Antonis Daglis

{{short description|Greek serial killer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2024}} {{Infobox serial killer | name= Antonis Daglis | image= | caption= | birth_name= Antonis Daglis | other_names= The Athens Ripper | birth_date= 1974 | birth_place= | death_date={{Death date and age|1997|08|02|1974|df=y}} | death_place = Greece | penalty= Life imprisonment plus 25 years | victims= 3 murders<br>6 attempted murders | beginyear= 1992 | endyear= 1995 | country= Greece | states= Attica | mo = | motive = | apprehended= }} '''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. Referred to as the '''Athens Ripper'''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://leftoffield.net/serial-killers-from-greece/|title=Serial Killers from Greece|website=Left of Field|date=2019|access-date=27 March 2026}}</ref> he was sentenced to thirteen terms of life imprisonment, plus 25 years.<ref name="hri.org">{{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}}</ref><ref>Amanda Howard and Martin Smith, ''River of Blood: Serial Killers And Their Victims''. Universal Publishers, 2004. {{ISBN|1-58112-518-6}}</ref>

==Crimes== Daglis, a truck driver,<ref name="hri.org"/> preyed upon Athens prostitutes between 1992 and 1995. He had been a repeat juvenile offender since the age of 14.<ref name="A.N.A. Bulletin, 1-26-96">{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref name="A.N.A. Bulletin, 1-26-96"/>

Daglis was initially suspected of two murders after he was arrested for the rape and abduction of an English woman named Ann Hamson.<ref>Amanda Howard and Martin Smith, ''River of Blood: Serial Killers And Their Victims'', page 108, Universal Publishers, 2004. {{ISBN|1-58112-518-6}}</ref> 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.<ref name="hri.org"/> 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.<ref name="A.N.A. Bulletin, 1-26-96"/> Daglis subsequently confessed to the previously unsolved murder of a prostitute whose dismembered body was found in a dumpster in 1992.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.berlinonline.de/|title=BerlinOnline - Abschied|website=www.berlinonline.de|access-date=15 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>

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."<ref name="A.N.A. Bulletin, 1-26-96"/> He revealed that he hated prostitutes because his mother had been one.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

On 2 August 1997, Daglis was found hanging dead in his cell, along with his cellmate G. Makridis, in an apparent suicide pact.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

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