Aneta (2024)

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In this case, just about

everything went wrong.

Okay. Let's do it.

DIRECTOR

In the Aneta Rodov 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 Kateina

Can you come right away to

Nepomuckch Street in Prague?

-Nepomuckch Street?

-Yea, Nepomuckch. 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 Rodov. 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.

Kateina 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 f*ck is going on!

Call an ambulance!

Hi, this is Kateina

Can you come right away to

Nepomuckch 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 m*rder.

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. Paout 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 m*rder.

Official Record of Explanation

provided September 20, 2014.

At 11:38 Kateina

is called in for questioning.

Kateina 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 Kaprov 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 Kateina. Around 25 years old."

"I bought a flat for us in Letany,

on Nepomuckch 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 k*lled 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 w*r 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 Kateina confirmed the police

said to bring it from the bedroom.

Kateina 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 Kateina 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?

The police didn't look at why the records

from the medic say it was bloodless.

Who cleaned after her?

When someone commits suicide,

they don't wipe the floor.

This is really something different.

The next official record says that

hotline 155 was received by 158.

Message: deeply unconscious.

Stab wound to the heart.

-Emergency services.

-Operations center.

We need you in Prague.

A lady's stabbed and unconscious.

Said to be stabbed in the heart.

-Her eyes are rolled up.

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

Not very well. Press on her, would you?

The doctor himself told me

he doesn't know what happened.

He heard they were cleaning up the drugs

and it was strange to him that it took

the ambulance a long time to leave

and he urged them to several times.

"If they were cleaning up the drugs,

it fits with what one doctor said

that someone else left the flat.

Nobody has verified this information."

And I could continue on like this after

reading three out of the fifteen pages.

If I could ask Ahmad one question,

I'd ask why my daughter had to die.

Have you gone mad! What are you doing?

Nobody's responded to these letters.

Nobody's talked to me about this.

Since the beginning,

I've felt completely alone in this.

But this is my journey, my battle.

Okay, next

"My first look at the records

wasn't possible until the end of July,

despite it being closed on April 17, 2015,

and that's just because it

started attracting media attention."

According to police, she committed suicide

by stabbing herself 9 times in the chest.

It's definitely not a typical case.

Mr Doucha says the case should've been

treated as a m*rder investigation.

-But that wasn't the case.

-If the death seems suspicious,

it's investigated as a m*rder and

once all factors suggest that it's not,

you can then assess it as suicide.

This whole case gives me the impression

that the police set it up

the complete other way.

The whole case could actually one day

be doomed to remain unsolved.

"Police pathologist, Bulovka hospital."

They take her for a private autopsy.

The whole time

they didn't allow me access.

I waited three weeks before

I could even see my dead daughter.

The record of cuts on her hands differed.

In one document there's two,

another has three.

"In connection with the wounds

to her chest, it was later discovered:

internal bleeding

in the chest cavity on the left side,

total collapse of her left lung,

meaning she could no longer breathe."

Shocking changes to the kidneys."

"Breathing vomit into the lungs.

Subcutaneous hemorrhages."

"This injury arose from

blunt force trauma."

And this is a suicide. Amazing.

The Municipal Prosecutor's Office

who identified the protests as unfounded,

re-assessed the actions of

the police due to the complaints.

All of this is bullshit.

If I could ask my daughter one question,

it'd be why were you around these people.

To say "everything was explained," really?

Everything is explained?

That's the approach I'm talking about

that I don't like.

That it's being downplayed

and underestimated.

And when a dispute arises,

if it was like this or like that,

nobody will ever explain it

because they don't have

enough concrete material.

That's really bad.

The police failed. The medic failed.

The Public Prosecutor failed.

All involved.

But I ask why? Was it on purpose?

ATTORNEY

For a circle of people who were

sharing their solution to the case,

we must note that there were many,

meaning there's a team of police

working on the case

who are using a whole set of specialists.

There's doctors and lab experts.

If we want to doubt the conclusions

of the police and their work,

it would have to be

the failure of the whole system.

One small error could not influence the

investigation results in such a big way.

-What the f*ck is going on!

-Have you gone mad!

These pictures behind me.

This is from vacation in Egypt

and this is from the last trip

to Dominican Republic.

She always had such a nice

positive approach to everything.

So I like remembering this.

I always see her smiling, her good mood.

That's what I miss.

Telling someone what happened is awful.

And speaking about it is very hard.

It's impacted my personal life.

Not only mine, but the whole family.

It's impacted my sister, my mother.

I'd say this destroyed all our lives.

When my ex-husband

and I talked about it, he told me

that concerning the circumstances

that surround the case

He's got his own family and other kids

so logically he's afraid.

He's afraid for his family's safety,

his children's.

So he doesn't want to

get involved in this at all.

In a chapel where they brought her

Her face That wasn't Aneta.

