Tadeusz Ensztajn was born in 1913 and grew up without a family. He was placed in an orphanage in Łódź, where he completed three grades of schooling before he ran away. After that he drifted across Poland, selling songbooks and living on petty theft. Twice he was punished with arrest for riding trains without a ticket. No psychiatric finding about him is on record.
Between February and July 1933 a series of attacks on young women unsettled Łowicz, a town in central Poland, and the surrounding villages. Police later linked seven murders to the man they arrested, six of them in Łowicz and one in Włocławek.
Władysława Brzozowska, 24, of Łowicz, died on February 10, 1933. Bronisława Kucharkowa, 25, of Popów, died on May 30, 1933. The name of the third victim in the murders for which he was convicted is not on record.
The case stayed unsolved for months.
He was arrested in Włocławek in July 1933. During questioning he confessed to all seven murders.
His trial opened before the District Court (Sąd Okręgowy) in Włocławek on August 21, 1934. He withdrew his confession in court, said he had lied under questioning and denied any part in the crimes; he named another man as responsible. The court heard 36 witnesses.
After a two-day hearing the court found him guilty of three murders; the other charges were not proven. On August 23, 1934 he was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment and 10 years' loss of public rights. The court counted his moral neglect (zaniedbanie moralne) as a mitigating circumstance.
What became of Ensztajn after the sentence is not on record. His year of death is not on record.
He was charged with seven murders and convicted of three; the other four were not proven. He confessed to seven after his arrest and withdrew the confession at trial. Higher totals of ten victims do not match the charges or the verdict.
1913: Tadeusz Ensztajn is born.
February 10, 1933: Władysława Brzozowska, 24, dies in Łowicz.
May 30, 1933: Bronisława Kucharkowa, 25, of Popów, dies.
July 1933: arrested in Włocławek; confesses to seven murders.
August 21, 1934: trial opens at the District Court in Włocławek; he withdraws his confession.
August 23, 1934: found guilty of three murders; sentenced to 15 years and 10 years' loss of public rights.
After 1934: his fate is not on record.