The island of Cyprus have got its first (known) serial killer. A 35-year-old army captain has confessed to have killed five women and two girls: Army captain confesses to killing two girls and five women in Cyprus
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Published on Apr 26, 2019 An army officer in Cyprus is suspected in the serial murder of up to seven women he met on online dating sites.
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Missing women and daughters spark criticism of Cypriot authorities
"Greek Cypriot National Guard captain Nicos Metaxas (35), set to appear in court on Saturday, is charged with three murders and has confessed to another four, police say.
An investigation was launched on April 14th after a German photographer who often walked in the area of Mitsero village near Nicosia discovered the decomposed, naked and bound body of Mary Rose Tiburcio (39), which had been brought to the surface of an abandoned mine shaft by heavy rain.
She and her eight-year-old daughter Sierra were reported missing last May. The child’s body, believed to have been thrown into Memi lake near Xyliatos village, has not been found."
"A father of two estranged from his wife, Metaxas, using the ancient Greek name “Orestes”, contacted victims on an online dating site. Police say he told Tiburcio to bring her daughter along to their meeting, saying he had two children."
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Cyprus's 'first "serial killer" confesses to murdering SEVEN victims' | Daily Mail Online
The army officer suspect named locally as Nicos Metaxas, 35
"The 35-year-old Greek army officer - named locally as Nicos Metaxas - showed investigators where he had dumped a body in a well near an army firing range outside Nicosia, on Thursday.
Earlier police sources said he confessed to killing five women and two girls. All but one of the women was of Asian descent and he met at least two on dating websites.
One of their naked bodies was reportedly bound and wrapped in white sheet in a mine-shaft, Neos Kosmos reported.
The suspect reportedly met two of the women on dating website Badoo."
Maricar Valtez Arquiola, 31 (left) and Arian Palanos Lozano, 28, (right) - have been named by Cypriot media as victims
Cypriot media say the soldier is also suspected of killing Romanian mother Livia Florentina Bunea, 36, (left) and her eight-year-old daughter Elena Natalia (right) who went missing in 2016
The army officer suspect named locally as Nicos Metaxas, 35
"The 35-year-old Greek army officer - named locally as Nicos Metaxas - showed investigators where he had dumped a body in a well near an army firing range outside Nicosia, on Thursday.
Earlier police sources said he confessed to killing five women and two girls. All but one of the women was of Asian descent and he met at least two on dating websites.
One of their naked bodies was reportedly bound and wrapped in white sheet in a mine-shaft, Neos Kosmos reported.
The suspect reportedly met two of the women on dating website Badoo."
Maricar Valtez Arquiola, 31 (left) and Arian Palanos Lozano, 28, (right) - have been named by Cypriot media as victims
Cypriot media say the soldier is also suspected of killing Romanian mother Livia Florentina Bunea, 36, (left) and her eight-year-old daughter Elena Natalia (right) who went missing in 2016
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The alleged murderer, named locally as Nicos Metaxas, a 35-year-old Greek Cypriot army officer, claims he has killed five women and two girls and says he put some of the victims' bodies in suitcases.
Officers have been searching a man-made lake which is part of an abandoned copper mine, and a police official said a suitcase has been discovered using remote-control cameras.
Cyprus: Suitcase found in lake in search for more victims of 'serial killer'
Officers have been searching a man-made lake which is part of an abandoned copper mine, and a police official said a suitcase has been discovered using remote-control cameras.
Cyprus: Suitcase found in lake in search for more victims of 'serial killer'
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Serial killer Cyprus: diver salvages suitcase with body remains
A suitcase with mortal remains has been salvaged from the water of an artificial lake in Cyprus. According to the police, they are from a woman and it is one of the suspected victims of a serial killer.
The case is one of two that were located yesterday in Lake Kokkinopezoula. A diver deposited the suitcase this morning. He was wearing protective clothing because of the high toxicity of the lake. This is located on the site of a former pyrite mine that has been flooded.
