Kazys Jonaitis

Since his incarceration, Jonaitis has repeatedly claimed to be a reformed man and has applied for parole on multiple occasions for reasons such as old age and his alleged reform. So far, all of his applications have been denied by the Court of Appeal, whose board members have expressed skepticism about his claims, coupled with concerns that he might still pose a danger to those around him. This was exemplified by an incident dating back to 2008, when Jonaitis attempted to gouge out a prison guard's eyes out after they got into an argument about using the prison's phone.

In 2003, he was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to life imprisonment. His wife, who was accused of wearing the victims' jewellery despite supposedly knowing that they were stolen was convicted of stealing property and sentenced to three years imprisonment. She later applied for amnesty, which was granted shortly afterwards.

On April 21, 2001, the decapitated body of 25-year-old Eglė Venskutonytė, a store clerk from Vievis, was discovered tied to a tree and covered with branches in a forest near Elektrėnai. Her identity was confirmed by her mother, who recognized her clothing, shoes and hair. For some time, her parents were considered the prime suspects in her case, but were later ruled out.

In June 2001, after it was determined that a cellphone had been stolen from one of the victims, investigators contacted the mobile operator to check if any calls had been made from it. To their relief, the operator said that a call had been made on a road between Vilnius and Grigiškės, and that the SIM card belonged to a young man who lived in Grigiškės. The man, who turned out to be Jonaitis' stepson, was quickly ruled out as he did not fit the profile, but this lead to increased interest in his stepfather.

Jonaitis did not complete his education and dropped out to work as a driver. As an adult, he married and divorced twice, and had two children with his wives. Sometime during the 1970s, Jonaitis was jailed twice for theft, for which he served short prison sentences. In 1984, an acquaintance of his paid him 8,000 rubles to kill his wife's lover, Algimantas P., which Jonaitis accepted. After killing the man, he burned the body in a forest, which was locked in the trunk of his car. Jonaitis was eventually arrested, convicted and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, but was released after serving 12 years of the sentence following a recommendation by the Presidential Pardon Commission.

Kazys Jonaitis (born 1943), known as The Roadside Maniac (Lithuanian: Pakelių maniakas), is a Lithuanian serial killer and rapist who was convicted of killing at least three women in 2001, a few years after being released from a prior murder conviction. For his latter crimes, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Kazys Jonaitis was born in 1943 in the small village of Algupys, the eldest of seven children. According to accounts provided by family members later on, he and his brothers were brutally beaten by his father with halters and saddles, out of an inexplicable hatred towards his male offspring.