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Nikos Metaxas, the National Guard Officer who was accused of murdering five women and two girls in Cyprus, was convicted on Monday afternoon in a Nicosia court and sentenced to serve seven life sentences for his crimes. As Cyprus' Public Broadcasting Corporation...

A body belonging to another one of the seven victims of Nikos Metaxas, alleged to be the Cypriot serial killer, was found on Wednesday afternoon in the area of Xyliato, inside Memi Lake. The body of a six-year old girl...

Kypros Michaelides apologized on Tuesday on behalf of the Cypriot police to the families of the victims of Nicos Metaxas, the admitted serial killer from Cyprus. The new chief of the Cypriot Police Force made his apology during the official ceremony on Tuesday...

  Cyprus' chief of police Zacharias Chrysostomou was sacked by President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday over his force’s failure to properly investigate missing persons reports. The missing women turned out to be the victims of Cyprus' first serial killer. This comes...

Cyprus Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou resigned on Thursday over the police's failure to properly investigate missing migrant women who became victims of the country's first serial killer. After a two-hour meeting with President Nicos Anastasiades, Nicolaou said he had submitted...

A number of British forensic experts have been in Cyprus for the last several days to assist local authorities in the unprecedented case of multiple murders carried out by an officer of the National Guard. Cypriot authorities briefed Scotland Yard officials...

According to a report by Kathimerini Cyprus,a woman from the Philippines added a new dimension to the Mitseros serial killer case after she filed a complaint that she had been raped by the suspect, Nicos Metaxas. The 35-year-old Greek-Cypriot army officer...

A 35-year-old Greek-Cypriot army officer has reportedly confessed to murdering seven women and girls in what local media have called the island's "first serial killings." Two bodies were found in a mine shaft earlier this month and a third one...

The Cypriot Police are investigating the murders of three people after a 35-year old officer of the National Guard admitted that he killed a 38-year old woman, her six-year old daughter, and another woman. Police authorities found the body of...

The killing of a 52-year-old cab driver in the early hours of Tuesday in northern Athens has led Hellenic Police to suspect that it might be the act of a serial killer who targets taxi drivers. On Wednesday, Greek police...

Greek Police arrested a 31-year-old Albanian serial killer who is responsible for the death of at least three people with the method of strangulation. According to the police announcement, after the killings, the 31-year-old was stealing items of great...

A third dead body was found in Cyprus on Holy Thursday afternoon at around 16:00 local time (13:00 GMT), believed to be part of the shocking case of the 35-year old National Guard officer who admitted to being a...

A controversial decision by the Greek prison authorities to transfer November 17 hitman Dimitris Koufodinas to a prison farm has been followed by the transfer of another convicted N17 member, Christodoulos Xiros. Xiros, 59, -- convicted of six murders connected to the...

The decision by the Greek prison authorities to transfer November 17 hitman Dimitris Koufodinas to a prison farm near Volos in central Greece has led to widespread condemnation by opposition politicians. Koufodinas -— currently serving a number of life sentences...

Aggeliki Nikolouli officially presented her first detective novel on Wednesday June 27, 2012, at Politia Tennis Club in Athens. Writer Giannis Kakoulides and Professor of Criminology at the University of Athens Giannis Panousis praised Nikoloulis’s first attempt  at writing....