The police suspect that the remains of one of the victims are from Nicos Metaxas (35). The Greek commander of the Cypriot National Guard announced on Thursday that he had killed seven foreign women and girls.
The army officer told the police that he had put the bodies of three of his victims in suitcases and dumped them in the lake. The Cypriot authorities continue to search for the third suitcase.
First serial killer ever
According to the authorities, Metaxas is the first serial killer ever in the island state. It consists of a Greek Cypriot part (the south) and a Turkish Cypriot (the north). The capital Nicosia is on the border between the two parts.
Lake Kokkinopezoula is located near the village of Mitsero in the Greek Cypriot part.
Three bodies
Following instructions from the army captain, the police found a third body on Thursday after two murdered women had already been discovered in a mine shaft. These are probably Filipino women who were reported missing in May and August 2018.
The victims were women who worked on the island. They were mostly of Asian descent. Metaxas met them through dating sites. The two murdered girls are children of women he killed.
Rage
The people of Cyprus reacted in astonishment but also with anger at the news about the serial killer. According to the largest opposition party AKEL, the police responded "slowly and unprecedentedly indifferent because the victims were not Cypriot."
The party demands the departure of the national police chief and the minister of justice. ,, Those women came here to make money, to help their family, they were far away from home. The earth swallowed them up and nobody was interested, "said a spokesperson.
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A suitcase with mortal remains has been salvaged from the water of an artificial lake in Cyprus. According to the police, they are from a woman and it is one of the suspected victims of a serial killer.
The case is one of two that were located yesterday in Lake Kokkinopezoula. A diver deposited the suitcase this morning. He was wearing protective clothing because of the high toxicity of the lake. This is located on the site of a former pyrite mine that has been flooded.
The police suspect that the remains of one of the victims are from Nicos Metaxas (35). The Greek commander of the Cypriot National Guard announced on Thursday that he had killed seven foreign women and girls.
The army officer told the police that he had put the bodies of three of his victims in suitcases and dumped them in the lake. The Cypriot authorities continue to search for the third suitcase.
First serial killer ever
According to the authorities, Metaxas is the first serial killer ever in the island state. It consists of a Greek Cypriot part (the south) and a Turkish Cypriot (the north). The capital Nicosia is on the border between the two parts.
Lake Kokkinopezoula is located near the village of Mitsero in the Greek Cypriot part.
Three bodies
Following instructions from the army captain, the police found a third body on Thursday after two murdered women had already been discovered in a mine shaft. These are probably Filipino women who were reported missing in May and August 2018.
The victims were women who worked on the island. They were mostly of Asian descent. Metaxas met them through dating sites. The two murdered girls are children of women he killed.
Rage
The people of Cyprus reacted in astonishment but also with anger at the news about the serial killer. According to the largest opposition party AKEL, the police responded "slowly and unprecedentedly indifferent because the victims were not Cypriot."
The party demands the departure of the national police chief and the minister of justice. ,, Those women came here to make money, to help their family, they were far away from home. The earth swallowed them up and nobody was interested, "said a spokesperson.
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LE think he may have at least 30 victims. Hoping the accused keeps talking, imo.
Cyprus Police Fear Serial Killer Slew Over 30, Preyed On Foreign Women - The National Herald
"The Limassol Intercultural Council called for the reopening of missing cases and investigation into foreign women thought by authorities to have left the country with their disappearance was never solved.
The number of victims was said to be “still unknown” while private forensic pathologist Marios Matsakis said, “We may never know the total number of victims,” the report added.
The chairwoman of the Federation of Filipino Organisations of Cyprus, Ester Beatty, said Lozano was the breadwinner of her family. “She used to send money to her family in the Philippines, her mother is blind and unwell,” Beatty told the Cyprus Mail.
She said the Filipino community on the island is anxious and people are urging each other on social media to be cautious and avoid meeting people they don’t know as the two victims reportedly met the confessed killer through an online dating site."
