Fatal First Date: Facebook Encounter That Turned Deadly | The Grisly Murder of Eleni Topaloudi

Imagine taking a morning walk along a beautiful Cliffside Beach the water is sparkling the breeze blowing through your hair birds are chirping and there's just this peacefulness that washes over you but this is a familiar walk you know this beach you live nearby you almost memorize its Cliffs and its rock formations and the Jetties as the water crashes over them and because you're so familiar with the way things look when Something's out of place it catches your eye and on the morning of November 28th 2018 that's exactly what happened a couple was taking their morning

stroll when they spotted something large and out of place in the shallows among the jagged rocks of their local Beach it looked strange and it made them stop in their tracks but as they tried to strain their eyes to figure out what it was the waves would wash over it again and again so they tried to put it in the back of Their minds and they kept walking but when they arrived home they couldn't stop thinking about the mysterious object below their Cliffside home so the husband took out his binoculars he fixed them on the

location of the object and focused in on those rocks it didn't take long for him to recognize something else familiar to him the form of a human body lifeless unclothed and at the mercy of the current in the icy waters of AIA beach in Greece hi everyone welcome back To my channel and if you've never been here before I'm kimberla it's nice to finally meet you and I cannot believe we are now past Halloween and we're coming up on the holidays and with all the hustle and bustle of the holidays coming up and of course

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murder and not much else so I was determined to get the story as close to exactly what happened as possible and tell you everything I Can find about the victim and her family and I think because it's International and I had to translate a lot of things that could be why there were so many misconceptions and things wrong from what I read in the US our laws punish those who break them but it took a long time to get here and other countries unfortunately are far behind and that scares me why well because we see

all these beautiful pictures of people traveling all over the world we've all Seen them on Instagram those perfectly POS tan bodies on the Sands of beautiful foreign beaches or sipping a latte at a cozy International coffee shop the spectacular buildings and gorgeous views abroad places like the one we're talking about today is highlighted all the time and that's Greece I have never been to Greece and I can't say that I've ever even thought about going there until I saw influencers taking those oh so popular photos in Santorini and you know The ones I'm talking about

the photo shoots high above the white buildings with the Blue Domes to match the vividly Blue Water below just Google influencers and sanini and you could scroll forever and there isn't any denying how breathtaking that view really is who wouldn't want to visit well after you hear this story maybe you won't this isn't meant to be an anti-t trvel or anti-g grease specific video but it will definitely open your eyes to a lot of Things that I think the pretty pictures leave out the ugly side of such a beautiful destination The Human Side or I

should say inhuman side sure the landscape is as they say to die for but what if you were truly paying with your life by being there this case and many others like it make me realize how little many Americans including myself truly understand how different our countries are especially our laws or maybe their laws and lack thereof so to Greece we go virtually anyway to the white sandy beaches the crystal clear waters of the aian sea it's a place where you can see ancient ruins right alongside modern cities but beyond the idyllic scenery there are

deep social issues that usually don't make it onto Instagram feeds in recent years Greece has been grappling with the impact of widespread misogyny which is a Greek word by the way that translates to hatred for women and Greece is also Dealing with xenophobia another word of Greek origin that means stranger fearing or as we know it prejudice against people from other places other countries these are not new issues but a few recent cases have brought them into the spotlight again now Greece and other countries around the world are forced to confront uncomfortable truths about women

and minorities and how they're treated so that was my preface and as lengthy as it may have been first of all Thank you for sitting through that but it's never going to be talked about enough and change has to happen this case highlights that fact and I'm going to be talking about the brutal murder of a young Greek University student whose whole life was ahead of her and sadly her story didn't end with her final breath or even the criminal investigation that followed instead her case Expos the darker side of Greek society and the evil

minds of her Killers and the truths that those in power would rather hide than confront they'd rather blame the victim than admit How Deeply their problems go so I wanted want to take you back to that early November morning in 2018 when the married couple was walking along the Cliffside Beach and they saw the mysterious object Below in the shallow water you know from the beginning of this video that after getting binoculars the husband realized he was looking at The body of a human being it was 7:30 a.m. when he rushed to call the authorities

and due to the fact that they were dealing with a deceased victim in a body of water the Coast Guard Thomas zovas was assigned to this case this area of the Beach was almost like its own little Bay a Cove below the rocky Cliff an indent along the coast of the island of rades or roads as we would say here in the United States so that's how I'm going to pronounce it roads Surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea this beach itself isn't a touristy area it's isolated and what's more is that the spot where the body