I aged 30 years in that moment.

I took her hand.

She was so cold. The hand was pale.

Her nails broken.

And I remember her neck.

Her whole neck

was sewn up from the autopsy

and then I just had to leave,

and I vomited outside.

Who really pissed me off?

Definitely the Public Prosecutor

and investigator Uelk.

Mr Uelk said to me:

"Ah, you're the mother. Here, sit."

That's how he greeted me. It was clear

he wasn't too happy to have me there.

"Look at yourself. Something will suddenly

happen and you'll commit suicide too."

I looked at him and said:

"Excuse me? You've got to be kidding me?

How dare you."

So I looked at him and didn't get

how he could talk to me that way.

Then I said, nicely, "See you."

He said, "Goodbye."

That was my meeting with Mr Uelk.

FORENSIC PATHOLOGISFLORIDA AUTOPSY SERVICES

My name is Petr Konen. I'm a journalist.

And I've been looking into the death

of Aneta Rodov for ten years.

THE STRANGEST SUICIDE ON EARTH

Call it a journalist's addiction. I think

we never had such a suicide case before

and of course I remember the headlines.

How it appeared in

the spectrum of media outlets.

Of course it was a big topic

we all wanted for ourselves.

Everyone wanted to write about it, to get

something extra the rest didn't have.

A lot of journalists when they started to

collect this information into a mosaic,

they'd say, "This is a big topic, hiding

some dark story. We have to uncover it."

We have a conflict of mother and police,

family and the system.

Mrs Rodov was 100% convinced her daughter

would never do anything like that.

ATTORNEY

I have no reason not to believe her

and to this day I am convinced Miss Rodov

had no reason to leave like this.

We aren't talking about

if it was technically possible.

That's a whole separate chapter.

We're talking about

the psychology of Miss Rodov.

So when she came to my office,

it was about giving hope that

we'd try to find the person responsible

and to find out what happened.

We set out on our own

to find out how it was possible.

We even met with a famous

professor Strauss about biomechanics.

Then we met with other

experts, pathologists, toxicologists.

Mrs Rodov, the mother of Aneta came to me

and together with other experts

EX-INVESTIGATOR/DETECTIVE AGENCY OWNER

we filed a complaint to the ruling

and justified it from our own professions.

My record alone is several hundred pages

and now I think more than 500.

Expert reports, specialists' critiques,

decisions of law enforcement. It's a lot.

The police neglected a lot of things.

The drugs and their quantity

were not addressed.

Samples weren't taken from the wall

or the floor. Whose blood was it?

Were there four or three people?

Does the blood belong to someone else?

It definitely raises some doubts

about what happened at the scene.

She lost in one court after another.

She made Ahmad explain the drugs in court.

She even arranged for the medic

treating her lifeless body at the scene

to explain why

they didn't give a lot of information

needed to clearly identify

the cause of death.

And if that weren't enough,

it took them more than two hours

to go from the apartment to the hospital.

That means, where did the body go

and who was involved?

We wanted to reconstruct the crime to

show what actually happened at the scene.

We were told that the flat

had been sold so it couldn't be done.

We put forward the expert report from

forensic biomechanics, Mr. Strauss.

The Senior State Prosecutor rejected

my complaint that it wasn't needed.

We wanted the shirt she was stabbed in.

They said they'd give it to us once they

finished, but then they couldn't find it.

We wanted the material

for our own examination.

They aren't used to someone coming and

asking why they didn't do this or that.

"You didn't find the taxi. Don't you know

there are cameras in the building?"

"There are cameras? Oh!"

The police didn't question the neighbors

who said they claimed to hear an argument.

They heard a foreign language.

Absolutely in conflict with

Ahmad and Kateina's description

of them sitting calmly and chatting.

They definitely didn't mention yelling.

They came from a party around 3 or 4AM.

Wild mornings. You could hear a threesome.

NEIGHBOR

A threesome like two girls,

one man, like sex?

No.

The police do nothing.

They have something we could use

and they don't want to give it to us

and we can't use it either.

It's as if they are trying

to complicate things.

It doesn't suit them that

Mrs Rodov and I are still bothering them.

If there'd been a recreation or evidence,

it'd be clear for some reason

because the evidence wouldn't be needed.

That's why it "wasn't necessary" to secure

blood trails, because for what, right?

I'd be interested in the blood trails.

I'd be interested where his were.

Well, okay

We sent the Czech Police a letter:

"Why weren't all blood samples taken

and examined from the scene?"

"We don't know to whom

several of the blood trails belong."

Response: "There was no objective reason

to collect every blood trail

when there were objectively

only two people injured at the scene."

"How the blood trails were collected

at the scene fits the events

and the movement of

people around the apartment."

CRIMINAL LAW

If you say you're investigating something

like suicide, that's how you'll proceed.

