Vinko Pintaric (April 3, 1941 - May 25, 1991) killed five people in the Hrvatsko Zagorje region of Croatia, then part of Yugoslavia, across a span of seventeen years. The first killing was of a neighbour in April 1973; he shot his wife the following year. He was sentenced to death on November 18, 1974, but the sentence was commuted to twenty years, at that time the longest prison term Yugoslav law allowed.
He escaped in September 1989 and remained at large in the hills of his home region for almost two years, during which three further neighbours were shot: Rudolf Belina, Barbara Sipek and Bozo Habek. He was killed in a shootout with police on May 25, 1991. Croatian reporting called him the Caruga of Zagorje, after a famous interwar outlaw.
The recorded toll is five. Sourcing for the case is almost entirely Croatian-language and largely posthumous, and the sequence of the later killings is reported inconsistently between accounts; the dates above should be read with that in mind.