Roommate Patryk B. held in custody over Karolina Wróbel's disappearance

Karolina Wróbel, a 24-year-old mother, disappeared in early January 2025 from Czechowice-Dziedzice, a town in southern Poland's Silesia region. Her family reported her missing, and the search quickly drew national attention.

In January 2025 investigators detained Patryk B., a man who lived in the same household as her brother. He became the only suspect in the case. Reports at the time said he first gave police an account in which he admitted involvement and pointed to a nearby pond, then changed his version of events and retracted the confession. Prosecutors treated the case as a suspected killing even though no body had been found.

A court ordered pretrial detention, and he spent several months in custody. In autumn 2025 the detention was lifted and replaced with other preventive measures, but he remained a suspect. The case showed how difficult it is to build a prosecution without a body or conclusive physical evidence, and the search for Wróbel continued, including the draining of a pond and the use of cadaver dogs.