24-year-old murder solved: Identity of little Hungarian boy Tamás Till’s killer revealed
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The police have finally solved the 24-year-old mystery surrounding the murder of Tamás Till, revealing that the killer was 16 years old at the time of the crime, announced Gyula Bogdány, Deputy Head of the Criminal Division at the Bács-Kiskun County Police Headquarters. Till, who disappeared 24 years ago, at the age of 11, was found dead this past summer, buried in cement on a farm in Baja. Experts discovered fractures in the ribs, skull, and spine of the skeletal remains.
Since the summer, the police have questioned over 40 people as witnesses and worked with numerous experts. The breakthrough came when János F., a former suspect, confessed to the crime. János F. came under suspicion after it was revealed that he had coerced several witnesses into giving false testimony, 444.hu reported.
Tamás Till’s murderer confessed
The police re-interrogated János F. for the fourth time on 28 November, and he finally admitted to killing Tamás Till and provided a detailed confession. According to his account, on the day of the murder, he met Tamás Till, a boy he didn’t know, on a nearby industrial road, and invited him to the farm under the pretence of needing help.
Once there, János F. attacked the unsuspecting boy without any apparent reason and killed him with a cramp iron.
He later hid the body in a storage building, covered it with a tarp, and buried it, knowing that the area would soon be paved over by József V., the farm’s owner. He discarded the boy’s bike in the overgrown back part of the property, where it was found by a neighbour in July and later confirmed by the police in September.
When József V. returned to the farm, he reprimanded János F. for not progressing with the work, but he never discovered the murder.
On the following Sunday, József V. and another colleague poured cement over the floor, unaware of what lay beneath.