Three Thousand Forints: Tibor Kruchió’s Six Weeks of Murder in Hungary
September 2001, Szeged. A homeless man knocks on an old woman’s door, claims to be her son, and walks out with her money. Four days later her real son finds the body. That was only the first killing.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson tells the story of Tibor Kruchió: a drifter who, with Lajos Kocsis, murdered four people in six weeks — including their own accomplice, dumped in a well — and once shot a widow because her wallet held only three thousand forints.
A botched gas-station robbery. A bathrobe belt. Sedatives and a rug. A pub in Kiskundorozsma. Life without…
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