When you say you're investigating m*rder,

that's how you'll proceed.

But it's the same as if

you're investigating a car accident.

If we see that the police

were following the one version of suicide,

the experts de facto

responded to one question.

Could it have happened? It could've.

The expert reports worked

to discard any objective doubts.

They should've decidedly glued Mrs.

Rodov's mouth shut. "Don't ask anything."

"It was suicide.

"We have the reports. It's clear. Period."

I can't come to terms

with making clear conclusions

about her mental suffering

without her being able to react.

I've got a friend

who's a traffic accident expert,

and he says he's able

to tape off an accident

anywhere two meters to the left

or right, without a problem.

Meaning cars going in whatever direction.

This is precisely how expert reports work.

Why do you think it was

investigated as a suicide?

You have to ask the police.

In my opinion,

it started to be treated as a suicide

because the only two witnesses at

the scene described the act as a suicide.

When and on what basis

was it decided in this case

that Kateina and Ahmad

are labelled as witnesses?

Police response: "Those named

had reported what Aneta had done,

and testified to what they saw and heard."

"As there were no suspicious conditions

discovered at the scene,

which would indicate another person

was involved in harming the victim,

they were taken as witnesses."

"A witness is a person who presents

a fact relevant for criminal proceedings

experienced by their own senses."

"The witness can remember it

and is able to recreate it,

which is the case for both named persons."

SUICIDE

They didn't interviewed Ahmad

because he had an injured hand.

At his request he is sent to

a psychiatric clinic for four days

with no limitations because

he hasn't been charged with anything.

He's got his phone with him

and can talk to whomever he wants.

They take photos of the flat, document it,

but don't seal it so anyone can come.

That means with his phone, from the clinic

he can get anyone not just to wipe it

down, take away cocaine, but anything.

How could they let him keep his keys?

If you're working with the version of

suicide, why seal off the flat

where there was no crime according to

the first investigating version?

Meaning that what we said at the start

if you set the version as a suicide,

of course it would look strange for

a m*rder, but for a suicide, it wouldn't.

This specific case I would personally

say qualifies as a suspicious death.

If this man who was there

is questioned several days later,

it can't be ruled out that those two

had time to get their stories straight.

You can't rule this out. Certainly not.

In my opinion, there's lots of conflicts

and conflicts in criminal proceedings

should be set aside.

Either in pre-trial

or criminal proceedings or in court.

CANCELLED

Aneta left the COCO bar, called a taxi,

got into the taxi and drove off.

First, she calls her friend, Andrej.

It's almost morning. He doesn't answer.

After that she calls the police.

20.SEPTEMBER 2014

CANCELLED

But she doesn't get through

and we don't really know why to this day.

It seems strange to me when

someone calls the police,

they're in danger and two hours later

dead and allegedly committed suicide.

I think a person who commits suicide

definitely doesn't call the police.

The doubts she created with her legal team

were made public everywhere.

It was even said the Minister of Justice

had the case file on his desk.

"sh*t, we have to do something with this."

This has influenced politics.

Because the case isn't normal

it causes a big sensation

and puts pressure on the State Security

Council, where the case has reached.

They also shook their heads. How can

this happen in a place like Czechia?

This pressure led the High Prosecutor

to open the case again after two years.

Due to doubts.

Today, June 2, 2016.

It's 9:53AM

and I commence this re-enactment.

The persons undergoing this re-enactment

Ahmad is a huge mystery

for all of us journalists.

When did he come to Czechia? When did

he move here if he has Czech citizenship?

If his family came here? The sources

of his income? He never talked about that.

There's one notable point that's left out

because it's a long shot.

It's the theory that Ahmad was

an informant for the police. A rat.

COCO Bar was known

as the place to deal drugs.

The bosses of the drug cartels

would meet there.

This is why the police are hiding it.

Why did they treat this case so hastily?

For the reason of protecting their source.

The people undergoing this re-enactment

Kateina is a friend.

She isn't a childhood friend.

She was a friend she met two years before

at a language school.

She had a boyfriend, a rich boyfriend.

A foreigner who was married,

but he supported her, got her a flat,

a car, etc He took her on vacation.

During this time, she was in Lebanon.

There she became the second Muslim wife

of the entrepreneur Ahmad.

She converted to Islam so he could

take her to Lebanon and show his family.

So she had to appear as a second wife.

But they argued. She probably wanted

him to leave his wife and be with her,

to confess, to end the infidelity.

Aneta, as I understand from statements

from friends, was a shoulder to cry on.

The re-enactment is taking place here.

It's a meeting room on the first floor.

We tried to make the re-enactment

as similar as possible to the flat.

A fake knife. Then there's cups, a paper

towel, a tape measure and more.

Where there's a gap is

the entrance to the bedroom.

This is the living room and if needed,

there's the door leading to the balcony.