Cyprus Police Fear Serial Killer Slew Over 30, Preyed On Foreign Women - The National Herald
"The Limassol Intercultural Council called for the reopening of missing cases and investigation into foreign women thought by authorities to have left the country with their disappearance was never solved.
The number of victims was said to be “still unknown” while private forensic pathologist Marios Matsakis said, “We may never know the total number of victims,” the report added.
The chairwoman of the Federation of Filipino Organisations of Cyprus, Ester Beatty, said Lozano was the breadwinner of her family. “She used to send money to her family in the Philippines, her mother is blind and unwell,” Beatty told the Cyprus Mail.
She said the Filipino community on the island is anxious and people are urging each other on social media to be cautious and avoid meeting people they don’t know as the two victims reportedly met the confessed killer through an online dating site."
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Sad that it had taken so long before he was caught.But Cyprus always been complexed.One side Greece,the other Turkish.
I have often been on holiday in Greece and the tension between Greece and Turkey was already felt then.Soldiers everywhere, warn signs of militairy area with the text of no picture taking allowed.
Militaire at airports etc.
It was already included in the constitution of Greece at the time that as a foreigner (before the EU became a reality) you could not buy property. This was to prevent Turks from settling in Greece. Locals told that,that
came after Cyprus partly came into Turkish hands.
Serial killers are smart imo,and very,very manipulative.
I guess this perp picked foreign woman on an Island with tension splitted by two Nationalities.
I hope he revales his secrets and where his victims are dumped.For the sake of the families.
I have often been on holiday in Greece and the tension between Greece and Turkey was already felt then.Soldiers everywhere, warn signs of militairy area with the text of no picture taking allowed.
Militaire at airports etc.
It was already included in the constitution of Greece at the time that as a foreigner (before the EU became a reality) you could not buy property. This was to prevent Turks from settling in Greece. Locals told that,that
came after Cyprus partly came into Turkish hands.
Serial killers are smart imo,and very,very manipulative.
I guess this perp picked foreign woman on an Island with tension splitted by two Nationalities.
I hope he revales his secrets and where his victims are dumped.For the sake of the families.
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Couple of pics of the toxic lake:
Cyprus 'serial killer' detectives find woman's body in suitcase in toxic lake
Cyprus 'serial killer' detectives find woman's body in suitcase in toxic lake
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Very creepy... The disposed suitcases with the remains can been seen on video since 2017 but nobody knew the horror they contained back then.
Translated article:
Serial Killer Cyprus: There was video with suitcases from 2017
Translated article:
Serial Killer Cyprus: There was video with suitcases from 2017
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I get the impression by reading/viewing this article that the killer wanted his crimes to be discovered.He surely didn't take much effort to hide the bodies.
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The first serial killer in Cyprus killed his dates and their children: "This is how murder stories begin"
It started with one suitcase that came to the surface in a small lake after the rain. Two weeks later, Cyprus has seven deaths and the "first serial killer of the country." Army officer Nikos Metaxas (35) targeted foreign household aids and even lured their children into his fatal trap.
“This is how murder stories begin. A young American couple was unsuspecting on vacation in Cyprus. They went looking for a mysterious red lake where nobody ever comes. And they found out why . (...) Are you sure we want to get over that barbed wire? It stinks like this here, it looks like the smell of death, you know what I mean? You can feel death hanging here. "
He was meant to be playful, the video that American travel blogger Sarah Funk made in 2017. But now he gets a sinister note, certainly because of the shape of a suitcase that is visible in one of the images in the background. Because it is just from that red lake of Mitsero in Cyprus that the police are now pulling one suit after the other. Containing the almost decayed bodies of naked and tied women who had been missing for years.
The search started two weeks ago, when two other foreign tourists saw a suitcase floating. They alerted the police and discovered the body of Mary Rose Tiburcio, a Filipino domestic worker who had been missing since May 2018. Her telephone data pointed the police to Nikos Metaxas, a 35-year-old army officer, who almost immediately went down.
