Antonis Daglis

Antonis Daglis (Greek: Αντώνης Δαγλής, b. 1974) is a Greek serial killer who was convicted for the murders of three women and attempted murder of six others in Athens on January 23, 1997. [Amanda Howard and Martin Smith, "River of Blood: Serial Killers And Their Victims". Universal Publishers, 2004. ISBN 1-581-12518-6] Referred to as the "Athens Ripper", [ [http://www.mg.co.za/search/Search2007.aspx?keywords=andonis%20daglis Mail&Guardian online] ] he was sentenced to thirteen terms of life imprisonment, plus 25 years. [ [http://www.hri.org/cgi-bin/brief?/news/greek/apeen/1997/97-01-23_1.apeen.html "Athens News Agency: News in English", 01-23-07] ]

Daglis, a truck driver [ [http://www.hri.org/cgi-bin/brief?/news/greek/apeen/1997/97-01-23_1.apeen.html "Athens News Agency: News in English", 01-23-07] ] preyed upon Athens prostitutes between 1992 and 1995. He had been a repeat juvenile offender since the age of 14. [ [http://www.hri.org/cgi-bin/brief?/news/greek/ana/1996/96-01-26.ana.html A.N.A. Bulletin, 1-26-96] ] 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. [ [http://www.hri.org/cgi-bin/brief?/news/greek/ana/1996/96-01-26.ana.html A.N.A. Bulletin, 1-26-96] ]

Daglis was initially suspected for two murders after he was arrested for the rape and abduction of an Englishwoman named Ann Hamson. [Amanda Howard and Martin Smith, "River of Blood: Serial Killers And Their Victims", page 108, Universal Publishers, 2004. ISBN 1-581-12518-6] 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. [ [http://www.hri.org/cgi-bin/brief?/news/greek/apeen/1997/97-01-23_1.apeen.html "Athens News Agency: News in English", 01-23-07] ] 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. [ [http://www.hri.org/cgi-bin/brief?/news/greek/ana/1996/96-01-26.ana.html A.N.A. Bulletin, 1-26-96] ] Daglis subsequently confessed to the previously unsolved murder of a prostitute whose dismembered body was found in a dumpster in 1992. [ [http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/1996/0130/nachrichten/0070/index.html "Berlin Zeitung", 1-30-96] ] [ [http://www.hri.org/news/greek/ana/1996/96-01-26.ana.html "Athens News Agency", 1-26-96] ]

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." [ [http://www.hri.org/cgi-bin/brief?/news/greek/ana/1996/96-01-26.ana.html A.N.A. Bulletin, 1-26-96] ]

References

Further reading

* Amanda Howard and Martin Smith, "River of Blood: Serial Killers And Their Victims". Universal Publishers, 2004. ISBN 1-581-12518-6