A pattern of attacks in Athens
During the first half of the 1990s, a series of attacks against women working in the sex trade in Athens developed into one of Greece's best-known serial-homicide investigations. Contemporary and later Greek reporting identifies truck driver Antonis Daglis as the man eventually held responsible for three killings and a wider series of attempted murders, robberies and sexual offenses.
Investigation and arrest
Police attention focused on Daglis in 1996 while investigating attacks on women in Athens. Reporting based on the investigation says that information from a surviving victim and the identification of a vehicle helped investigators narrow their search. After his arrest, prosecutors connected Daglis to multiple crimes committed over several years. Accounts of the investigation include statements he made to police, but this file treats the later court verdict—not any pretrial confession—as the controlling finding of criminal responsibility.
The 1997 verdict
On January 23, 1997, an Athens court convicted Daglis of three murders and six attempted murders, along with additional offenses. Greek news outlets reviewing the case report that the court imposed thirteen life terms and a further 25 years of imprisonment. Contemporary Athens News Agency reporting, preserved in later archives, likewise recorded the convictions for three murders, six attempted murders and robberies. The sentence was described at the time as exceptionally severe under Greece's post-death-penalty legal framework.
Death in custody
Daglis did not serve the sentence for long. Later Greek reporting records that he was found dead in his cell at Korydallos Prison in August 1997, months after the conviction. His death ended any future prosecution or appellate proceedings involving him, but the January judgment remained the definitive judicial outcome for the murders and attempted murders for which he had been tried.
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Case context
The facts presented here are limited to the conduct reflected in the conviction and to later reporting on the investigation and sentence. Descriptions of motive found in retrospective accounts are not necessary to establish the court outcome and are therefore not treated as explanations for the crimes.