Ten-page confession
Army officer Nikos Metaxas.PHOTO: AFP
A few days ago he came up with a ten-page document in which he confessed a total of seven murders. He names his victims there by name and by name. All women, almost all household helpers with a different nationality who worked in Cyprus. She found Metaxas on dating sites like Badoo, where he had contact with at least thirty women under the pseudonym 'Orestes'. A little subtle pseudonym, because in Greek mythology Orestes was the brother of Elektra, who killed his mother and put her corpse in a coffin.
One of the women strangled Metaxas after having sex with her, agents say. He also killed the daughter of two of his victims. He would have asked the victim to bring her daughter to the first meeting because he himself had two children. He lives separately from his wife.
Missing but not wanted
The police now receive heavy criticism for its "indifference." Because the victims are all domestic workers from the Philippines, Romania or Nepal who have been missing for months or even years. In recent years, more than twenty household helpers with a different nationality have disappeared in Cyprus. The police do not make enough effort to find them, is the criticism. "They think that she will have fled to the (Turkish) north with her boyfriend," says Nikos Koutroukides of the Cypriot Association of Domestic Aids.
That the police caught the killer so soon after the discovery of the first body reinforces this thesis. Because it was enough to track the last calls from the first victim to catch the perpetrator.
Children still missing
Metaxas is the 'first serial killer ever' for Cyprus. On the island - as is the case everywhere - murder is sometimes committed, but that is usually in a family circle and then only about eight times a year. The last double murder dates from 1993, to a Swedish and a Ukrainian woman. Now the law doctors have seven bodies at once to investigate. Or rather: five, because the investigators are still looking for the two children.They follow the instructions from Metaxas themselves.
So far these indications are correct: the searches have been going on for two weeks at three locations in Cyprus. Four suitcases have already been dragged from the toxic lake. That lake is a former mine shaft and therefore very deep, making it difficult for divers to dive into the suitcases. Scotland Yard helps with the search.
Complaint for rape
Yesterday, another woman from the Philippines went to the police with the complaint against Metaxas, because she was raped by him in 2017. Metaxas himself had already written to the police in 2017 about the same woman, whom he described as an "ex-girlfriend" who sought revenge and threatened him. Then he asked the police not to interfere.
De eerste seriemoordenaar van Cyprus doodde zijn dates én hun kinderen: “Dit is hoe moordverhalen beginnen”
It started with one suitcase that came to the surface in a small lake after the rain. Two weeks later, Cyprus has seven deaths and the "first serial killer of the country." Army officer Nikos Metaxas (35) targeted foreign household aids and even lured their children into his fatal trap.
“This is how murder stories begin. A young American couple was unsuspecting on vacation in Cyprus. They went looking for a mysterious red lake where nobody ever comes. And they found out why . (...) Are you sure we want to get over that barbed wire? It stinks like this here, it looks like the smell of death, you know what I mean? You can feel death hanging here. "
He was meant to be playful, the video that American travel blogger Sarah Funk made in 2017. But now he gets a sinister note, certainly because of the shape of a suitcase that is visible in one of the images in the background. Because it is just from that red lake of Mitsero in Cyprus that the police are now pulling one suit after the other. Containing the almost decayed bodies of naked and tied women who had been missing for years.
The search started two weeks ago, when two other foreign tourists saw a suitcase floating. They alerted the police and discovered the body of Mary Rose Tiburcio, a Filipino domestic worker who had been missing since May 2018. Her telephone data pointed the police to Nikos Metaxas, a 35-year-old army officer, who almost immediately went down.
Ten-page confession
Army officer Nikos Metaxas.PHOTO: AFP
A few days ago he came up with a ten-page document in which he confessed a total of seven murders. He names his victims there by name and by name. All women, almost all household helpers with a different nationality who worked in Cyprus. She found Metaxas on dating sites like Badoo, where he had contact with at least thirty women under the pseudonym 'Orestes'. A little subtle pseudonym, because in Greek mythology Orestes was the brother of Elektra, who killed his mother and put her corpse in a coffin.
