She was temporarily detained after her apology, with the unanimous decision of the regular investigator and the Deputy Prosecutor of the Rhodes Plenary Court, the 45-year-old housekeeper for the murder of the bedridden elderly woman[/B] she was caring for in Kalithies.
The defendant claimed a reduced charge due to schizophrenia and submitted previous medical reports and documents from her confinement in psychiatric institutions in Leros, Crete and Cyprus. According to reports, she will be transferred to Korydallos prison where a psychiatric expert examination will be carried out.
The elderly woman's relatives are shocked. The 45-year-old woman, as she claimed in her apology, in the early hours of the morning, she kept hearing a voice saying "have mercy on her, have mercy on her, she is suffering" and began to see shadows moving around the room. The voices, she said, were asking her to deliver the bedridden woman.
The timeline of the crime
He approached her on the bed, put his hand over the elderly woman's mouth and then held her nose with the intention of suffocating her. She then grabbed a pillow and completed her act as she described. When she realised what had happened she called the police herself. The description in her statement to the police coincides perfectly with the findings of the Rhodes coroner on the victim's face from the perpetrator's hand.
According to him, her death was due to "drowning by obstruction of the airway orifices". In her first examination, she shocked police officers after she went on to confess to three other murders of helpless elderly women. One in 2011 in Leros, two others in 2022 in Rhodes and the attempted homicide of her son in 2002, when the child was one year old. She tried to drown him and then she was arrested and ended up incarcerated for several years in a mental hospital in Leros.
Three cases were filed against her. One for the manslaughter of Flora Kazellis and two other preliminary ones. One for the two elderly women in Rhodes and the other for the elderly woman in Leros, which will be sent to the prosecutor's office in Kos, due to jurisdiction. These deaths are expected to be thoroughly examined.
"Perhaps the abusive environment she grew up in triggered her actions."
Stelios Alexandris, lawyer of the housekeeper, spoke to the show "Light in the Tunnel", who estimated that what triggered her actions was the fact that she grew up in an abusive environment. "We understand that this woman's mental status was what created the crime. It is a great pity for the woman who passed away so ingloriously and for the man who was called upon to protect her," he said.
Alexandris referred to the 45-year-old woman's family environment, stressing that her parents beat her and treated her badly. "I don't know if that triggered the situation she subsequently found herself in, with severe mental trauma," he said, adding that neither her social nor her family environment paid attention to her.
"We had her for two weeks and she drowned her."
A close relative of the deceased elderly woman in Rhodes, who was murdered by the woman hired to care for her, spoke to a Tunnel reporter about the shocking incident. "She had just two weeks of caring for her. They were both happy, or at least they seemed to be. Now what happened to get to this point, we don't know anything more... They (the relatives) called her, she didn't pick up the phone and they were worried.
Shortly after she picked up the phone and said he had killed her. My brother-in-law calls us worried that something has happened. When we arrived at the scene, the police were already there, she had alerted them. Flora was finished... She died by drowning. When they called me to go upstairs, they called my son, he went in and saw her, the police wouldn't let us in. My brother-in-law who used to visit her often and take care of her, he is shocked, he is sick," she said.
She and her brother-in-law were the ones who hired her after some recommendations they got, since her son has been in an institution for years. "She was looking after two others here in the village. We asked and they told us that they were happy with this particular housekeeper," she said.
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