Antonis Daglis

Antonis Daglis
Born 1974
Other names The Athens Ripper
Criminal penalty life imprisonment plus 25 years
Killings
Victims 3 (murder), 6 (attempted murder)
Span of killings
 1992–1995
Country Greece

Antonis Daglis (Greek: Αντώνης Δαγλής; born 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 for 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]

Antonis Daglis committed suicide on 2 August 1997.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Amanda Howard and Martin Smith, River of Blood: Serial Killers And Their Victims. Universal Publishers, 2004. ISBN 1-58112-518-6
  2. ↑ Mail&Guardian online
  3. 1 2 3 Athens News Agency: News in English, 01-23-07
  4. 1 2 3 4 A.N.A. Bulletin, 1-26-96
  5. ↑ Amanda Howard and Martin Smith, River of Blood: Serial Killers And Their Victims, page 108, Universal Publishers, 2004. ISBN 1-58112-518-6
  6. ↑ Berlin Zeitung, 1-30-96
  7. ↑ Athens News Agency, 1-26-96


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