ZAJEČAR, SERBIA – DECEMBER, 2014 Dragana Ćirić, an eighteen-year-old student from the Economics School, was murdered in December 2014 in Zaječar. The perpetrator was Čedomir Đurić, a seventy-year-old man who was pathologically in love with Dragana and couldn’t accept that she had a boyfriend.
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- Dragana Ćirić 1
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- Dragana Ćirić 2
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- Dragana Ćirić & her boyfriend
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- Her boyfriend
On the day of her disappearance, she was recorded getting into his car. He then brutally beat her, strangled her, and poured acid into her mouth while she was still alive, before taking her body to a lake near the village of Glogovac to try and hide it. The police arrested him two days after her disappearance was reported, and he confessed to the crime. In 2015, he was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
Čedomir Đurić
Three years after his imprisonment, he sent a letter from prison to Dragana’s parents, claiming he often sees her in his dreams and blaming her parents for her death. This letter caused the victim’s family further pain and shock.