was located was really hard to reach it was below a 30t drop so 10 m down in a part of the beach where there was no land access the Coast Guard knew he'd need professional divers to come out and to come quickly because this was a dire situation it was just merely by chance that this body hadn't been pulled out to the vast Mediterranean Sea by the current and at any moment it could become dislodged from the Rocks as it was being cradled by three of them and it could disappear forever look on this map

and how vast this body of water is anything that made it beyond that bay would float away and make its way to the North Atlantic and never be seen again so they had to act fast the waves were strong and with every crash the chance of that body slipping under and being pulled away From Shore was greater and greater I'm blurring this photo but I am going to show you things in this video because it is so important for you to understand how horrendous the story is I'm blurring this out but you can make out

the light skinin on the silhouette of this body and there there were three Boulders stopping it from floating away Coast Guard official Thomas zovas could see from his vantage point that it appeared to be the naked body of a woman here is A blurred video clip of the waves and how rough they were crashing around those rocks and the body in between them soon professional divers the sealess Manos and Costas balafas came to the location in immedi immediately they were shocked by the mere fact that the body was still there Costa said in a quote

in a video later that I have translated since all my research was in Greek he said quote by coincidence we had arrived early and the conditions were such that We were able to find her by chance if the weather took her out of the Embrace of the bay we would have never found her the southern wind kept her in the harbor end quote in cases like this the divers will always take rope and a floating stretcher with them and when they get to a body they wrap the Rope under both of the arms and across

the chest securely and then pull the body onto the stretcher to get them to shore so that was their initial plan but they were in A rush so they couldn't take the stretcher their first priority was making sure the body didn't disappear so they only brought the Rope which they called a makeshift solution the water was murky and it was rough and they had to swim quite a distance around 400 ft to the rocks costus made it to the body first and seedless threw him the Rope which he ended up unfortunately having to tie around

the victim's legs near Her Ankles in a hurry just to make sure they Weren't going to lose her and it was a her it was clear as they got close she was unclothed except for a bra she was face down in the water her skin was very pale almost Blue from how cold it was and her long dark hair contrasted against the White Wave crests when kasus got closer he realized the woman was tall almost 6 ft tall and he and vilus were worried about how they were going to get her to shore but first

costos turned the Woman over and when the men who had seen their fair share of deceased individuals saw this woman's face they were in shock they both said they were speechless it actually physically took their breath away she was so badly beaten she was unrecognizable they quickly realized that this was not an accidental fall from a cruise ship or even the Cliffs of above she had been murdered they couldn't spend too much time making any other observations in that moment Because they had to get her to shore where officers could assist them in transporting her

body to the morg for an autopsy including identification since there were no personal effects with the victim in the water now this next part might sound insensitive but please be aware that the equipment available isn't Advance as you might have expected in this situation there were no helicopters no stretcher no jet skis and a basket to move her to the Sandy Beach just two men And a rope and as bad as it might sound they dragged her through the Water by that rope tied to her ankles as they swam to shore now I did watch

a video of this and it made my stomach queasy just knowing that she was being dragged like that through the water and even up to the beach by her legs but they recovered her body and that's the most important thing and of course I can't show you the entire video but I took screenshots blurred of course so you can understand This part because it was heavily misreported elsewhere that the victim was found with her ankles tied together and that is incorrect I actually know that's incorrect not just from this video interview with the divers that

I found on YouTube and translated but there are Greek articles that makes it very clear as well as a press conference by the Coast Guard himself but I also have an unbled photograph of the victim floating in the water before she was Recovered and her legs are not tied together but to make my point here's a blurred photo for reference because this comes up again when the Coast Guard and the officials take photos of her on Shore remember that she's already tied by her ankles when she's pulled onto the beach this is where I think

the misconception started someone saw the photos I'm about to show you next and they concluded that her legs had been tied by whoever killed her but as soon As the victim arrived on that Sandy Beach official placed her on a stretcher at which point they saw a distinguishing feature on the back of her right calf a tattoo of a rose and since they wanted to identify her as soon as possible they took a picture of it and that's all they had to go on since her face was so badly beaten there would have been no

