| Antonis Daglis | |
| Birthname: | Antonis Daglis |
| Alias: | The Athens Ripper |
| Birth Date: | 1974 |
| Death Place: | Greece |
| Penalty: | Life imprisonment plus 25 years |
| Victims: | 3 murders 6 attempted murders |
| Beginyear: | 1992 |
| Endyear: | 1995 |
| Country: | Greece |
| States: | Attica |
Antonis Daglis (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Αντώνης Δαγλής; 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 of 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 hanging dead in his cell, along with his cellmate G. Makridis, in an apparent suicide pact.[9]