Antonis Daglis

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]

Antonis Daglis
Born
Antonis Daglis

1974
Died2 August 1997(1997-08-02) (aged 22–23)
Greece
Cause of deathSuicide
Other namesThe Athens Ripper
Criminal penaltylife imprisonment plus 25 years
Details
Victims3 (murder), 6 (attempted murder)
Span of crimes
1992–1995
CountryGreece

Crimes

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] He revealed that he hated prostitutes because his mother had been one.[8]

On 2 August 1997, Daglis was found hung dead in his cell, along with his cell mate G. Makridis, in an apparent suicide pact.[9]

References
  1. Amanda Howard and Martin Smith, River of Blood: Serial Killers And Their Victims. Universal Publishers, 2004. ISBN 1-58112-518-6
  2. "Search Results - Mail & Guardian". mg.co.za. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
  3. "Athens News Agency: News in English, 97-01-23". www.hri.org. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
  4. "A.N.A. Bulletin, 26/01/96". www.hri.org. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
  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. "BerlinOnline - Abschied". www.berlinonline.de. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
  7. "A.N.A. Bulletin, 26/01/96". www.hri.org. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
  8. "Ο Έλληνας Τζακ Αντεροβγάλτης - Ποιός ήταν ο Αντώνης Δαγκλής που κατακρεουργούσε ιερόδουλες" [The Greek Jack the Ripper - Who was Antonis Daglis who was massacring prostitutes] (in Greek). I Efimerida. 14 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  9. "Έλληνες Serial Killers: Τα σεξουαλικά εγκλήματα πού σόκαραν το πανελλήνιο" [Greek Serial Killers: The sex crimes that shocked the whole of Greece] (in Greek). Ethnos. 23 April 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
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