A breakthrough after many years in the rape case in Piła. The X-Files identified the perpetrator through DNA

The crime occurred in 2009 in the center of Piła. The young woman was attacked and raped by a then unknown perpetrator. Investigators secured at the scene, among others: biological traces, but for years the identity of the attacker could not be established. The proceedings were therefore discontinued.

Years later, officers from the Poznań X-Files returned to the case. Specialists from the Forensic Laboratory of the Provincial Police Headquarters in Poznań, using newer methods, obtained a full DNA profile of the man left at the scene of the incident.

According to the spokesman of the Wielkopolska Police, Junior Insp. Andrzej Borowiak, for three years the police gradually narrowed down the group of people who might be involved in the crime. Ultimately, their findings took them to a prison where 47-year-old Arkadiusz W. was serving a sentence for robbery.

The genetic material collected from him was compared with traces obtained years ago. The tests confirmed the DNA match. The man was charged with rape and admitted to committing the act.

According to the police, the 47-year-old had been convicted many times before, including: for threats, beatings, thefts, robberies and frauds.