Killer Mladen Slogar Was a Peaceful and Honest Man

According to a former work colleague, Ivana Hodak’s killer never caused any incidents and nobody ever complained about him.

ZAGREB, CROATIA - Mladen Sčogar, also known as Zila, who was arrested for murdering Ivana Hodak, was fired in 1995 from the company SRC Jarun where he worked on the maintenance and letting out tennis fields. Following this lead, we went in search of who Mladen Slogar is. 

At the Mladost courts, we found his former colleague who has been working there for more than 30 years and remembers Slogar.

- Mladen Slogar was not a person to cause incidents, he was a peaceful and honest man. The guests of the tennis courts never had any complaints against him. This is as much as I know – the worker, who wanted to remain anonymous, told us.

Who knows what was going through his mind? 

He also told us that he did not know what happened to him since he lost his job.

- I don’t know anything about the problems he had, let alone what was going through his mind – Slogar’s former colleague said.

According to unofficial sources, after he got fired, Slogar’s life became very difficult.

Soon after he lost his job, Slogar nded up living in the streets and has been a vagrant in Zagreb for 15 years now.

Four months after Ivana Hodak’s murder, the police arrested Mladen Slogar, 51, on suspicion of her murder.

According to Zagreb police, the motive for the murder is him losing his job 15 years ago. He believed that attorney Zvonimir Hodak, Ivana’s father, was partially responsible for him being fired because at that the Hodak was representing the SRC Jarun company from which Slogar was fired.