The latest image posted on Instagram by the helicopter pilot Babis Anagnostopoulos, 33, a snapshot of his wedding: he and his wife Caroline Crouch are holding hands smiling on a Greek beach, in their ceremony clothes.
That shot was posted exactly one month ago: then Caroline, 20, had only been dead for 7 days, suffocated in the house in Athens where the couple lived with their daughter of a few months. Thieves broke into our apartment, tied me up and killed her. They took away 15,000 euros from us, the pilot said right from the start, on 11 May. But his version never convinced the investigators and in the end they managed to unmask him thanks to the smartwatch worn by his wife and his mobile phone: technological tools that are part of everyone’s life. And they record it accurately.
And so when the memorial ceremony for his wife ended on the island of Alonissos where she had grown up despite being born in the United Kingdom, the investigators waited for Babis to hug her mother-in-law before taking him to the barracks. There was a turning point in the investigation, they told him, and there was a suspect to identify. Babis fell into the trap and, after 8 hours of interrogation, he confessed.
Babis’s embrace with her mother-in-law, after the funeral, in a frame from Alpha Tv
What framed him was the biometric revelations of the victim’s watch: they showed that his heart was still beating at the time when the husband had said that his wife was already dead. But the pilot’s cell phone also told another truth with respect to his reconstruction: when he said he was tied up, the cell phone recorded his movements in the house. Finally, the apartment surveillance system: the time the data cards were removed from the security camera ended up drowning out the killer’s tale.
To announce and tell the news of the confession, in Greece the national TV has interrupted the coverage of the European football championships, while cars and passersby – said the BBC journalist Kostas Koukoumakas – have stopped outside the cafes in Athens to follow the latest developments of the case.
June 18, 2021 (change June 19, 2021 | 12:41)
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