The silence of the summer afternoon, interrupted only by the sounds of children returning from school, became the beginning of one of the most shocking criminal stories of contemporary Poland. < p > 14 June 2002 Eight -year -old Ola Bielawska disappeared in mysterious circumstances, returning from the lesson in the hometown of Biadaszki. Over the years, the investigation had a lot of return in action, suspects and tragic detail & ł & oacute; in & ndash; but one thing remains unchanged: the girl's bodies have not been found to this day.

< p > Ola was a calm, responsible student. Despite the recent move to Osowa, the last weeks of the school year decided to spend in a known place & ndash; at a school in Biadaszki. She commuted every day by bus. That day, as usual, my mother was waiting for her at the bus stop. Ola, however, did not come. Disappeared without a trace.

< P >Family and neighbors started a feverish search. It was known that the girl after school left a school bag on the fence neighbor & oacute; in and went to the meadow. The last person who saw her was a friend from the courtyard.

< p > The police first suspected Ola's father & ndash; Waldemar Bielewski & Amp; Ndash; KT & oacute; two days earlier was detained for domestic violence. An anonymous telephone indicated that M & Amp; Oacute; Gł to kidnap C & Amp; Oacute; RKA. However, the variographical examination excluded his participation. At the time of disappearance, Alibi & Amp; Ndash; was in the workshop of the brother -in -law.

< p > In the center of investigators' attention was quickly found by 24-year-old Robert B., a friend of the family. From the beginning, the man actively participated in the search and gave the police divergent versions of events. His statements aroused suspicion. A variographic examination left no illusions & ndash; Investigators had reasons to think that he was hiding something.

< p >< br />Robert B. finally confessed to killing the girl. However, his testimonies were not & oacute; Initially, he claimed that Ola had died accidentally when he hit her with a sack of feed. P & oacute; m & oacute; with a random pitch hit, and then & ndash; about suffocation after a “very bad situation” between them. He changed versions, withdrew from them, only so that the wr & oacute; < p > during one of the interrogations he confessed that he had quartered Ola's body and fed him pigs. In another, he indicated a place where he was to hide her hair. A police dog found a fragment of a scalp with red hair tied up green terry. The mother recognized them as belonging to her C & Amp; Oacute; Rki. Unfortunately, DNA & ndash could not be carried out; The remains were burned.

< p > The process of Robert B. took no hard proof Without a body, without a witness & oacute; in, without a clear version of events. The accused changed his testimony several times, and yet they were considered sufficient to charge him with & oacute; The court of first instance sentenced him to 7 years in prison, assuming that an accident occurred. The Court of Appeal increased the judgment to 25 years, but another appeal changed the legal assessment of the act.

< p > Robert B. He finally received 5 years for inadvertently causing death and 2 years for desecration of the corpse. He came out of prison in 2010.

< p > 23 years after those tragic events are still missing. The family never said goodbye to C & Amp; Oacute; Rki in a dignified way, did not burden her body. Despite the numerous searches, the places indicated by Robert B., field research and analyzes, Ola Bielawska is still considered a missing person. < br />< br />< /p > < P >

Natasha Kumar

By Natasha Kumar

Natasha Kumar has been a reporter on the news desk since 2018. Before that she wrote about young adolescence and family dynamics for Styles and was the legal affairs correspondent for the Metro desk. Before joining The Times Hub, Natasha Kumar worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella. To get in touch, contact me through my natasha@thetimeshub.in 1-800-268-7116