way for a loved one or even a friend to tell who she was after documenting the tattoo she was covered in a blue tarp and Transported up a tall set of stone stairs to a dirt Ro above the cliff the Coast Guard Special Operations team was leading this case and officer zovas was determined to find out what happened to this young girl and who was responsible so he began contacting locals hadto two shops hoping that one of the artists would recognize their own work and sure enough one of them did and he had a record

of the transaction which wasn't too long ago just a few months he gave The officer the customers information her name was aleni Tudi and it didn't take them long to find out she was a 21-year-old fourthe student at the University of aan it was located on the same island of Roads part of the deines islands they made contact with the school on November 30th and the school informs officer zovas that Elena's parents called in that same day inquiring about their daughter she hadn't made it to class the last few Days and now we know why

aleni and her family were not locals of roads they were from a much smaller town in Greece called Viv Moto a long 14-hour drive away the officers got in touch with the local police department in her small town and explained that he was looking for the family of alenny tooli that last name was very familiar with the vioo police because alen's father Giannis he was actually the deputy mayor in town and him and his wife Kula had actually Reported alenny missing on the same morning they had been concerned that they hadn't heard from her in

a number of days the local police reached out to Giannis and koua that night and asked them a question that confirmed their worst fears they asked does your daughter have a tattoo on her leg a black rose and they knew that she did Giannis erased to the police station and they showed him a picture probably the same one or similar to the one I showed You of the back of alen's legs as she laid on that stretcher with a rope around her ankles he knew it was his daughter and that she was no longer alive

this dark moment would become even darker when the truth was completely uncovered Giannis and his brother take the very next flight that they could find and they arrive in roads on December 1st to make an in-person identification it was their beloved daughter elenie and of course as you can Imagine her loved ones their world came crashing down it was one of their biggest fears since she left for college from such a small town to a touristy Island like rhs but how could this nightmare be real alenny Tudi was born on the 15th of January in

1997 in the town called Viv Modo in Greece now I'm doing my very best with the Greek pronunciations here so please forgive me if they're not perfect elenni is actually a derivative of the name Helen Named after her grandmother and great-grandmother and she was the first child to her parents who have already introduced you to Yannis andula and she was her mother's world and I'm not just saying that to be cliche because it's true we hear phrases like that all the time to describe the love that a mother has for their child but I can

tell you I did a lot of research and this boss was very deep Kula longed for a child for so many years and she didn't get Pregnant until she was in her 30s 34 to be exact her and her husband were of course very happy together but they couldn't wait to have children finally she gave birth to Al lenie and from the moment she found out she was pregnant she would sing lullab right to her stomach with alenny inside she would play classical music and read her ancient Greek literature which koua had been obsessed with

since she was a teenager she had been a student of Classic Greek literature herself and hoped to pass that love onto elenni Kula was a kindergarten teacher and Yannis was also a teacher so they of course loved to learn and they wanted to enrich their child's life with the Arts and the love of family from the moment that alenny came home from the hospital and was in the arms of her mother's sister her aunt litaa who she would often confuse for her mother when she was a baby to her very first bath her whole Family

took part in welcoming her to their family Kola would dress baby elenni in the cutest little outfits along with headbands and socks with bows on them she looked like a real life baby doll and those outfits continue through her toddler and preschool stages and for special occasions Kula would put alenny in dresses with matching coats and even tights and a necklace on her second birthday the family dressed up and lit two candles on a cake for alenny her Proud parents smiling behind her as all three of them held hands one picture of Kula alenny and

her grandma mother shows baby elenni putting yellow flowers on top of her head and it looks like a flower crown this picture of Kola and elenni and her preschool class is adorable and it's evidence of how happy and proud Kula was to be a mother and what a blessing a Lenny was she was into the Arts from a young age playing an angel in her kindergarten play and as She grew so did her bond with her family elenni was a happy loving child who was always smiling Kula said they were the happiest people in the

world their little family of three they had everything they could have ever wanted except maybe another child and soon they'd get one little elenie was so excited when her mom became pregnant with her little brother Petro elen was 9 years old when he was born and she lovingly kissed her mama's belly to show The love she already had for him when her mom was pregnant on Petro's second birthday the family of four now posed for a picture with his cake this time and aen smiling at the camera despite her left arm being in a cast

and I'm sure it was from playing a little too hard she was an active little girl very free-spirited and full of life there was Zero crime zero in their small town so she was free to run and play outside with little Petro but as her parents Hoped as elenni was growing up education was of course a big part of her life she loved to learn always trying to improve her English German and Arabic yes three languages alen's father traveled to Jordan to teach Arabic and had taken many foreign language courses so he inspired elenni to

