The author deals with a robbery and brutal murder of the servant Ivanka Zakrajšck in Greto near Celje in the autumn ot
1938. A vicious and perfidious murderer Jurij Zabukošek was soon captured. In April 1939 he was taken to court, sentenced
to death penalty, and in September 1939 he was hanged in the yard of the goal. The murdered woman got acquainted
with the murderer through a marriage advertisement to which replied several other women (mostly servants) seeking
a marriage partner. This microhistorical analysis is a case study, which enlightens a broader phenomenon. Numerous
women tried to find a husband through newspaper advertisements and become independent housewives. Particularly
the servants, who had to work hard, often dreamed about the prince on a white horse, waited to meet a suitable husband,
and saved to bring more savings to the marriage. Women who were seeking a husband and had enough savings were also
attractive for criminals and some of them cheated and robbed or even murdered many unsuspicious women using various
criminal methods of seeking a bride.