Five cold-blooded murders and six serious injuries were committed by taxi driver Dimitris Vakrinos in the space of a year, making him Greece's first serial killer. Dimitris Vakinos killed anyone he felt was... wronged.
Not many years ago, we are talking about 1995-97, when Greece was shaken by his crimes.
As reported by the Time Machine, on December 21, 1995, he killed Kostas and Antonis Spyropoulos in cold blood, as he felt he was wronged financially. Vakinos sold them a car for 600,000 drachmas against the original deal of 700 thousand, so he went to get it back with a key he had kept. But the brothers heard him and started chasing him with another car.
When Vakrinos ran out of gasoline he stopped at a gas station but the Spiropoulis followed him. However, Bakrinos had guns on him. He did not hesitate to start shooting, and when he emptied the first gun, he went to the car and got another one, shooting brothers again.
In May 1996, Vakrinos killed Serafim Ajanidis because, as he had told the police, he had ruined a matchmaking with a girl he was in love with and therefore had to die. Vakrinos went to Ayanides' house wearing a hood, rang the doorbell, but the victim's mother saw him through the peephole and alerted the police. Vakrinos hid and waited until Ajanides appeared and killed him. He did not even hesitate, when the police officers who had been alerted by the victim's mother arrived, to shoot them as well as Ajanidis' father.
Besides being a brutal and bloodthirsty murderer, Vakrinos stole cars and motorbikes while working as a taxi driver. It was one of his thefts that led to his arrest, as he was seen by a woman leaving in a taxi.
Officers went to taxi ranks asking if he had picked up a short and petite man, however they got nowhere until one officer thought he was not a customer but a taxi driver.
He was arrested in May 1997, taken to security and taken into custody. In his testimony he confessed to the murders that were already known, of the brothers and Ajanidis, but revealed three more: His first victim was his roommate, Panagiotis Daglias, who had... stolen - as he claimed - a shotgun.
His second victim was Anastasia Simitzi, who had insulted him by calling him "short", while he had also killed a fellow taxi driver, Theodoros Andreadis, who had killed him because he had not let him take a customer in his taxi and then burned his taxi as well. Perhaps for the eyes of the world, he went to his funeral as normal.
A few days later, Vakrinos was found dead in his cell, having hung himself with the laces of his shoes, before he had a chance to stand trial. Police officers and psychologists labeled him a serial killer. They said he had complexes from his father's abusive behaviour and because he was short, through the murders he was "baking."
His first outburst was when he burned down his first father-in-law's cottage, but then he evolved into a serial killer.
Source: in.gr
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