do the same from a young age but as teachers alen's parents didn't just buy her books in hopes that she would be inspired to learn instead they took her to see the Arts in person They took her to trips to Athens a number of times too many to count and to the Athens Pol Technic to leave flowers in memory of the people who resisted and fought for democracy and to the Acropolis a number of different plays at theaters and a bunch of museums including one in Parthenon they even visited the star Roos necros foundation and

they did the same with their son petro and by the time he was in high school he had gone at least three Different times elenni also had strong values which her parents instilled in her they taught her to trust people to love others not to mock anyone or be a bully and to see the glass of Life half full instead of half empty to respect those around her especially those who had less her mother said she would take a butt of food out of her own mouth and give it to someone else if they didn't

have any elenia also learned that not everyone would think and act like she Did and it was okay to be different and to respect other people's thoughts and to try to be friends with those who may not be aligned exactly with the way that she believed and I think all of those are very amazing qualities to have but on the other hand elenni was also aware that the world can be an ugly place and that not everyone has the best intentions alen's goal was to bridge the gap to to be The Peacemaker and eventually this

led to her dream of Becoming a diplomat to officially represent her country's interest in other nations and work to build strong relationships negotiate and promote understanding between different governments overseas she even traveled to Jordan with her father and worked there free of charge to teach Arabic she had really big goals but I'm sure you can imagine that that meant she would have to leave the comfort and safety of her small town elenni had never been Away from her family before being being close knit is a huge part of Greek culture and they placed great importance

on Traditions religious celebrations and Community Gatherings lenn's room still had her dolls and stuffed animals lying on the shelves of her bookshelf and there was just an air of Innocence about her even though she was old enough to be on her own after Lenny graduated high school she told her parents she wanted to experience more of what Greece had to Offer they weren't so keen on her plans and they tried to even convince her otherwise by warning her about the dangers of a big city but elenni was determined to live life on her own terms

so in 2015 she packed up all of her belongings and moved to the island of rhs to attend the University of the aan studying in the department of Mediterranean studies which their website explains stands out as the only Department of Mediterranean studies in Greece and one of the few in the world studies included the historical relationship between Greece and the Mediterranean area and the developments in the European Union and the International Community its focus was on archaeology Linguistics and international relations this was alen's first step to lending her dream job and she took her studies

very seriously her parents of course wanted to see her succeed so they agreed to pay for her Student housing which was located in the city center roads is absolutely breathtaking it's known for its beach resorts ancient ruins and old medieval streets among many other things just Google the area and you will see how extraordinary it really is the water is at least three different shades of blue and the buildings on top of the mountains with their unique architecture and the town bustling with people it was like night and day for someone like Alenny she had

to take a 14-hour road trip just to get there and then get on a boat to reach the island itself but roads has 10 times the population of alen's Hometown and that's when it's not Peak tourist season when that time rolls around every year in the summer the population is 100 times this city of vioo where everyone knew and loved her family here Alani was a stranger just like everybody else someone who Blended in among the pandemonium of people from All over the world all tightly squeezing in to this island it was an exciting time

for 18-year-old elenni there were so many new opportunities but the first was to explore walking through the streets felt like stepping back in time the paths were surrounded by ancient walls cobblestone and historical sites along with secret hidden Beach Coes which only the locals knew about elenni took many pictures showcasing the town that she would call her home for the Next four years sharing some of those pictures to Facebook usually not showing her face but instead her fashionable outfits against the beautiful backdrop of these gorgeous architecture or nature but it wasn't the old town which

appealed to alenny for her it was the modern side of the island Rose is filled with vibrant CA CAF restaurants and shops that cater to both locals and tourists it's one of those Picture Perfect places where you can sip on a Cocktail looking over the blue waterfronts while boats sway gently in the marinas and people gather to enjoy Mediterranean Cuisine the night life was also a highlight with bars and clubs offering good music dancing and fun well into the night the drinking age is 18 inre so lenni could enjoy all that the town had to

offer roads couldn't have been more different than vivu Modo which is one of the reasons elenni chose it she immediately knew she had made the Right choice in moving to the island it had the perfect balance of being laidback and then had plenty of things to do it didn't take her long to make new friends either and together they explored roads with alen's lovable personality her good moral compass and light-hearted and kind nature she made friends fast and had a lot of them it's also easy when you're in college because you meet people that are