One of the women strangled Metaxas after having sex with her, agents say. He also killed the daughter of two of his victims. He would have asked the victim to bring her daughter to the first meeting because he himself had two children. He lives separately from his wife.
Missing but not wanted
The police now receive heavy criticism for its "indifference." Because the victims are all domestic workers from the Philippines, Romania or Nepal who have been missing for months or even years. In recent years, more than twenty household helpers with a different nationality have disappeared in Cyprus. The police do not make enough effort to find them, is the criticism. "They think that she will have fled to the (Turkish) north with her boyfriend," says Nikos Koutroukides of the Cypriot Association of Domestic Aids.
That the police caught the killer so soon after the discovery of the first body reinforces this thesis. Because it was enough to track the last calls from the first victim to catch the perpetrator.
Children still missing
Metaxas is the 'first serial killer ever' for Cyprus. On the island - as is the case everywhere - murder is sometimes committed, but that is usually in a family circle and then only about eight times a year. The last double murder dates from 1993, to a Swedish and a Ukrainian woman. Now the law doctors have seven bodies at once to investigate. Or rather: five, because the investigators are still looking for the two children.They follow the instructions from Metaxas themselves.
So far these indications are correct: the searches have been going on for two weeks at three locations in Cyprus. Four suitcases have already been dragged from the toxic lake. That lake is a former mine shaft and therefore very deep, making it difficult for divers to dive into the suitcases. Scotland Yard helps with the search.
Complaint for rape
Yesterday, another woman from the Philippines went to the police with the complaint against Metaxas, because she was raped by him in 2017. Metaxas himself had already written to the police in 2017 about the same woman, whom he described as an "ex-girlfriend" who sought revenge and threatened him. Then he asked the police not to interfere.
De eerste seriemoordenaar van Cyprus doodde zijn dates én hun kinderen: “Dit is hoe moordverhalen beginnen”
The stuff of nightmares and horror films!
Suitcase in the "Red Lake" / © Youtube
"These are scenes from the Red Lake next to the mines at Mitsero in July 2017, where, among other things, suitcases appear to be seen in the mud"
Cyprus police chief fired over serial killer case
May 3 2019
"NICOSIA, Cyprus -- The president of Cyprus fired the small island nation's police chief Friday, saying botched missing person investigations might have allowed a self-confessed serial killer to claim more victims.
President Nicos Anastasiades' action came the day after Cyprus' justice minister resigned amid intensifying criticism of police for mistakes in following up on the disappearances of some of the seven foreign women and girls a 35-year-old army captain has told authorities he killed.
In a letter to Police Chief Zacharias Chrysostomou, Anastasiades said the head of any organization must take responsibility for the actions of subordinates.
Members of the Cyprus Special Disaster Response Unit are seen in boat as they search for suitcases in a man-made lake, near the village of Mitsero outside of the capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday, April 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
"The "apparent negligence or failure of police personnel to carry out an investigation on missing persons" possibly contributed to the "abhorrent crimes that have shaken Cypriot society," the president wrote."
May 3 2019
"NICOSIA, Cyprus -- The president of Cyprus fired the small island nation's police chief Friday, saying botched missing person investigations might have allowed a self-confessed serial killer to claim more victims.
President Nicos Anastasiades' action came the day after Cyprus' justice minister resigned amid intensifying criticism of police for mistakes in following up on the disappearances of some of the seven foreign women and girls a 35-year-old army captain has told authorities he killed.
In a letter to Police Chief Zacharias Chrysostomou, Anastasiades said the head of any organization must take responsibility for the actions of subordinates.
