Agnieszka Kotlarska

Agnieszka Kotlarska (August 15, 1972 – August 27, 1996) was the first Polish winner of the Miss International beauty pageant in 1991.

Life after Miss International

She went on to pursue a modeling career in New York for the likes of Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein, before returning to Poland to settle in Wrocław.

Death

Agnieszka was stabbed to death by a stalker on August 27, 1996. The attack also injured her husband, Jarosław Świątek.

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 Jerzy L. has confessed to killing former 1991 Miss Poland and Miss International, 
 Agnieszka Kotlarska, after stalking her for more than five years.

 On Aug. 27, 1996, police allege, he approached Kotlarska as she was getting into
 a car with her husband, Jaroslaw Swiatek, and daughter.
 Swiatek jumped out of the car, the men began to scuffle, and Jerzy L. produced
 a hunting knife from his knapsack. Kotlarska jumped out of the car when she
 saw Jerzy L. stab her husband's leg. Jerzy L. has confessed that he then stabbed
 her four times in the chest. Kotlarska died in the hospital.

 After the stabbing, police officers found Jerzy L. in his home. He immediately
 confessed to killing Kotlarska, saying he was mad with jealousy that the girl
 of his dreams had married someone else and had "ruined his life."
 He also told police he always carried the hunting knife and never intended
 to use it to commit a crime. He faces a sentence ranging from eight years
 in prison to the death penalty.

 Jerzy L. first saw Kotlarska in 1990, when she was modelling.
 He tried to get a date with her, but she refused. Jerzy L. was persistent:
 He got her address and phone number and continued pursuing her.

 After she won the Miss Poland title in 1991 and married,
 Kotlarska left for the United  States and a career as a fashion model.
 She modelled for designers including Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein under
 the name "Aga."
 Her photographs appeared in Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Playboy.

 After three years in the United States, Kotlarska returned to Poland with
 her husband and daughter to live in a single-family house in the Wroclaw
 district of Maslice. She began appearing in television commercials, and
 had two film roles pending.
 Jerzy L. learned Kotlarska's new address and phone number after see her
 husband's name in one of many press interviews.    
 Allegedly, he started calling again, asking in vain for a meeting, and prowled
 around her house, hoping to catch a glimpse of her.

 Jerzy L. is 36 and a graduate of the Wroclaw University of Technology.
 He works as a computer programmer in a bank. He lives with his parents;
 his mother says that he was only interested in jogging and computers.

 Two months ago, Kotlarska barely escaped death by deciding at the last minute
 not to fly on TWA Flight 800, which crashed with no survivors off Long Island,
 New York. Kotlarska's photographer was among the victims. Curiosity the same
 flight was going to be taken by International Mexican Model, Elsa Benitez and
 judge of Miss Universe 2004, Elsa felt a premonition and someone inside her
 tells don’t take that flight, she left crying in Airport with any reason apparently,
 few hours later she would be aware on news about the tragic accident.

 Kotlarska is the third Polish beauty queen to die in tragic circumstances.
 In 1957, just after the finals of the Miss Polonia contest, the first runner-up,
 Krystyna Zyla, fell out of a window at Warsaw's Grand Hotel.

 In 1994, Magdalena Jaworska, 1984's Miss Polonia, was electrocuted in her
 own apartment, after dropping a hairdryer into the water while bathing.

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