Antonis Daglis
{{short description|Greek serial killer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2024}}
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| name= Antonis Daglis
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| birthname= Antonis Daglis
| alias= The Athens Ripper
| birth_date= 1974
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| death_date={{Death date and age|1997|08|02|1974|df=y}}
| death_place = Greece
| penalty= Life imprisonment plus 25 years
| victims= 3 murders
6 attempted murders
| beginyear= 1992
| endyear= 1995
| country= Greece
| states= Attica
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Antonis Daglis ({{langx|el|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.Amanda Howard and Martin Smith, River of Blood: Serial Killers And Their Victims. Universal Publishers, 2004. {{ISBN|1-58112-518-6}} Referred to as The Athens Ripper,{{cite web|url=https://mg.co.za/search/Search2007.aspx?keywords=andonis+daglis|title=Search Results - Mail & Guardian|website=mg.co.za|access-date=15 February 2019}} he was sentenced to thirteen terms of life imprisonment, plus 25 years.{{cite web|url=http://www.hri.org/cgi-bin/brief?/news/greek/apeen/1997/97-01-23_1.apeen.html|title=Athens News Agency: News in English, 97-01-23|website=www.hri.org|access-date=15 February 2019}}
Crimes
Daglis, a truck driver, preyed upon Athens prostitutes between 1992 and 1995. He had been a repeat juvenile offender since the age of 14.{{cite web|url=http://www.hri.org/cgi-bin/brief?/news/greek/ana/1996/96-01-26.ana.html|title=A.N.A. Bulletin, 26/01/96|website=www.hri.org|access-date=15 February 2019}} 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 of two murders after he was arrested for the rape and abduction of an English woman named Ann Hamson.Amanda Howard and Martin Smith, River of Blood: Serial Killers And Their Victims, page 108, Universal Publishers, 2004. {{ISBN|1-58112-518-6}} 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. 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.berlinonline.de/|title=BerlinOnline - Abschied|website=www.berlinonline.de|access-date=15 February 2019}}{{cite web|url=http://www.hri.org/news/greek/ana/1996/96-01-26.ana.html|title=A.N.A. Bulletin, 26/01/96|website=www.hri.org|access-date=15 February 2019}}
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." He revealed that he hated prostitutes because his mother had been one.{{cite web |url=https://www.iefimerida.gr/news/473800/o-ellinas-tzak-anterovgaltis-poios-itan-o-antonis-dagklis-poy-katakreoyrgoyse-ierodoyles |title=Ο Έλληνας Τζακ Αντεροβγάλτης - Ποιός ήταν ο Αντώνης Δαγκλής που κατακρεουργούσε ιερόδουλες|language=Greek|trans-title=The Greek Jack the Ripper - Who was Antonis Daglis who was massacring prostitutes|publisher=I Efimerida |date=14 August 2019 |website= |access-date=14 August 2019}}
On 2 August 1997, Daglis was found hanging dead in his cell, along with his cellmate G. Makridis, in an apparent suicide pact.{{cite web |url=https://www.ethnos.gr/ellada/34869_ellines-serial-killers-ta-sexoyalika-egklimata-poy-sokaran-panellinio|title=Έλληνες Serial Killers: Τα σεξουαλικά εγκλήματα πού σόκαραν το πανελλήνιο|language=Greek|trans-title=Greek Serial Killers: The sex crimes that shocked the whole of Greece|publisher=Ethnos |date=23 April 2019 |website= |access-date=14 August 2019}}
See also
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Category:1997 murders in Greece
Category:Greek people convicted of murder
Category:Greek prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment
Category:People convicted of murder by Greece
Category:Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Greece
Category:Serial killers who died by suicide in prison custody