It has been over a month since the Caroline Crouch murder in Athens and the perpetrators are still at large, while many questions remain unanswered.
The three burglars purportedly killed Crouch by suffocation, after they had tied up and gagged her husband in the next room.
The Crouch murder took place at Glyka Nera, a rapidly-growing suburb in the northeastern part of Athens.
The Greek police continue to be puzzled over several very important issues regarding the murder of the 20-year-old woman next to her 11-month-old toddler in the early hours of May 11.
The perpetrators reportedly also killed the family’s dog before breaking in to stop it from alerting the neighbors.
Although the analysis of the crime scene seems to indicate that there was an intrusion of rogue criminals, the evidence from that is negligible compared to other robbery cases.
There were no fingerprints on the scene, no DNA samples to indicate struggle or sexual assault, no camera footage, no cell phone records.
The second issue that remains unanswered is the description of the robbery as given by the husband, Charalambos Anagnostopoulos, and certain questions that arise from it.
Burglary apparently left no traces
Police are pondering over the burglary and the fact that there is no evidence to prove there even was one. The generates a few questions:
Why there are no signs of struggle on the body of Caroline Crouch?
Why there are no traces of genetic material under the fingernails of the unfortunate woman?
Why did the intruders tried to tie down and gag Crouch instead of killing her right away?
Why did they suffocate her for four to five minutes when two minutes would suffice for her to lose consciousness?
Why did the perpetrators — who had been otherwise very careful — not take with them or destroy the couple’s cell phones that were sitting on the bedside table?
Why did the murderers take with them the memory card from the security camera when they could have simply destroyed it?
Why did the neighbors not hear voices from the couple’s supposed protracted efforts to resist the robbers?
Why were the robbers so unprepared as to not bring any rope or duct tape to tie down their victims?
Why were they so tidy, taking the 11,500 euros hidden in the Monopoly box under a stack of books — without scattering things around, as in almost every other robbery?
Husband says Caroline Crouch murder most likely perpetrated by Albanians
Last week, Anagnostopoulos told police that he recognized the language the murderers were speaking to be Albanian.
According to a SKAI television report, Crouch’s husband was shown 150 photos of known criminals.
At the same time, ELAS has a list of 15 suspects that match the Anagnostopoulos’ description of the intruders.
Crouch’s husband said that one of them is very close to the leader of the gang as he remembers from that night.
There is an arrest warrant for a suspect from early on in the investigation. Also, ten of the suspects shown to Anagnostopoulos match the description of the leader.
In addition, unmatched DNA material was found in the attic where the money was hidden. Authorities are also investigating three suspicious cars that were detected in the area.
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