close in age and also studying the exact same topics And soon elenie was going out all the time with a large group of girlfriends and for the first couple years her Focus was on spending time with friends and doing well in class by day she would go on school trips dressed up professionally and attend conferences but by night she would unwind dress to impress still wearing her black framed glasses so sort of retaining a touch of professionalism the typical college student just enjoying her time on her Own before she gets into her career and has

to buckle down and get more serious by the time she hit 20 she was ready to explore the more romantic side of the city so Eleni began going on dates and even though she wasn't necessarily looking to find the one she was open to love if it came along she was also focusing on her health getting in shape and even trading her bigger rounder glasses for smaller more Square frames to show off more of her beautiful face Sometimes even slipping them on the top of her head for pictures or not wearing them at all she

was a beautiful young woman with long dark brown hair and deep brown eyes and she stood out in a crowd because of her height she was close to 6 feet tall in this picture with two men from her school she's almost as tall as a taller one on the left and appears that alenny isn't even standing up straight she towered over most women and that alone can be quite striking like a Runway model is she would be noticed when she walked into a room but now I sadly have to take you back so when her

father and uncle are now in roads speaking with officials from the port authority and regard to alen's murder they're trying to come up with a timeline leading up to what happened to her her father lets them know they speak to her every day if not multiple times a day and she's very close to her mother they talk constantly Giannis also Explained that they visit elenni and Roads every summer they pay for all of her expenses and she gets extra money from her grandparents for getting good grades in school she had already already purchased plane tickets

and was supposed to be flying back home on December 11th to visit for the holidays but now that would not be happening Giannis lets the officials know that their family is very close and they didn't see anything peculiar leading up to what happened the Last time elen's father and mother spoke to her was the evening of Monday November 26th elenie was calling to check in with her mom who recently had a surgery on her leg she was worried about her she wanted to know how she was healing because the last time they spoke Cola had

told her she was in pain but she let eleny know she was okay there was no need to worry she said everything would be fine they had a normal conversation but then the next day on Tuesday November 27th elen's mom called her like she usually did and this time she doesn't get a response as a matter of fact the phone actually said subscriber unavailable you know when you sometimes get the message that either a person's out of the coverage zone or they phone can even be disconnected this was that robotic voice on the other end

just saying subscriber unavailable and Kola thought that that was a little bit odd she wasn't too worried about her 21-year-old daughter at this point she knows she's very busy she has a social life she's in college and she was expecting her to just call back and say that she was fine however when 24 hours went by and they still hadn't heard from her her mom started to panic this time the phone was going straight to voicemail and Kula is leaving a bunch of messages one after the other she's desperately trying to get in touch with

her daughter and she starts to get Really scared and that's when she goes to her husband and says Yannis we have to do something elenie calls me 10 times a day and now there's just nothing they were so far away from her they really felt like they had no control over this situation and even to find out what happened and why she's not answering so they asked one of their friends who lived in roads if he could go over to their daughter's apartment and knock on her door to find out what's going on he Does

and she doesn't answer that's when he takes it one step further and he goes down to the university office and that's when he finds out she hadn't been in class the last couple days and that's highly unusual for alenny the University was sort of like you know what don't worry about it if there's something bad that happened we would be the first to know so if you don't hear anything from us everything's okay she'll probably turn back up but this wasn't good enough For her parents and they decided to report her to the police department

in RADS as well as their local police department in Viv Modo I've already explained to you that that same night is the night they get the phone call with them having to identify her tattoo but now officers know she was alive on Monday the 26th so it seems like something could have happened to her on the 27th because she didn't reach out to her family by this time crime scene Investigators had already been to the area above the Cove where Lenny's body was found and they made some very significant discoveries along the cliffs side there

were items scattered throughout the rocks and brush leading over the side of that steep drop they found things like a sock a foam pad and some other things that were out of place it appeared as though somebody had dumped those items off the side of this cliff and it becomes very obvious at This point that alenny had also been dumped over the side of this Cliff which is about 32 ft High there's some kind of thin foam pad like I said right here and then there's also what looks like it could be a pillowcase of