I got into the apartment two years after

and it hadn't been sold.

When we asked the police

to do the re-enactment in the apartment,

it wasn't allowed

and the apartment still hadn't been sold.

I don't get why they did it in a meeting

room which looked completely different.

-You all came back. Then what happened?

-We came in and sat down.

I sat here. Aneta here and Ahmad here.

Katka here, Aneta here.

She said something. There was someone

at the club who wanted to k*ll her.

She was always afraid there

and she couldn't explain why.

And then she said I want to k*ll her.

I know the recent period wasn't the best

because she was dealing with a boyfriend

who had a girlfriend of six years.

Did Aneta ever act like this in the past?

I really didn't know her that well.

This time we took a line of cocaine,

maybe two. Katka and I.

-Like this, a long line but it was weak.

-I offered Aneta but she said no.

-Are you a regular user?

-No.

-How often do you use?

-Twice a month.

These two under the influence of cocaine

and alcohol are trustworthy witnesses.

Nobody filed a report on them.

Only a psychological report was done

on my daughter who was dead.

She was smoking a lot. And always pacing.

When she walked, she always went here.

I think she was checking

that I haven't got a knife there.

I remember going to the bathroom.

-Ahmad stayed here or I don't know.

-So please mark where you went.

-And why did you go to the bathroom?

-I was sick.

Sick how?

In my stomach.

I thought I'd throw up, but I didn't.

-You didn't throw up?

-No.

When she didn't come to check on me,

I knew she was in the kitchen

but I didn't know what she was doing.

-How long were you there for?

-A short while.

When I came back, Aneta was sitting in

my seat. They were talking together.

I listened a bit and I heard her

tell Ahmad, "So do it. I'm ready.

Do it. I'm ready. You can k*ll me."

I told Aneta to go get some rest

or if she wants to call a taxi.

If you don't have enough money,

I'll give you some and she went like this.

Yeah?

You want me to call a taxi

so I leave so they k*ll me outside.

You know what? I'll sit here.

So please, k*ll me here.

I won't go to the street.

-What happened to her?

-I don't know. I really don't.

I'm telling you everything that happened.

I said, "Aneta, calm down.

Go lie down. You're exhausted,"

and I went into the bedroom

and Ahmad came right after me.

We stood opposite one another.

He told me he was going for a drink

and I didn't have time to even lie down.

I was standing here.

In the original questioning in 2014,

when the police started the investigation,

Kateina said she'd laid down and slept.

A noise had awoken her from the kitchen.

Now two years later,

she remembered it slightly differently,

claiming it matches with Ahmad's version.

They said goodbye. They're going to sleep.

And she instantly starts stabbing herself.

You're sitting at a table with someone.

Two go to bed and you get up,

pull a kitchen knife out of the drawer

and start stabbing yourself.

I went for a glass of water.

I look up and see Aneta there.

She's doing something I can't quite see

from a distance. She's doing this.

That was what you peel fruit with.

The small orange knife.

Probably about this size with teeth.

If you wanted to hurt yourself,

and thought about it seriously

you'd choose a knife for cutting meat.

With this knife you'd have bigger

problems than if you used this knife.

This is even bigger. The blade is

much wider. And it had teeth.

You imagine knives with teeth

will hurt more.

She turned around here.

I wanted to catch her like this

and she went here behind the table

and I see her still doing this.

From Kateina's questioning we hear Aneta

was holding the knife with both hands.

Ahmad should've been defending

the stabbing from behind.

When he went in, I didn't hear screaming.

No, no, no, no! And I ran right in.

But in the re-enactment, they don't speak

about it and show a different situation.

Now I saw Aneta is holding

the knife in her right hand

and that she keeps turning away from him

and keeps turning and turning.

Maybe she didn't want me to catch her.

For a moment she said that he caught me.

Together we were kind of like this,

and we moved like this.

-How are you doing?

-Okay, fine.

Are you able to do more today or?

-According to what.

-Want some fresh air? What would help?

I don't know.

Again I see so many things

that nobody is answering for us.

I took the knife like this in this hand

and gave it back like this.

She kept stabbing herself.

I tried taking it again

and I got stabbed right here.

The knife went here and here.

Despite the knife having teeth, all of her

wounds were cut with a straight blade.

The only one that was caused by a toothed

knife is the one Ahmad had on his hand.

This cut matches the toothed knife.

I screamed at her so she'd notice me.

I remember that and she came right at me.

Yes, she said she went

at me with the knife.

They were best friends. Is that right?

That's what they say.

But it's not like that.

Here it interferes with

the fates of others.

If it was a suicide,

the two that were in the room with her

will still now be suffering from

the fact that they are suspects.

At the re-enactment

there were no other options tested.

She could've been sitting

or stabbed from behind.

They could've started stabbing like this.

Two people could've stabbed her.

