The news of the murder of Eleftheria Giakoumakis in Dafnes Heraklion has caused shock and many unanswered questions. More specifically, the 43-year-old woman was found dead from a bullet to the head after days of searches to find her, just hours after her 39-year-old former partner ended his life.
From the moment the 43-year-old went missing, suspicion had fallen on the 39-year-old. People close to Eleftheria Giakoumakis’ friends and family said before her murder was even confirmed that the 39-year-old was very jealous and obsessed with the victim and capable of going ahead with the crime. Newer reports said he had hidden a GPS in her car to track her movements.
This evidence adds to the mass of information that wanted the 43-year-old to live in constant fear because of her ex. Although Eleftheria Giakoumaki, a mother of three, decided to take her life in her own hands and divorce him, the 39-year-old could not cope.
“I knew he had killed her but I didn’t want to believe it,” Eleftheria’s mother said a few hours after learning her daughter had breathed her last in his car.
After shooting her point-blank with a bullet to the head, the 39-year-old set up an entire plan to cover his tracks and throw authorities off the trail.
After his testimony, in which he was contradicted, the 39-year-old took the gun and killed himself near the chapel of St Panteleimon in Daphnes.
Friends, relatives and neighbours of the 43-year-old woman will bid her farewell at noon on Friday at the St George’s Church in Daphnes.
While at the same time, the funeral of the perpetrator will be held.
Cameras gave away the 39-year-old’s movements
According to the evidence in the hands of the security officers and based on the cameras that recorded the movements of the 39-year-old murderer and suicide bomber, it all started last Sunday morning.
The 43-year-old mother of three left her home in a white Honda at 11:02am to go to her pre-arranged appointment with her former partner at the chapel of St Panteleimon in Dafnes.
He begged her to meet him for the last time. So four minutes later she arrived at the spot. He did not expect the meeting was in fact a deathbed rendezvous.
The 39-year-old was waiting for her at the scene. With a nine-gauge pistol in his hand, he approached her through the passenger window and, without actually exchanging a word, shot her point-blank once in the head. He then takes his motorbike in order to return to his home in Malades to complete his plan to make his ex-partner disappear. But he crashes his motorbike, is injured and is forced to change his plans.
So, at 12:00 noon, a camera records him walking on the provincial road between Heraklion and Mires, taking a taxi and returning home. There, with quick movements, he takes the smart car and returns to the scene of the crime. He gets into the white Honda and carries the vehicle of Eleftheria, carries the body of his former partner to Agia Varvara, where he abandons it, after placing it in the back seat. A few minutes later, at 13:13, another camera records him moving on foot, essentially disappearing from the spot and returning to his house. First he made sure to dispose of the 9-gauge handgun he procured to murder the 43-year-old woman.
At 7pm, from his ex-partner’s mobile phone, the 39-year-old sent a coded message to her son that his mother would supposedly call him later and hung up the phone.
That’s where authorities and her relatives begin their search to locate her. In the end, her body was found Wednesday in her car, putting a tragic end to the agony of her family in the most tragic way possible.
