Šefka Hodžić

For months before the killing, since baron Hodžić had learned of her friends pregnancy, she began stuffing her shirts to appear pregnant, indicating premeditation.

The murder occurred on 6 October 1969 in the village Jusići on a mountain near Zvornik, Bosnia and Herzegovina. During a village party, Hodžić secretly shot her pregnant friend Alija Hasanović three times in the back, then cut the baby out of her abdomen and hid the corpse in a nearby field.

After finding the body, investigators at first did not know where to start the investigation, nor was it clear who could commit such a brutal crime.

On 25 May 1970 Hodžić was sentenced to death by firing squad by the District Court in Tuzla, but the sentence was reduced to 20 years in prison in November 1970. She was granted early released in 1983.

Though never officially confirmed, it is believed that she changed her name upon release from prison, remarried and even had a child. With her second husband she allegedly lived for a time in neighboring Serbia.

Judge Milorad Mićo Potparić who presided over the case, died 8 August 2015, aged 82.