Several of the wounds could've

been made after she was dead.

They didn't speak about

the cut marks on her hand.

-When did they get there and how?

-She even had hematoma on her head

as if someone hit her

or pushed her on the ground,

but the hematoma had to

come from somewhere.

It could also be a possibility

that Aneta really took the knife first

but in self defense.

If someone was holding

the knife behind Aneta,

there would be a similar movement

to the chest, so it's definitely possible.

There's just the question of armlength.

How far can your arm reach?

According to the autopsy,

the wounds were made like this.

Nobody could stab themselves like that.

She'd have to do it like this.

-Look, there's a situation.

-I'd stab myself like this, not across.

-I'm 6 ft 6. How tall are you?

-5 ft 6.

That means I could do it.

Ahmad was much smaller.

5 ft 6. He was smaller than Aneta.

For me it'd be more probable

if she was sitting.

Plus one of the stabs, the knife

to the heart turned a bit at the end.

For that, one who's never stuck a knife

into meat needs to develop

a lot of physical strength.

He's just not experienced.

I was told that turning the knife

when a person is bleeding,

can be done either by soldiers

or people who really

have a lot of practice with these things.

That a normal person could never turn

the knife like this in the heart.

-So any more questions?

-Not from me.

What we did explains well

the stab wounds on the chest.

So how the witness performed,

how the injuries happened, it's possible?

It is.

It's 11:52 AM. I'm concluding

today's re-enactment.

No blood samples exist

and we don't know

how much cocaine Ahmad took.

We don't know what state

he could've been in.

And that's a big problem

that we'll never be able to answer.

We've asked the Police of Czechia:

"Why weren't Ahmad and Kateina's

blood samples taken

to know to which degree they were

under the influence of drugs?"

Response: "They were neither

suspects nor victims."

"As witnesses they testified that

despite the influence of drugs

they admitted consuming,

they still remember the event."

"So, there was no legal objective reason."

Our friend suddenly took a knife

and wanted to stab herself in the heart.

-And did she stab herself?

-She didn't, but she's lying on the floor,

staring and making a strange noise.

-Is she whirring?

-Yea, she's whirring.

We arranged that we would have

another autopsy done.

She wished I personally take part in it.

The doctors opened up the body again.

The organs were stacked up

and now comes the moment

when one doctor looks at the other.

I didn't understand

and he says, "Hey, does this look normal?

We're missing something."

And I ask, what's missing?

I say, "Hold up, guys, but we need

the heart. That's really important."

"Is it normal that the heart isn't there?"

We talked for half an hour about

where the heart was. We didn't have it,

so the doctors couldn't determine

how the knife pierced the body

and I think that it was

the determining element

of the whole criminal proceeding

that, without the heart,

it would be very difficult to prove

if a third person was involved

or if it was a voluntary

departure from this life.

We asked the police

about the missing heart.

"Is it common practice that certain

organs, in this case the heart,

are removed during an autopsy?"

"What are the usual procedures

for handling organs after an autopsy?"

Response: "The heart was further examined

and remained in

the Institute of Forensic Medicine,

where the initial autopsy was performed."

"If the Institute of Forensic Medicine

did not request it,

it's a question for this institute

why it did not do so."

"At the institute, it was dealt with

like any other human remains.

The former term is bio-waste."

They just threw it away.

MEDICAL EXAMINER PERFORMING SECOND AUTOPSY

If there hadn't been this second autopsy,

we wouldn't have discovered this.

HEART NOT FOUND IN BODY

Not finding the heart in a second autopsy

was really uncommon.

It completely shocked us.

And to some extent it even complicated

the evaluation of the whole case

considering whether it was

a m*rder or suicide.

I don't recall any of

our autopsy technicians

ever forgetting

to return an organ to the body.

It's something completely unimaginable.

Despite urging our colleagues

who performed the original autopsy,

the heart was not returned

and we were unable to judge

how it was damaged.

How can it happen

Yes, it seems to me really implausible.

Sure it seems the same to us both.

It's the next puzzle piece that doesn't

lead to someone committing suicide,

but leads to it not being as described

and that is a big difference to say

if there's effort to point at somebody

or refute it happened as they describe.

The police have again closed the case

stating Aneta committed suicide

under the influence of toxic psychosis.

-Emergency services.

-Operations center.

We need you in Letany.

We have a woman stabbed and unconscious.

-Supposedly been stabbed in the heart.

-Stabbed in the heart? What's the address?

Nepomuckch 749/15.

They say she's on the second floor.

The one stabbed is Rodov.

-Rodov. How old is she?

-23 and she's unconscious

23 and she's unconscious. Stabbed.

So I'll take you now to Ahmad's flat.

Mr toek is an amazing criminologist.

A retired expert.

He gives interviews and comments on cases.

He's a consultant.

