Strangled (A martfűi rém)

Based on a true story

SHOE FACTORY

Can I walk you home?

Why did you lie that you slept at your mother's?

Why did you say that?

You know you've got no alibi for the night of the murder.

Think of something else!

Or admit it! You were seen at the scene. Understand?

Don't admit it if you didn't do it! You hear me?

Don't feel forced to admit it. Understand?

I understand, but...

Say something! Finish the story!

When are you gonna move in with me?

I'm sorry, but it's off!

But you said...

I don't want to and that's final.

But you said different!

You promised!

I got a divorce so we could raise my kid!

Ákos, I never agreed to that!

You misunderstood.

Misunderstood?

Why did you lie?!

You hear me?!

- I just thought that... - What?!

I felt sorry for you.

Sorry?

Were you at his place?!

What makes you think that?

Here...

in this exact spot.

I lay on top of her.

And she groaned: "Oh, dear God!"

Over and over.

And afterwards?

I tore her clothes off...

Don't believe it, Mother...

...I ripped her bra off...

To have intercourse, I pulled her panties off.

Like this!

The material was soft.

They could have been silk. It got me excited.

It went hard.

And it stayed rock hard...

right up until...

I had trouble getting in.

And I groped her breast.

Marika, you can stand up now.

I think I wiped the blood off on her dress.

Man, you said you wiped it on newspaper!

Is that what I said?

This is what happened, Comrade Judge!

The defendant admitted,

that after committing a murder of passion

he washed the front of his overalls at home,

that were stained with Erzsébet Patai's blood.

Then he tried to get the rest of the blood out with acetone.

Then he went to bed and slept until 5 am.

News of the murder quickly spread in the factory.

Witnesses say that the accused reacted to the news... indifferently.

I'd like to request

for the neighbour and driver be re-examined.

Comrade Judge, we've already questioned them.

Why the request?

There are contradictions

related to where and when they saw my client that night.

They were examined under oath.

I know. But, Comrade Judge...

Don't waste any more of my time!

Request denied!

This is about my brother's life!

You have to interview them 100 times if need be!

In the name of the People's Republic!

Ákos Réti, accused of murder and necrophilia,

taking all circumstances into account,

is hereby sentenced to death by hanging!

Take him down!

Ákos!

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Why did you pull me up, sir?

- I don't like drowned corpses! - I still felt fine!

- This isn't a game! - I enjoy it!

Defend yourself, you shit!

Hit me!

I told you to hit me or I'll mop the floor with your head!

Hit me! You pussy!

Easier with women, hey?

Come off it! He's too soft to give a woman a good fucking!

Stop, what are you doing?

Let me go, stop it!

No, don't do it!

Hey!

Clear off, the lot of you!

Hey! That's enough!

I said that's enough!

Get in!

Ákos Réti, is found guilty of the charges placed.

But due to alleviating circumstances and no previous charges,

the former sentence of death by hanging

will now be commuted to life imprisonment.

25 years... I'd rather die!

7 years later

Stop it!

- Hello, Ibolya! - Hello!

- Gimme a ride? - Sure, hop on the back!

Don't!

That hurts, stop it!

No... that hurts! Stop!

There's a rope on her wrist...

- But why? - I don't know yet.

I'm ordering a post-mortem.

I'm gonna take a look around...

Did you say they only reported her missing 3 days later?

It looks like she wasn't important to anyone.

We found this on the upper stretch, but...

But what?

Gáspár got his hands all over it.

I swear I'll get that idiot sacked!

You'll be able to do it in a couple of months.

Just watch and learn!

This is a dangerous place.

You'll work on the conveyer belt the first week.

Then you'll get a machine like this one.

Ági, watch you don't get your hand under the needle!

I'd give you something much thicker!

Get back to work!

That was mild for this place!

Much worse things have happened here!

She was pregnant.

In around the 4th month.

I don't remember a ring.

They don't need a ring nowadays!

Was she dead or alive before the water?

If she was alive, she'd have drowned after a couple of breaths.

The water did that...

But they look like fish bites.

Her bones are intact, so she wasn't brutally injured.

- Then could it have been suicide? - Possibly.

It would be good if you were right.

I could start my job sooner at county headquarters.

They promoted you already? So soon?

- I deserve it, don't I? - Sure, you deserve it.

Congratulations!

I didn't say until it was certain.

The only question is who's gonna boss me about now...

A student of mine. He's talented... at that, too.

Then we can close it as suicide.

Isn't it a bit odd that she killed herself in the nude?

- Can I go with you? - Not today.

Okay then!

- Isn't András coming for you? - He's too busy...

Hold it!

Harder!

Hold it harder!

- Where did they find her? - There, by my colleague.

Hey, you there! What are you doing?

You're trampling on evidence!

- Move! - We meant to help...

Fuck the lot of you!

- I need to question her! - Absolutely impossible!

Her head was struck with a blunt instrument, possibly hammer.

I think she was raped.

That's why I need to question her urgently.

Impossible! She needs surgery!

That's why the bastard“ get away...

by the time they give someone I can question!

Juhász, bring that camera over here!

Maybe the bastard came on a motorbike...

Hey! Hey, you! What are you doing here?

This is a closed crime scene!

I'm the supervising prosecutor, Zoltán Szirmai.

I want to be at all witness interviews.

All of them? Even I'm not at all of them.

Maybe you're won't, but I will be.

- Why do want to be there? - More eyes see more.

You?

- I'm a colleague, but I'll come back later. - Wait, wait!

Come in, I'm done.

- Was she raped? - No... She's got no bruises...

Is there a lover...

...a fiancé... or enemy, or something?

Don't know of any...

Here...

it'll help...

You can believe me.

I believe you.