Members of the Cyprus Special Disaster Response Unit are seen in boat as they search for suitcases in a man-made lake, near the village of Mitsero outside of the capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday, April 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
"The "apparent negligence or failure of police personnel to carry out an investigation on missing persons" possibly contributed to the "abhorrent crimes that have shaken Cypriot society," the president wrote."
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Cyprus police chief fired over serial killer case
May 3 2019
"NICOSIA, Cyprus -- The president of Cyprus fired the small island nation's police chief Friday, saying botched missing person investigations might have allowed a self-confessed serial killer to claim more victims.
President Nicos Anastasiades' action came the day after Cyprus' justice minister resigned amid intensifying criticism of police for mistakes in following up on the disappearances of some of the seven foreign women and girls a 35-year-old army captain has told authorities he killed.
In a letter to Police Chief Zacharias Chrysostomou, Anastasiades said the head of any organization must take responsibility for the actions of subordinates.
Members of the Cyprus Special Disaster Response Unit are seen in boat as they search for suitcases in a man-made lake, near the village of Mitsero outside of the capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday, April 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
"The "apparent negligence or failure of police personnel to carry out an investigation on missing persons" possibly contributed to the "abhorrent crimes that have shaken Cypriot society," the president wrote."
Word got to The Netherlands as well, there is also a paragraph, about foreign women and their poor working conditions in Cyprus.
Minister Cyprus resigns because of serial killer scandal
The search for serial killer victims this week in the Red Lake in Cyprus.
The Minister of Justice in Cyprus has resigned today because a serial killer has been able to go unnoticed for years on the island. The bodies of four women have now been found, while another woman and two girls are still being searched for.
Modern slavery'
Thanks to the case, the miserable circumstances now come to light under which many foreign women work in Cyprus. "Modern slavery", opponents say. It would be tens of thousands of women who work long days and earn far too little from it.
Minister Cyprus stapt op om schandaal seriemoordenaar
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Body in suitcase in lake is 'eight-year-old girl murdered by serial killer'
A body found in a suitcase in a toxic lake in Cyprus is believed to be that of a missing eight-year-old girl who - along with her mum - was allegedly murdered by a serial killer.
The child's body found on Sunday was in an advanced state of decomposition when officers retrieved the submerged suitcase and opened it.
It is believed to be Elena Natalia Bunea, and the discovery came after a body believed to belong to her mother, Livia Florentina Bunea, 36, was found in a suitcase in the same lake on April 28, according to local reports.
A body found in a suitcase in a toxic lake in Cyprus is believed to be that of a missing eight-year-old girl who - along with her mum - was allegedly murdered by a serial killer.
The child's body found on Sunday was in an advanced state of decomposition when officers retrieved the submerged suitcase and opened it.
It is believed to be Elena Natalia Bunea, and the discovery came after a body believed to belong to her mother, Livia Florentina Bunea, 36, was found in a suitcase in the same lake on April 28, according to local reports.
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Possible sign of third suitcase in lake as robotic camera sent back in (Update 1) - Cyprus Mail
Using state-of-the-art sonar and a robotic camera, the search at the Mitsero red lake resumed Monday morning for a third suitcase that may contain the remains of one of the seven victims of a serial killer.
[...]
The sonar swept the lake from the morning, recording data in the search for a third victim. After the data was to be analysed and there was evidence something might be there, a decision to send divers would be made.
Reports from the scene at around 11.30am said the robotic camera had been sent back into the lake and that this was a sign something had been located. Minutes later divers began preparing their boat and gear to enter the lake.
Using state-of-the-art sonar and a robotic camera, the search at the Mitsero red lake resumed Monday morning for a third suitcase that may contain the remains of one of the seven victims of a serial killer.
[...]
The sonar swept the lake from the morning, recording data in the search for a third victim. After the data was to be analysed and there was evidence something might be there, a decision to send divers would be made.
Reports from the scene at around 11.30am said the robotic camera had been sent back into the lake and that this was a sign something had been located. Minutes later divers began preparing their boat and gear to enter the lake.
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