He works on screenplays for

Czech TV for criminal cases

so he's enjoying his retirement as

a crime scene celebrity. We all know it.

I've heard about this case,

concerning the death of Aneta Rodov.

This has been examined for a long time.

The m*rder can look like a suicide.

But also suicide can look like m*rder.

But concerning this case,

I think the decision was correct

because there are certain things

that are connected to suicide.

This is the kitchen table where the three

of them sat that night until morning.

They were chatting, drinking water.

Ahmad and Kateina took cocaine here.

There were blood stains here.

A shoe print of blood here.

There was blood even here

probably from his hand

-because the blood was even here.

-Or it could be when she slit her wrists.

Let's say that she cut herself,

so it could be from that and then on the

balcony she saw that nothing is happening.

Blood is flowing

but not as she'd imagined,

so she came back into the room.

In case the death wasn't voluntary

and Ahmad had a part to play in it,

she would've defended herself. When it's

life or death, you make every effort.

There's adrenaline.

You have a lot more strength.

The glasses on the table

would've either fallen

or be turned over.

Yes, turned over chairs.

It would look different.

How would a m*rder look is another

question, but there would be a circus,

one person wouldn't have

been able to just k*ll her.

NO INJURIES SHOWED SIGNS OF SELF DEFENSE

I'll ask one more thing.

Here we have photos of Ahmad.

He was wearing a t-shirt and barefoot.

Isn't it strange that both feet are clean.

When we see here there was a battle,

clearly blood was spread around.

In theory there should be blood

on his feet from stepping in it,

but maybe he wiped his feet somewhere.

He must have also wiped his hand.

They can't just stay there in the flat,

standing, sitting and bleeding, you know.

So the amount of blood

on the scene seems normal.

You can assume that

she was bleeding internally,

into her chest cavity.

That also happens

but you see that

there was quite a bit of blood there.

The police didn't have

the power to choose.

Based on how it looked,

it couldn't have been m*rder.

I always have the rule

when you have a questioning.

From the questioning you always

have to cut out the beginning and end

and take just the conflict

because that's always different.

In such emotional cases

when someone says something

and now quickly describes it,

sometimes they don't remember

and now they're just making it up.

What's important, I don't know

if you have it, but probably,

-is the recording of the emergency call.

-Yea, but he's not on the recording.

And on the other hand she acts like

someone who has just come onto the scene.

It's obvious that she didn't know what

had happened. That's what I think.

Because when they ask if she was stabbed,

she can't see the stab wounds.

In the re-enactment that the police did

due to the mother's pressuring,

she acts as if she'd seen everything.

He was holding her like this.

She even came after him, so she might

have wanted to help him under pressure.

It could be him

so she could be influenced by that.

Of course the case has been in the media,

but you say they have

to agree in the conflict.

I don't think he's the culprit.

It's hard to say.

-She didn't stab herself, did she?

-I don't know.

m*rder, suicide, suspicious death.

In all cases it's necessary

to treat it as if it were a m*rder.

And the police officer who arrives

at the scene must make the decision.

He must be experienced enough,

to know that this is

beyond his capabilities

and that he must call up a specialist.

In this case, the Crime Scene Unit.

Of course, throughout the whole time,

everything needs to be secured.

Nobody apart from the specialists

should be allowed to enter the apartment,

not until they say

they're done with the scene of the crime.

Then, the investigator from the

First Homicide Division can look around.

Do you think there's a real chance

it'll open back up?

In my view, there is a chance,

but it's not up to the lawyer.

The lawyer is the instrument but

what's going to open it up, that's key.

It's the expert reports

and it's the biomechanic one.

That is what's disputed against the topic

of the autopsy reports,

against how the autopsy was conducted,

meaning really building the apartment

or kitchen in the dimensions it was.

To try to tell someone it really played

out as they described in those versions.

Let's play it out how they did at

the re-enactment and do it in full force.

Let's not do it that

a fist flies like this

The fact is that you are one

of a few people who were in the apartment

so basically you can say

what you think about it.

Let's move on. Let's do the first step.

Shall we go inside? Let's do it.

The hallway.

-Does anything come back when you

-Yes, a little.

It's giving me goosebumps.

-Hello.

-Hello.

-I'm Aneka Matunsk.

-I'll introduce myself too.

-Okay, don't take it personally.

-I understand.

-Sorry.

-Sure.

-I guess you understand who plays who.

-I do.

The concentration of cocaine was so low

that it couldn't induce

psychosis immediately.

She didn't have signs of being clean

because she'd taken a bit of

cocaine in the COCO Bar.

So I can't explain what happened

from a toxicological perspective.

A toxicologist can't say if someone

committed suicide due to narcotics,

even less with a knife. I can't do this.

I'm saying that

I can't come to a conclusion.

The task of a specialist is to say

yes or no or it's inconclusive.