some kind maybe it's even a sheet it's with pink accents for a moment I thought I even saw Lenny's black framed glasses between the foam pad and that pillowcase but it was actually my eyes just playing tricks on me when I zoomed in it was just seaweed At this point they haven't found anything belonging to alenny but these items were all collected for analysis it's December 1st alen's father is still with the Port Authority officers he has the opportunity to go to his daughter's apartment along with the forensic team and they actually take photographs but

they haven't conducted any kind of Investigation at her apartment before this point they're just going over to document everything the way it was when They walked in now I do have some of these photos and I thought that they were very interesting not only to Showcase what kind of person alenny was and what she cared about but what she was doing before she disappeared and was later found floating in that icy water it's a small studio apartment in the Town Center on one side was a bed and it was still made it has a bright

orange yellow and red bed sprad on it she also has a futon opened into the position of A couch with some blankets pillows and covers on top she has a tapestry nail to the wall above her bed she's also taken pictures in this area that I saw her post on Facebook on the other side of the room she has a vanity mirror with a dresser and as you can see if you're watching there are a lot of girly things here lotions perfumes spray bottles hair products brushes clothing lotion just the typical items that you would

see on a woman's dresser I also noticed little Butterflies stuck to the mirror and the word dream above her bed on the wall this just shows you parts of her personality she also has some scarves that were draped on her mirror as well as some necklaces hanging down further from her dresser there's a desk that contains a tiny desk lamp her books her laptop and the things she would need for college along with an ashtray and a halfs smoked cigarette there were two cookies on a plate and a couple drinking Glasses on the desk as

well it looks like she was just sitting there before she left even though the laptop is now closed in this photo apparently it had been open which made it seem as though maybe she had been corresponding with someone or doing schoolwork she had a tiny kitchenette and from the looks of it it's tidy but appears to have a dish and a glass with a spoon inside the sink if you put this all together it really looks like she finished dinner sat down At her laptop smoking a cigarette and having a couple cookies with a drink

and it's almost as though it looks like maybe something interrupted her because she was the type of person to clean up after herself everything else is pretty tidy even though of course we know she's a typical college student she's got a lot of shoes on the floor and some clothes hanging here and there and chairs but for the most part everything is pretty organized what really stood Out to her dad knowing what he knew about his own daughter there was a half eaten Apple still in her mini refrigerator and a half a stick a gum

on her counter this really looked like she was enjoying a regular week night in but something pulled her away but the biggest indication that she was kind of in the middle of her normal routine before something got in the way was her laundry she had a small balcony outside of her apartment where she would wash And dry her clothing she would use this red Basin which was sitting outside and you can still see her clothes are hanging there to dry her father said that some of the clothes were still inside the wash so to him

this meant she expected to come right back if she had willingly gone anywhere the fact that some of the clothes were hanging too dry and others were still being washed in the bucket meant to him that his daughter's intention was to continue With her chores so what happened the hardest part for alen's dad was knowing that he was looking at all of his precious daughter's possessions things that she collected and cherished clothes that still smelled like her and the last things she wore or touched he couldn't bear to leave them behind he wanted so badly

to collect everything and take it with him he wanted to collect her memories even her cigarette butt the Apple the gum and even strands of Hair that were near her sink he didn't want any more of her to be gone forever and I was tearing up reading this as a parent it is just horrible for anyone to have to go through elen's mother was in disbelief she was inconsolable she couldn't accept it and didn't understand why or how this could have happened we're going to come back to the way the scene looked after the investigation

gets underway and they really start to identify suspicious things or Interesting things in her apartment but as of now they're stumped as to where elenie went before she was killed but they're going to start talking to friends and people who knew her and were close to her and that is when one of her friends reveals that they were actually hanging out with Elena at her apartment the night of Tuesday November 27th from about 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. and as they were leaving she got on the phone with another friend I'm going to call her Nora

just for clarity Nora and elenie were very close they were like best friends and they were on the phone from about 9:30 p.m. for almost 2 hours till about 11:15 p.m. and this was something Nora said was completely normal for them they would just hang out together via phone do chores talk about their day their plans and speaking of plans Nora tells the investigators that while elenni was on the phone with her she was talking about a guy she met about a week Earlier named Alex elenni thought he was really cute he seemed sweet and

they'd been exchanging Facebook messages with one another he was going to be in town and kind of out of the blue asked theeni if she wanted to walk through the city center and grab a bite to eat there were a lot of cute restaurants in this area and although it was close to midnight and that seems a bit late many Greek restaurants stay open pretty late it's actually customary to eat dinner around 10: p.m. in many regions of Europe particularly in the southern countries like Spain Italy and Greece it's common for people to dine late

