: The almost perfect murder. In: Tages-Anzeiger .ch / Newsnet from January 25, 2016, accessed on January 25, 2016.
  2. ↑ Gabor Bilkei died 20 years after the bloody act. In: 20 Minuten .ch from January 24, 2016, accessed on January 25, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Bilkei, Gabor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-Swiss veterinarian who was convicted of willful homicide
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
DATE OF DEATH December 2015