From WhatsApp chats

the Czech Police presented me,

it seems Ahmad is a real coke addict.

He's receiving psychotherapy

for his hot temper.

How could he play a role

in this story as a legitimate witness

with his mental state?

In all media outlets, it's presented

that he has problems with drugs,

with mental issues.

We don't know what he had

in his blood at the time.

If the investigation hadn't ended,

we wouldn't be able

with certainty to close it.

There will always exist some doubts.

Can we rule out

toxic psychosis with certainty?

I don't mean ruling out suicide but

under the influence of toxic psychosis.

There's a question for both.

It stands out to me that in this case

the police really made mistakes

they could not fix.

It was like catching a cat by its tail.

And the cat got away.

Ahmad was under a lot of pressure because

his wife found out about his affair

and he was under pressure from Kateina.

That night he was at dinner

with a mafia boss friend

and they were fighting

because of the wife.

He then went to the COCO bar and treated

his aggression. That's in the records.

HE'D OFTEN BLOW UP IN RAGE IN SECONDS

So we know about him

and the same about Kateina.

She's an as*h*le and that's from

questioning friends about her behavior.

In the news report from Josef Klima

was the testimony that Ahmad

could be a police informant.

Do you think this could be possible?

Look, you can't rule it out.

The question is

what is a police informant.

During the period of

deep totalitarianism, yes,

but today you're looking at

a current informant.

That means I'll take a picture of Ahmad

and go to the COCO bar

and if they don't k*ll you at once,

maybe someone will say,

"Ahmad deals drugs here."

I don't know.

At the time I regarded him

as a very influential and rich person.

Where did he get his money from?

The police never found out these facts.

They didn't look into his past in Lebanon

so we don't know if he k*lled anyone.

We just don't know anything about it.

The family is convinced

that it was a m*rder.

And nobody will prove to them otherwise.

The police will claim that

it actually wasn't m*rder.

And nobody will prove to them otherwise.

But there's still this dead young girl.

And maybe there's even

someone here guilty of m*rder.

If you were 100% convinced that it

was suicide as the police describe,

would you say it to the mother's face?

We've got our actors Aneta,

Ahmad and Kateina.

We have experts on

biomechanics and pathology.

In the kitchen is only Aneta.

Ahmad and Kateina go to the bedroom.

I'll ask you to take out the knife.

She knew where the knife is

because she's been in the flat before.

She takes it into her hand

and I'll ask Ahmad who is coming back

from the bedroom to the kitchen

for a glass of water

to come into the situation

where Aneta is already stabbing herself

with her right hand to

the left part of her chest.

He screams "No!" and starts

grabbing for the knife.

She is still stabbing herself

and he is trying to take the knife.

At that moment she stabs him in the hand

and she continues stabbing herself.

One version is that Ahmad reaches for

the knife and attacks Aneta

who is sitting and completely unaware.

That means you take the kitchen knife,

go over to her from behind and will try to

stab her in the left part. Into the heart.

Try to catch her so she can't

defend herself. You defend yourself.

Just like that.

How would it look if one person,

let's say Kateina, was holding Aneta.

Holding her hands, so she can't defend

herself. Just catch her hands. Like that.

He was holding her and laid her

on the ground so she didn't fall.

When someone's wrist is cut,

can they hold a knife in their hand

and stab themselves

with such brutal strength

to get the knife through the rib cage?

When did she slit her wrists? When she was

fighting with him or when they went to bed

because he actually says

that he returned after a minute.

He just entered the bedroom

and went right back.

So my daughter

was there alone half a minute.

I don't know which of the wounds

were post-mortem and which weren't.

Nobody can answer that.

I don't know if the first blow

was fatal or the others.

Is it possible that they could

live two more hours?

I could definitely explain how it would be

if a third person attacked so

that Miss Rodov couldn't defend herself.

I could easily believe one of the three

fatal wounds was one of the first wounds

which the attacker clearly

didn't have to know.

Then we can discuss why the other ones are

shallow, the ones after the fatal ones.

If someone wants to hide the traces.

I just don't know.

They write the wounds were surface and not

bleeding and when I look at the blouse,

I don't understand it.

Why weren't blood samples taken?

The conclusion of the experts is

that with respect to

biomechanics and pathology,

there's the chance that

my daughter could've done it herself.

With respect to psychology and toxicology,

toxic psychosis can clearly be ruled out.

My daughter was extremely fit.

That's why we were all so shocked

about what may have played out there.

But all experts agree

it was bad police procedure.

And thanks to that

we actually don't know what happened.

Mistakes are made.

We're only human of course.

We're only human.

But it's about making the smallest

mistakes. Not ones like these.

Not in these fundamental issues.

And in my opinion, here there were

mistakes made in fundamental issues.

Most importantly, the one working on this

didn't know what he was doing.

You all made an error.

