Tibor Kruchió

Both men were eventually caught by police: Kocsis was the first arrested, while the fleeing Kruchió was caught hiding in a pub in Kiskundorozsma. On September 26, 2003, the Csongrád County Court sentenced him to life imprisonment without parole for the four murders. He submitted an appeal, but it was rejected by the Szeged Judgment Board. Shortly after the verdict, doctors who examined Kruchió determined that he was suffering an advanced form of cancer. While it initially appeared that it would be fatal, he was successfully rehabilitated following an operation. Kruchió continues to serve his sentence at the Csillag Prison in Szeged.

Kruchió's crimes intensified shortly after he met Lajos Kocsis, a hardened criminal who had been released from prison following a 10-year sentence barely two weeks prior, via his acquaintance József Dimovics. At that time, Kocsis, Dimovics and a third accomplice (who was never caught) had attempted to rob a gas station in Cegléd but were prevented from doing so, and while attempting to flee, the clerks had managed to recorded the license plate of Dimovics' car, which prevented him from returning home to Szeged. The pair then went to the Baktó suburb, where they met Kruchió and asked him to help find shelter. He managed to convince a couple he knew to let the men stay in their home, but since they were short on money, the trio began devising ways to get cash quickly. Dimovics suggested that they steal from 70-year-old Imréné D., a female acquaintance of his living in Szeged, and that the one who should undertake the robbery was Kruchió, since the police were not looking for him. And so, on September 3, 2001, he was sent to the woman's apartment on Kisteleki Ede Street in the Rókus suburb, where he introduced himself to the woman's son and was allowed into the apartment after ringing the doorbell. He then knocked the woman out and strangled her with a bathrobe belt. He then stole money, jewelry, drinks and clothes from the apartment, all of which amounted to 200,000 forints. Imréné D.'s body was found four days later by her son.

Tibor Kruchió (born 1967) is a Hungarian serial killer who robbed and killed four people from September to October 2001. Due to the ruthlessness of his crimes, he was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.

Tibor Kruchió was born into an impoverished family in Békés in 1967. After the fall of socialism in the country, he became homeless, finding refuge in abandoned houses in Szeged and homeless shelters on Indóház Square. Prior to his murder spree, he committed small-time crimes such as stealing and fraud. By that time, Kruchió had no family connections left, often interacted with other vagrants, and had no permanent residence or job.