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Two Arrested for the Murder of Greek Journalist Giorgos Karaivaz
Two persons were arrested in Athens on Friday in relation to the 2021 murder of Greek journalist Giorgos Karaivaz.
Crime
Mother Arrested in Greece After Her Baby Was Found Dead in Dam
A mother has been arrested in northern Greece after her baby daughter, just eleven months old, was found dead in an irrigation dam, police said on Monday.
The 29-year-old suspect, whose name wasn't provided by authorities, is due to appear...
Crime
Man Kills Wife and Baby in Yet Another Femicide in Greece
Yet another man committed femicide, killing his partner and their 10-month-old daughter with a hunting rifle in the village of Lekani near Kavala in northern Greece on Friday.
The 56-year-old man took both victims to a cattle pen he owned...
Crime
Greek Court Rejects Tougher Sentences for Henderson’s Killers
On Friday, a Greek court rejected an appeal to toughen the sentences originally imposed on six people charged with the killing of Bakari Henderson, a college graduate from Texas, in Zakynthos in July 2017.
The court upheld the original convictions,...
Crime
Caroline Crouch’s Husband Sentenced to Life for Her Murder
The husband of Caroline Crouch was sentenced to life in jail on Monday for her premeditated murder by a court in Athens.
Following a six-day trial, a panel of three full-time judges and four jurors found that Babis Anagnostopoulos, 34, suffocated...
Greek News
Caroline Crouch Killer Begs for Forgiveness, Has “No Excuses”
Babis Anagnostopoulos, the Greek helicopter pilot who killed his British wife Caroline Crouch last March, testified in court on Wednesday that he had "no excuses" for killing the young mother.
Anagnostopoulos, 33, even begged for forgiveness for killing his wife,...
Crime
The Damning Evidence Against a Mother Charged with her Child’s Murder
Damning evidence against Greek mother Roula Pispirigkou, whose three children all died under suspicious medical circumstances over the last three years, emerged on Thursday.
The police report charging Pispirigkou with the murder of her eldest daughter Georgina in 2022 includes...
Crime
Mother of Three Dead Children in Greece Detained
Roula Pispirigkou was detained on Wednesday for the homicide of her first daughter. The Greek mother from the city of Patra came under suspicion after all three of her children died within three years.
Pispirigkou, 33, was detained by police...
Crime
29-Year-Old Greek-American Mother Murdered in New York
New York police are investigating after 29-year-old Greek-American Irene Spantopanagos, who was stabbed to death in an apparent murder-suicide attempt on Saturday.
Authorities say officers from the Nassau County Police Department's were called to a home on North Manhattan Avenue...
Crime
Greek Man Confesses to Murder of Family of Four in Andravida
A 60-year-old man on Friday confessed to the murder of a couple and their two children in the town of Andravida, Peloponnese