Antonis Daglis | |
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Born | Antonis Daglis 1974 |
Died | 2 August 1997 Greece | (aged 22–23)
Other names | The Athens Ripper |
Criminal penalty | Life imprisonment plus 25 years |
Details | |
Victims | 3 murders 6 attempted murders |
Span of crimes | 1992–1995 |
Country | Greece |
State(s) | Attica |
Antonis Daglis ( Greek: Αντώνης Δαγλής; 1974 – 2 August 1997) was a Greek serial killer who was convicted of the murders of three women and attempted murder of six others in Athens on 23 January 1997. [1] Referred to as The Athens Ripper, [2] he was sentenced to thirteen terms of life imprisonment, plus 25 years. [3]
Daglis, a truck driver, [3] preyed upon Athens prostitutes between 1992 and 1995. He had been a repeat juvenile offender since the age of 14. [4] He had a prior record for a 1988 charge of seducing a minor, and in 1989 he was arrested for attacking a group of men at the Zappeion in Athens with a knife. [4]
Daglis was initially suspected of two murders after he was arrested for the rape and abduction of an English woman named Ann Hamson. [5] After his arrest, Daglis confessed to the rape, strangulation and dismemberment of two women and the attempted murder of a further six, and having robbed all eight women. [3] He later admitted to dismembering the bodies of two women, Eleni Panagiotopoulou, 29, and Athina Lazarou, 26, with a hacksaw and disposing of them around Athens. [4] Daglis subsequently confessed to the previously unsolved murder of a prostitute whose dismembered body was found in a dumpster in 1992. [6] [7]
During his trial, Daglis told the court, "I hated all prostitutes and continue to hate them. I went to meet them for sex but suddenly other pictures came into my head. I heard voices which ordered me to kill. Once I thought about strangling my fiancée, but I restrained myself." [4] He revealed that he hated prostitutes because his mother had been one. [8]
On 2 August 1997, Daglis was found hanging dead in his cell, along with his cellmate G. Makridis, in an apparent suicide pact. [9]