in the evening typically because it's pretty warm throughout the day which makes cooler evening hours more enjoyable for socializing and enjoying a meal elenie mentioned planning to meet Alex at a steakhouse nearby I looked and sure enough many restaurants were open until about 11:45 p.m. Nora says that while She was still on the phone there was a knock on elen's door and alenny told Nora that it must be Alex and they were going to leave to go eat then they hung up but she said that wasn't the last time she was in contact with elenni

about an hour or so later at exactly 1:07 a.m. she gets a text that says call me in an hour now most women know exactly what a text like this means it usually means hey I may or may not be having a good time right now but I'm Going to give myself a way out in case I want to leave early it was already 1:00 in the morning when Nora was getting this text and unfortunately she fell asleep so she never got a chance to call alenny in an hour and when she woke up the

next morning she realized that alen hadn't called her back so she figured that everything must must have been wonderful she had a great time with Alex since that was the last person alenny said she Was supposed to be with that night well now at this point the investigators decide to pull up any kind of CCTV footage from around her apartment that they could find she does live in a pretty busy area in the center of roads and luckily they end up being able to pick up the front section of where her apartment is and they're

scrubbing through the footage they finally stumble upon a person that look like a Lenny and she's with a guy it's a few minutes After midnight the timestamps on this video are actually incorrect it was not 2: a.m. it was more like 12:00 a.m. you can see alenny in a long sleeve white shirt coming out from her building and she is with who they presume is this Alex guy they Embrace and it appears as though he gives her a kiss on the head then they're walking side by side until they're out of frame the investigators backtrack

they go further back in the video and they see the guy coming up to Where alen's apartment is kind of wandering around like looking for maybe the correct building maybe he's calling her at this point to let her know that he's there and then she comes out to join him if you're watching what would you think at this point as an investigator to me they look friendly enough so it makes you wonder what happened next where did they go and how did alenny end up dead well from another vantage point they're able to see Vehicles

that are coming and going from this area and since it is late at night there wasn't as much traffic as usual so they take note of all the cars and their license play numbers as they looked up the owners of each car they ruled them out one by one by their aliis or the fact they did not fit this Alex person's description they weren't even sure if his name was really Alex at this point all they knew was that it was the guy she last was seen walking with and That's when they get a hit

on a white truck they see leaving that vicinity not too long after a Lenny was seen on that footage it's an older kind of worn out mini truck now these are not very popular here in the United States but it's important you know what this truck looks like for context they're kind of like a truck front and then they have more of a shallow bed in the back not like a pickup truck it's not deep I'm showing an example on the screen but There's only enough room for two people in the truck cab and this

particular truck had a cover on top of the back storage area the footage is poor as usual and they can't make out who was inside the front but they run the license plate and it comes up as belonging to a business that's owned by a well-known Greek family on the island with the last name korus the korus family was said to be wealthy connected and owned half of pfos which is an area Of Roads the family owned three or four Health shops a number of restaurants including a Chinese restaurant cafes and even a small hotel

so of course investigators are curious as to why someone driving this business truck would be picking up alenny but they had narrowed it down this had to be the vehicle that she left in as more CCTV footage is being turned over one gas station in the direction of the beach where Lenny's body was eventually found Shows the same white mini truck right outside of Roads heading towards the town of lindos at 12:35 a.m. so at that point in time alenny had been traveling for over 30 minutes with this person who picked her up once again

the footage is grainy you can't see inside the truck to know for sure that alen's even inside but the likelihood is high and this is the direction of PF Co where the korus family has property and family members who live there as a matter of fact one Of the korus family members was the one who used his binoculars to confirm what he saw that morning that they found alen's body on Shore so this starts to look very suspicious is this family somehow involved why was their truck being used why did one of their family members

locate the body investigators get in touch with the business owner Mr korus and it's almost like was expecting this call because he immediately lets them know that someone was borrowing the Company truck that night a 19-year-old guy named Alexander Luca now Mr korus made sure to point out that this guy was an Albanian he's an Albanian immigrant not a Greek and here is where the xenophobia and blatant discrimination comes in from the beginning of this investigation there's already a sense that the stranger someone not from Greece who doesn't belong there and is not one of

