Dr. Geza de Kaplany

Dr. Geza de Kaplany

Dr. Geza de Kaplany (1926- ), left foreground wearing sun glasses filing past jury,
at his 1963 murder trial.

January 21, 1963 - The defendant Dr. Geza De Kaplany sits in the Santa Clara
County Superior courtroom on trial for the murder of his wife Hanja Kaplany.
The jury debates the verdict on his plea of insanity.

Dr. Geza de Kaplany (1926- ), center, wearing dark glasses, at his murder trial for killing Hajna
de Kaplany, former beauty contestant and dancer, his wife of one month, whom he tortured
and murdered by making countless cuts in her body and pouring sulfuric and nitric acid into
the open wounds until she died, in 1962 in San Jose, California; he was sent to prison for
life; he was released by the California parole board in a controversial decision that allowed
this savage killer to be released so that he could become a missionary physician at a clinic
in Taiwan; he violated his parole by saying that California no longer had jurisdiction over
him once he was in Taiwan and moved to Germany, where he worked as physician in a
hospital until his murder was exposed and he was fired; he became a German citizen
so that he could not be extradited to the U.S., for prosecution of his parole violation.

Dr. Geza de Kaplany

On display in court are the sulfuric and nitric acids used to torture Hajna de Kaplany, former beauty
contestant and dancer, on August 28, 1962 (she died of her wounds on September 30, 1962)
by her husband, Dr. Geza de Kaplany (1926- ) in San Jose, California.