Nemanja Grcic (37) was killed five years ago in Vrdnik, and his wife Danijela Đilasović assisted in the crime. It turned out later that Grcic’s killer was in an emotional relationship with his wife Daniela, and this love triangle that ended tragically was broken when the police decided to question Daniela. Her behavior deviated from what was expected, especially considering the circumstances of the crime, and it was an alarm for the police to direct part of the investigation towards her.
A crime equal to a Hollywood thriller took place in 2019 in a log cabin in Vrdnik that Nemanja Grcic and his wife Danijela Đilasović rented in order to spend a few days there. Đilasovića called the police and reported that an unknown man broke into the log cabin and shot her husband. As she said, the killer pushed her away and knocked her to the floor. Bearing in mind that the murdered Grcic was linked to a criminal clan from Vojvodina, and that he was previously convicted for drugs and vehicle theft, everything at first looked like a mafia liquidation.
However, the police decided to interview Đilasović the very next day. Bearing in mind that Daniela could not precisely describe the attacker, nor what exactly happened, but that she only said that he had a cap on his head and that he was not masked, she had already aroused suspicion among the policemen.
“However, her story was dubious, and she failed to give the police the impression of a grieving woman, whose husband was killed in front of her eyes. “They immediately focused the investigation on her and found out why she could not actually describe the killer,” a source told Kurir earlier.
Then the love triangle began to unfold slowly, and the truth about the crime came to light. It turned out that Zoran Dimić from Subotica was in an emotional relationship with Danijela Đilasović and that this was the motive for this terrible crime, not Grcic’s connection with crime.
“It’s my fault that my father-in-law and mother-in-law don’t love me,” Danijela Đilasović said in her closing speech at the trial.
The father of the murdered Grcic, in numerous statements to the Belgrade media, claimed that his son was killed neither by fault nor duty, and that Grcic himself suspected that Danijela was preparing something for him.
“There was no reason for my Nemanja to be killed and that will be proven in court.” In the last telephone conversation between him and his sister-in-law Danijela, they spoke in a completely calm tone, without tension or shouting. Why she lured him, so that they would kill him there, only she knows,” Jovan Grcic, the victim’s father, said earlier, and then mentioned their last phone conversation.
“In that phone conversation, he tells her “because you want to set something up for me”. He was suspicious of her excessive kindness and mercy, because he did not know her as such. And then Nemanja suddenly decided to come from abroad just to see the children. Two days before the murder, Daniela told him that she had an important business meeting in Vrdnik, and during that time he could be at the pool. And there, obviously, everything that was planned was realized. Zoran first shot him in the chest, and when Nemanja fell over the stool, he shot him in the back of the head,” said the desperate father, not hiding that everything was over between his son and daughter-in-law, and that Nemanja only objected to Danijela she brings other men into the house because of the children.
On the other hand, Daniela has always claimed that she was unjustly detained.
Zoran Dimić and Danijela Đilasović were sentenced in the first instance before the High Court in Sremska Mitrovica to 20 and eight years in prison, respectively.
Bonus video: The house where the fratricide took place in Čačak
