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One would think that the time for so-called criminal programs has already passed on television. For the last time, perhaps, in the 2000s, these programs were very popular, bringing to life old or recent crimes. In the case of a more demanding edition, it can bring new points of view, elements that until then were not known to the public, but that in the end continue to tell a memorable and well-known story.
However, on RTL Klub they think otherwise, a new self-produced crime reporting magazine called Sinful Souls will be launched on April 30.
The program appears weekly and deals with crimes that, according to the creators, “do not allow Hungarian society to calm down.”
Without changing anything in the structure of this type of program, here too, the families of the victims, eyewitnesses, investigators and, in some cases, the authors themselves make statements between original recordings and reconstructed scenes performed by actors. (The latter seems to never run out of televisions, even if it’s time.)
The first broadcast immediately addresses one of the most horrific crimes of the past decade, the brutal 2012 murder of 11-year-old Bence Szita. In fact, this murder has deeply shaken Hungarian society, as has the fact that anyone who has heard of it can never again erase it from their memory, no matter how much they want. That’s why from the first minute of the show, the viewer wonders why they have to say this again now.
Bence Szita’s death is not what we have forgotten, but what comes to mind over and over again, and we always face the same confusion and horror.
In the end, only at the end of the hourlong broadcast, and there too, very cautiously, the question arises as to why it might have been worth recovering the case.
Bence Szita went missing during the fall break eight years ago, and it quickly became clear during the investigation that he had probably been killed. Later it was revealed that the couple of his adoptive father, Erika Polcz, had hired two acquaintances and ended the child three by three, with brutal cruelty. All because the woman felt that the child was on the way to living with his adoptive father. The details of the murder were so shocking that the death penalty controversy flared up again, and the three perpetrators were eventually sentenced to life in prison. In the years since the sentencing, all three have died of cancer in prison.
They were already ill when they spoke to Sinful Souls staff, as everyone on the show except Erika Polcz spoke. Also speaking are Bence Szita’s mother, adoptive father, grandmother, investigator of the case, and József Bogdán and József Kertész, who killed the little boy with Erika Polcz. The last time you spoke on this show, but why? They doubled exactly the same as in his previous speeches and in court. They both anoint the murder of the woman and each other, establishing their own roles as little as possible and the others as dominant. (The only difference is that Kertész showed remorse and apologized, while Bogdán did not. Anyone with a child.
But there is another question that perhaps could have been explained. Erika Polcz did not secretly plan the murder, repeatedly telling her relatives that she wanted to poison Bence Szita. One of them even picked it up when he talked about it, this audio recording also appeared in the case hearing.
Polcz did not hide his plan so much that he even showed the drug with which he had poisoned the boy before his death, causing him serious torment even at that time.
But no one made an announcement, no one felt that if someone talked about poisoning or killing a child, they planned to do it, maybe something should be done. “How many more are responsible for Bence Szita’s death?” they ask at the end of Sinful Souls, but the question remains unanswered, hanging in the air with us.
However, this is not the biggest problem with the program, but the form. There are two presenters (Viktor Bányai, crime correspondent at RTL, and Petra Gál, editor-reporter at Fókusz) who conduct the interviews in the original locations. But in this case, the original site is the site of the brutal death of a young child, where you simply don’t like to talk about the child who is buried here alive and who will soon report in great detail what happened to you on the last day. Even if, afterwards, fortunately, the report is still relatively subdued, unlike uppercase. And it’s not in good taste to talk while standing at Bence Szita’s grave, even if relevant questions are finally asked here.
What remains with us after Sinful Souls is exactly the same misunderstanding and disgust that remains after reading the accounts after the murder came to light, or after the trial. We have received no further responses at this time, perhaps more troubling questions.
(Cover image: S Zita Bence’s portrait from the Sinful Souls preview video – source: RTL Klub)
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