Aneta

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In this case, just about everything went wrong.

Okay. Let's do it.

DIRECTOR

In the Aneta Rodová case, there are many questions that can only be answered by me.

Many things happened outside of filming, off camera.

Everyone on the film crew has their own opinion about this case,

but our goal for the film was to stick to the facts available.

What your conclusion will be at the end of the film is yours alone.

But consider if you have the stomach for it, because it's not a pleasant sight.

It all started on September 20, 2014.

20 SEPTEMBER 2014

YOU ARE LISTENING TO THE ORIGINAL PHONE RECORDING.

-Prague Police Helpline, how can we help? -Hi, this is Kateřina…

Can you come right away to Nepomuckých Street in Prague?

-Nepomuckých Street? -Yea, Nepomuckých. Our friend cut herself.

-What's the house number? -749… I don't know right now.

-Is she inside or outside? -Inside.

-On what floor? -Second.

-What's the lady's name and age? -Aneta Rodová. She's 23.

-Is she communicating? Is she conscious? -She's not conscious, but just staring.

No! Aneta! Hurry!

I still need to ask you…

Did she cut her hands? Where's she cut?

She wanted to stab herself in the heart.

And she stabbed my boyfriend when he tried to take the knife from her.

My colleagues are coming. They'll also call an ambulance, okay?

-Thank you. -They'll tell you exactly what to do.

Okay.

My name's Marc Deveaux. I'm a toxicology expert from Paris.

She cut my boyfriend because he wanted to take the knife. She tried to stab herself.

WITNESS

SUICIDE?

She wanted to stab herself in the heart. And she stabbed my boyfriend.

ANETA - SUICIDE

19TH SEPTEMBER 2014

Aneta and her boyfriend had returned from vacation in Dominican Republic.

Around midnight, Aneta met up with her friends

at the COCO Bar where they drank.

And it appears they also took cocaine.

ANETA SEEMED A LITTLE STRANGE.

SHE WAS CHAINSMOKING.

Kateřina and Ahmad decided to do another line of cocaine.

Aneta didn't join in with them.

After that they got up and went to lie down.

What are you doing?

Have you gone mad! What are you doing?

NO!

What the fuck is going on!

Call an ambulance!

Hi, this is Kateřina…

Can you come right away to Nepomuckých Street in Prague?

Our friend cut herself.

Help!

-Someone's here. -Someone's already there?

-Is it the police? Put them on the phone. -Hello.

Emergency services. We're on our way. How does it look? Is the girl conscious?

-She's not. Not entirely, but is close. -What does that mean?

Her eyes are rolled up.

And when you slap her cheek, she doesn't react?

-No, she doesn't. -Is she looking? Can she turn her head?

Hey, hey! Yes, but not too well.

Your hand, please.

According to the police, Aneta suffered a fatal injury.

Self-inflicted with a knife.

But her mother thinks it was murder.

MOTHER OF THE DECEASED

September 20, 2014.

Are you ready?

Try to look back on that day. What were you doing?

That day I'll remember for the rest of my life as the worst day of my life.

I was in the forest that day with my mother.

And my phone started ringing.

My neighbor was calling to see where I was because the police were looking for me.

I thought, "Oh no, Aneta probably parked illegally and they want to tow the car."

So I said thanks and that I'd call them and my neighbor said "no."

"They're waiting here for you, Please come straight home."

So two policemen from Kladno came and told me they don't know what happened

but it's something with my daughter, but everything is okay so I should calm down.

I said, "Calm down? What about my daughter?"

They gave me the phone number to the Vinohrady hospital

and they'll tell me everything there.

Dr. Pažout told me

that my daughter had died and was in pathology.

I asked what had happened.

He told me she died from a drug overdose and alcohol.

I said my daughter barely drinks.

I then passed out. They called an ambulance.

I came to in the elevator. I said I'm not going anywhere.

First, I just need to find out what happened and where my daughter is.

At that time two other police from Prague called and said,

"Your daughter died from multiple stab wounds. She committed suicide."

There is nothing normal with this case.

CRIMINALIST, FORMER MEMBER OF PRAGUE HOMICIDE TEAM

From the start of the investigation, a whole list of items was neglected,

which are never easy to find afterwards.

If someone was or wasn't to blame for it, if it really was suicide,

or if someone took part in the suicide and if that constitutes murder.

Official Record of Explanation provided September 20, 2014.

At 11:38 Kateřina is called in for questioning.

Kateřina was a so-called friend of Aneta.

