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Antonis Daglis
(Greek: Αντώνης Δαγλής, born
1974) is a Greek serial killer who was convicted of the murders of three
women and attempted murder of six others in Athens on
January 23, 1997.
Referred to as the "Athens Ripper",he was
sentenced to thirteen terms of life imprisonment, plus 25 years.
Daglis, a truck driver, preyed upon Athens
prostitutes between 1992 and 1995. He had been a repeat juvenile
offender since the age of 14. 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.
Daglis was initially suspected for two murders after
he was arrested for the rape and abduction of an English woman named Ann
Hamson. 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.
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. Daglis subsequently confessed to
the previously unsolved murder of a prostitute whose dismembered body
was found in a dumpster in 1992.
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."
Truck driver gets 13 life sentences
for murders
Athens News Agency
January 23, 1997
A 23-year-old truck driver was today sentenced to 13
terms of life imprisonment, plus 25 years, after an Athens court found
him guilty of murdering three prostitutes, attempting to murder a
further six and robbing all nine.
Antonis Daglis committed the murders between 1993 and
1995.
In particularly gruesome testimony, the court heard
how he had used a saw to dismember his victims before disposing of their
body parts in rubbish bins.
Daglis was also found guilty of raping an English
prostitute working in Greece and the illegal use of a weapon -- a piece
of rope which he used to strangle his victims.
Before announcing its verdict, which Daglis listened
to impassively, the accused had prohibited a court-appointed defence
lawyer from making his closing address, saying he did not consider him
to be his defence counsel.
Daglis earlier this week surprised the court by
admitting to all three murders but today retracted his confession,
saying he had killed only one, by accident.
''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 fiancee, but I restrained myself,'' Daglis had told the
court on Tuesday.
Police charge 21-year-old with murder of two prostitutes
Athens News Agency
January 26, 1996
Police revealed yesterday that a 21-year-old Athens
man had confessed to the strangulation of two prostitutes and the
attempted murder of another eight.
Antonis Daglis was charged with the murder and
mutilation of Eleni Panagiotopoulou, 29, and Athina Lazarou, 26.
Daglis told police he picked up Panagiotopoulou last
October 28 from downtown Solonos street, near the Kolonaki district in
Athens. They subsequently drove to a parking lot, where he said he
strangled the prostitute with his hands as they had sex.
Daglis said he later dismembered the body with a
hacksaw and collected the body parts into several plastic bags, which he
dumped near a camping site on the Athens-Lamia national highway.
The victim's remains were identified a few days later
by relatives.
Daglis said he strangled his second victim, Lazarou,
with a rope because she mocked him during their love-making session. Her
half-naked body was discovered on Christmas Day last year in a deserted
area near Kifissos Avenue, in western Athens.
Authorities have identified the other eight women
Daglis reportedly attempted to kill.
According to police files, Daglis was arrested in
1988 for seducing a minor, while in 1989 he was arrested for attacking a
group of men in Zappeion with a knife. Authorities are also
investigating whether Daglis is behind the murder of another young woman,
whose dismembered body was found in a garbage bucket outside the War
Museum in October 1992.
Daglis has been in and out of the criminal courts
since he was 14.
Andonis Daglis
Twenty-three year old Andonis Daglis was
caught after he let Englishwoman Ann Hamson escape. Ann was abducted by
the Greek man who had mistaken her for a prostitute. However the woman was
able to convince Daglis that she in fact was not a prostitute and was
spared.
Ann Hamson told police of her abduction and
Daglis was quickly arrested for the abduction and the suspicion of three
other rape/murders and six attempted murders between 1993 and 1996.
In an Athens court on January 23, 1997
Daglis was found guilty of three sex murders as well as the attempted
murder of six other women. In court Daglis was on the stand for weeks
discussing how he had abducted three prostitutes, repeatedly raped them
before cutting them up with a chainsaw in his house. The bodies were then
discarded along the highway.