You didn't do your job and now

we aren't able to find out the truth.

But I just don't understand

how all of this here could have happened.

Police don't usually apologize.

But in my opinion,

these mistakes were made by the police.

My name is Miroslav Krutina.

I'm a lawyer.

If I could react to the new expert reports

done by the international experts,

the psychological report

introduces a discrepancy

and suggests that Aneta's intoxication

is very unlikely to be

the cause of her death.

What we're making is a tool not to forget.

And if a whole group of people

don't agree with how it ended up,

we need the media to show that

there can be mistakes,

either on purpose or genuine error.

It enables people to think about it

and it can happen that more

new information appears

based on any media coverage

and any sources of information

that lead to Mrs Rodov

one day getting her answer.

I think that he had the psychosis.

Is he influential? Yes?

But nobody knows what he did in Lebanon.

And now he's escaped back.

He's there now

and we have no way to extradite

and he's convicted

for a criminal act for five years.

I don't know a mother who would

come to terms with her child dying.

The fact that my child decided

or got into a situation

that took their life

or caused them to die

It's that we believe our children

and protect them.

But when you look

objectively at the circumstances,

we know the mother could've had

a misrepresented view of her daughter.

That's for sure.

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available. Please try again later.

Jakub was my daughter's boyfriend with

whom she was in the Dominican Republic.

Why doesn't anyone want

to talk about Aneta?

Why have none of her friends come

despite us contacting them five times?

We contacted Aneta's father

and he met with us.

We told him about the film

and he didn't say a single word.

Why does nobody

from the police want to talk?

Nobody wants to speak about Aneta.

Only the mother.

We had a meeting arranged

with Aneta's ex-boyfriend, Jakub.

We talked on the phone an hour before,

and then he didn't show up.

Then he changed his phone number and

disappeared from the face of the Earth.

He disappeared from

the Trade and Commercial Registers.

We visited three addresses

he should live at.

Nobody anywhere.

I don't know why. Are they afraid?

Are they afraid of the police?

Are they afraid Aneta did k*ll herself

and they don't want to torment the mother?

Are they afraid someone k*lled her

and are therefore afraid of the mafia?

I don't know.

But the one thing I do know is

that nobody wants to come

and talk in front of the camera.

It's December 24, 2023.

Here in this green house

Ahmad just entered to exercise.

I met him here in a shop because he called

out from behind if I'm checking out

and I turned around

and looked him right in the face.

So now we're trying

to figure out what to do.

There he is. Ahmad!

Hello. Are you Ahmad?

-Why are you asking?

-I remember you from one case.

-Excuse me?

-We are filmmakers.

-Who are you?

-We are filmmakers.

-Filmmakers, making films.

-Yes.

Okay, so what?

We are filming this one case.

Do you think you'd have coffee with us?

-No.

-Only coffee. We sit, that's all.

Trust us.

This is the best thing that could happen.

We're filmmakers.

There's a film about Aneta Rodov.

It was probably clear to you when

we said we were filmmakers, right?

I've tried to clear this from my head.

It's haunted me what she did.

One girl took her life.

She died in front of my eyes.

Suicide right in front of me.

It haunts me when

I remember and think about it.

Then I went away.

This has haunted my children.

It's completely destroyed my life.

The police investigated this three times.

-Why do you think she died?

-I don't know.

I don't know.

-And you're not in contact with Kateina?

-No.

I've been away five years. In Lebanon for

My mother was sick and then COVID.

Then I came back.

I have kids here.

Whatever you will do or say, you'll make

it against me. I'm that foreigner!

If I were doing it against you and

I didn't have a single piece of evidence

How would I justify it?

-Okay.

-Just think about it.

I'd be real glad if we could talk.

Okay. I will think this through.

Is it possible to get a contact number?

Not right now, but if I will

contact you, you will have it.

-Thank you.

-I'll let you know.

What is there to say?

We couldn't do more than we did.

For me, I think that someone wanted this.

Let everyone think what they want.

That's probably all I can say.

The statute of limitations

is another ten years,

so I have ten years to do it myself.

The police aren't doing anything

and won't.

They investigated, so I have ten years.

Her life can't be returned.

I'd like to know the truth.

It would be easier for me.

The life can't be returned either way.

Nothing to do about that.

But I could live better.

In peace.

To look at the grave of your own child

is absolutely the worst thing ever.

I do always think about what happened,

nine years thinking up why it happened.

I love my daughter. My only daughter.

And to live with this is really hard.

Like f*cking hard.

AHMAD AND KATEINA WERE CONTACTED.

THEY DECIDED NOT TO TAKE PART IN THE FILM.

SUICIDE UNDER THE INFLUENCE

OF TOXIC PSYCHOSIS.

CURRENT INFORMATION ABOUT THE CASE

CAN BE FOUND ON THE WEBSITE

So let's open the case back up