"Yesterday, September 19, 2014,

Aneta and I planned to go to a club in the center."

"I called my boyfriend, Ahmad,

who suggested we go to Club COCO on Kaprová Street in Prague."

Mr Ahmad.

That's the person who hasn't let me sleep for nine years.

"I'm married with two kids. I live with my wife at my permanent residence."

"Four months ago, I was looking for a psychologist for marriage problems."

"Thanks to that I found a girlfriend named Kateřina. Around 25 years old."

"I bought a flat for us in Letňany, on Nepomuckých St."

Jakub. Status? Single. Boyfriend of victim.

Jakub was my daughter's boyfriend with whom she went to the Dominican Republic.

"I'm dating another girl long-term that Aneta knew about. But we still dated."

"Aneta and I also had an intimate relationship."

"We landed back from vacation on Friday in Munich at 7:30AM."

"Then we flew to Vienna, landing around 10AM."

"From Vienna we took a bus to Brno. I got off in Brno

and Aneta went on alone to Prague where she arrived after midnight."

"I was with Ahmad in the club from 11PM."

"Aneta and I had agreed she'd get a cab

and put her luggage in my car parked at the club."

"Aneta arrived sometime after midnight and started enjoying herself."

"She was smiling, but she didn't dance."

"She appeared to be okay."

LAST PHOTO OF ANETA

No, she actually couldn't stand blood and didn't like real violence.

She'd only get in a bad mood when she had a headache or was sick.

But even then, she'd try to fake it.

She had a lot of friends not just from school but also outside school.

She'd go with her friends to the mountains and skiing in France a lot.

She was really popular. She was always having friends at our house.

She lived a normal life. She did sports. She went to work every day.

She didn't drink much, but she'd definitely have a glass.

I never saw her drink alcohol at home

and from the time she was 18,

she'd learnt to drive and she would drive to most parties,

so she didn't drink.

The police described my daughter as being

psychologically disturbed.

She committed suicide due to heartbreak and had lots of problems her whole life.

We were surprised since none of that was true, so it also really shocked us.

If even half was true, maybe we'd say, okay, there was a mistake somewhere.

But there really wasn't.

INTOXICATION

CERTAIN DRUGS

EXPERT REPORTS

I've been trying to understand it for eight years and I can't.

Toxic psychosis can occur

if the user consumes a large amount of cocaine over a long period of time.

If we analyze ten separate centimeters of hair,

we'll analyze ten months of consumption. They did that here.

Mostly it was the same concentration of material in all the analyzed segments.

That means that

Aneta regularly used cocaine.

But since the concentration was very low,

it wasn't an above average consumption.

But the diagnosis was already stated in the hospital. So it's really strange.

At the beginning of the questioning, I admitted all possible outcomes

and didn't rule out the possibility that my daughter killed herself.

When I got the toxicology report

and found my daughter didn't have any alcohol in her

and a small amount of cocaine, I concluded that this is bullshit.

They were working with just one version. That was intoxication and psychosis

and didn't know at all how horribly my daughter was stabbed.

That was found out after the autopsy.

I can't understand how a doctor couldn't see

three fatal wounds to the right chamber of the heart.

She was stabbed so badly. I can't understand it.

On my desktop I see loads of files.

The High Prosecutor's Office,

The High Court Prague.

There's just loads of files.

A letter addressed to the Czech Police. District Police headquarters of CSI,

212/17 Zenklova Street.

"I requested information from you, but you didn't respond at all."

"After four months, you submitted reports from experts you yourselves hired

on the basis of your statement that came from your investigation."

"I still don't know where my daughter's things are,

as the police never handed them over, including her passport."

Answers from the police after five months: "We sent her debit card to her bank

and I'm not sure about her passport. Our office is being renovated

so we are in a bit of a war zone and I can't find whether we have it here."

So he doesn't even know where the things are and what they have there.

To this day I don't know who took the knife out of my daughter or why.

First, the knife is in the bedroom,

second, on the counter, later, on the floor.

Another time Kateřina confirmed the police said to bring it from the bedroom.

Kateřina even lied to her mother

who called me to say my daughter had been unstable since childhood

and was taking pills from her psychiatrist.

And it wasn't true.

If I could ask Kateřina one question, I'd ask why she is lying.

BECAUSE SHE WANTED TO CAUSE DEATH - YES

DEATH CAUSED BY ANOTHER WAY - YES

I don't know what happened.

Medics see only surface bloodless wounds

and don't pay attention to the fact my daughter could've been stabbed.

Bloodless wounds? This is a bloodless wound?