- Lucian Staniak - The Red Spider From July 1964 to January 1967 a mysterious murderer known as the Red Spider killed 6 or more girls in and around Poland. He would send anonymous letters to newspaper editors in a poetic style warning that he was going to murder. The letters were written in a spidery red handwriting from which he earnt his name the Red Spider. The Red Spider would attack his young ...www.fortunecity.com/roswell/streiber/273/staniak_mo.htm