Mile Matić
Mile Matić (January 14, 1956 – August 1994) was a Yugoslav prison guard and spree killer who killed 9 people and a dog and wounded 3.[1]
Mile Matić | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 14, 1956 |
| Died | August, 1994 (aged 38) |
| Cause of death | Hanging |
| Occupation | Prison guard |
| Criminal penalty | Found not guilty by reason of insanity |
| Details | |
| Date | February 26-27 1986 |
| Killed | 9 |
| Injured | 3 |
| Weapons | RK 62, two pistols, iron, bare hands, arson |
Life
Mile Matić (Serbian Cyrillic: Миле Матић) was born on January 14, 1956 in Derventa. His father was an alcoholic. When he was 3 years old, his mother left the family. He lived in Doboj. His IQ was 162 and he was persistent in everything he did. He worked as a prison guard at the "Novi život" prison in Zenica. He practiced karate, and quickly gained a black belt. He worked as a coach in the karate section, but was fired because he stole money from membership fees. He had a lot of girls. He was an amateur photographer. He photographed naked girls and filmed erotic scenes in which he was the main actor. He also blackmailed the girls, threatening to send photos to newspapers. Acquaintances said that he was calm, kind and a little narcissistic. He loved to read crime novels, Mercedes cars, and wanted young and beautiful girls. In March 1985 he met Smiljana Vasiljević. At that time, her boyfriend was in the army. She was a third-year construction school student. At first they met, but at the end of the school year she ended the relationship. However, Mile Matić did not accept it. He watched her more and more often, waited for her near the school, and arranged for her parents to marry her. Realizing that neither marriage nor love with her will work, he openly threatened the girl and her parents, and then her boyfriend. He once told her friends, "She will not live to see the eighth of March." He often quarreled over the behavior of his sister's husband. He received dozens of complaints about threats and behavior at work. But no one paid attention to them and did not take them seriously. After two months of treatment at Zenica Psychiatric Hospital, he was released on January 16, 1985. He was discharged as a cured patient with a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. He was forbidden to come into contact with any weapons and was advised to report monthly to the Disability Commission. A similar opinion was expressed a few weeks later by a psychologist from the Sarajevo Institute of Public Health after a regular systematic examination of prison guards from Zenica. He stole these records and hid them. Even then, he had thoughts on how to get rid of people who "haunt him and who bother him."[1][2]
Shooting spree
On the morning of February 26, 1986, in Doboj, Mile Matić (30) met his wife's husband in his parents' apartment in a room he always kept locked up. They quarreled and fought. Mile Matić hit his sister's husband in the head with an iron, wrapped him in a sheet and blanket and shot him five times with a service pistol. He then got into a taxi and near the Vranduk tunnel killed the taxi driver with four shots from a pistol to the head and threw his body into the Bosna River. He removed the taxi signs from the taxi and went to Zenica to work at the "Novi život" prison. He was seen in the cafeteria with one of his colleagues, with whom he rarely talked. They agreed to go to a nearby village to pick up the girls. Then they left and Mile Matić shot him in the head near the village of Jeline. After that, he left him dead in the car, and he hitchhiked to Zenica. At about 9 pm, he changed his clothes and took an RK 62 submachine gun, a pistol, and 300 bullets in a large bag from the prison. He then introduced himself as a municipal official, got into a taxi and put a heavy bag in the trunk. He wanted the driver to take him to Vinkovce immediately. When they left the city, the driver doubted the identity of the passenger, because officials do not carry such heavy bags, do not keep their hand in their inside pockets and are not silent all the time. Because of this, the taxi driver at the gas station asked to inform the police about his passenger. Twenty kilometers later, on the road near Žepče, two police officers stopped a taxi and asked to show documents. They both got out of the car and when the taxi driver opened the trunk, Mile Matić started firing from two pistols. He killed a police officer, wounded another and wounded a taxi driver. Mile Matić went to Žepče. So he wanted to hide in the barn. The policeman found Mile Matić and the owner of the barn and took them to the police station. At the entrance to the department, Mile Matić pulled out a pistol but dropped it. Then he took out another and aimed at the policeman. But he fled to the station and raised the alarm. Then Matić ran to the next church, put on a security guard's coat, left his bag in the barn and went to Doboj. At 10 o'clock in the evening he arrived at the train station. There he asked a taxi driver to take him to the village of Poljica, saying that he was going to a friend. The taxi driver took his friend with them and they left. In Poljica he did not find his friend and told to take him to Donje Koprivne, because he had a girlfriend there. Around 11 pm a taxi driver dropped him off in this village. Then he walked to the village of Velika Rijeka. There he came to the house of Smiljana Vasiljević. There he climbed on the roof of the house went down to the attic and went down to the pantry. He went through three bedrooms all the time firing. Smiljana Vasiljevic was the first to die. Her grandfather, grandmother and mother also died. Her brother was able to jump out of bed and rushed to the door. At the same moment, Matić knocked out his teeth with the handle of his pistol, hit him in the head with a karate technique and shot him in the head with one shot. He was waiting for his father Smiljane Vasiljević until dawn, but his father went to a friend after work. At around 5 am, he killed a guard dog. Leaving Velika Rijeka, he set fire to the house, barn and garage. After that he went to the village of Zarječe. There he went to one of the houses and asked to sleep in them before the arrival of the bus. He ate and went to bed. Meanwhile, information about the killings reached Zarječe. People guessed that he could be a killer and tied him with a chain for dogs. He was then asked, "Do you know what you were doing?", and he replied, "I know I intended to continue."[1][2][3][4][5]
Aftermath
After his arrest, he was found with a list of 20 names of people he wanted to kill. Experts diagnosed him with paranoid schizophrenia. He was sentenced to compulsory treatment. He was sent to the Belgrade District Prison Hospital, where he hanged himself in August 1994.[1][3][4]
References
External links
- Gnjide Interview with Mile Matić
- Treptači svemira 1:05:27
- Najzagonetnije jugoslovenske ubice Marko Lopušina