them has killed this young girl Miss Mr korus provides Investigators with Alex's address he lives in a kind of rundown area in roads close to the university where alenny goes to school with a confirmation of his name investigators cross check it against Elena's Facebook and sure enough they are friends on there I'm sure if you're like me or curious and you like to know what things and people look like I wondered what this Alex guy looked like because we heard alenny liked him he was cute he was sweet but the best Description I can give

you especially if you're only listening is he was the typical Abron model light skinned light eyes light brown hair toned muscular tan physique he love to show off especially his sixpack he posted a lot of selfies and photos of himself posing to accentuate his body he's a thirst trap so to speak as they say it definitely appeared he prioritized working out and partying the typical College age guy and at first Glance this guy does not really seem intimidating or evil not by looking at him you don't really think he could have carried out such a

horrific crime and I realize that I haven't even gotten into the details yet of what actually happened to alenny so I think this is a good time to pause this part of the investigation and tell you about her autopsy coroner Mr panotes kresos who himself was shocked by what he saw and described what was done to elenni as Extreme inhumane Behavior added that there was no trace of humanity in these actions and he revealed that Al although she had fallen from the rocks and sustained significant injuries because of that alen's body showed clear signs of

trauma which occurred before she fell I shouldn't even say fell but you'll hear what I mean these injuries included severe bruising and marks around her neck some indicated that she was manually strangled since there were Actually marks from fingertips on her neck there were also what's called cervical affusion present and this is a build of a fluid in the spinal cord and it was specifically Al in her neck region this is typical in strangulation cases she also sustained blunt force trauma to her head and her body she was hit over and over again again and

again and the injuries to her head were so severe that her skull had fractured and she had a brain hemorrhage there were Slashes and stab wounds to her neck and the top of her left ear was cut off if all that wasn't shocking enough one of the most shocking aspects of her death was actually the cause the report revealed that even though she could have died from her injuries that she sustained from the stab wounds and the head injuries and the brain bleed alenny had water in her lungs this meant that she had been alive

when she was thrown off of the cliff in her final moments She had been paralyzed and unable to move and save herself in the end she drowned in the shallow Waters all alone in pain as each one of those waves crashed over her her and that to me is so unbelievably horrendous and disgusting the medical examiner also estimated that alen's time of death was somewhere between 8:00 p.m. on November 27th and 6:00 a.m. on November 28th but we know that she was still alive at midnight on The 28th so that means within 6 hours after

she left her apartment with Alex she had been murdered but at this point there's no way for them to know how long she would have been sitting in that water just suffering before she took her final breath the fact that her body had been in the water for as long as it was meant it was hard for them to determine if she had been forced into a sex act but the fact that she was unclothed except for her bra led the medical Examiner and the detectives to believe that this entire murder was sexually motivated 19-year-old

Alex was apprehended at his apartment and he was then detained and they began questioning him about his involvement in elen's Murder at first of course he said he had nothing to do with it that he liked alenny he was excited for their dayses and he would never hurt her he has no idea what happened after the time they were together but admits he did pick her Up and they went out to eat he was like look you can look at her Facebook messages she wanted to hang out with me I don't know what happened and

it was true they had exchanged a number of messages over the course of About a Week in those early messages Alex talked about his interest and how he spent a lot of time volunteering for various Charities on the island and he also complimented elen's appearance he told her she was beautiful and exotic in Those messages he came across as an all- round good guy elenie was immediately attracted to Alex he seemed kind he was charitable and clearly he took care of himself his Facebook profile had pictures of him running at marathons working out and having

fun elenie and Alexander kept in touch for the next few days via messenger elenie talked about school and how she wanted to travel in the future and Alex even said that he wanted to join her a week after that First message they agreed to take their connection off offline and meet in real life all in all it seemed like a typical conversation between two consenting young adults excited to get to know each other better but investigators know there's no footage of alenny coming back to her apartment so they know that Alex must be lying about

not knowing what happened and it takes a while to subpoena things like Social Media Records phone records and obtain even More CCTV footage throughout the city to gather more evidence and at the cliff side all of which the authorities were already trying to do so they were really hoping that if they came down really hard on Alex he would break and especially when we're talking about a foreigner an Albanian over there in Greece they're not very kind to people that are not from Greece so they were going to come down hard on him no matter

what and sure enough he breaks but still He doesn't admit any wrongdoing but instead he actually reveals that the real killer was his 21-year-old friend manolas kakaris that he met at the gym a few months before this and if that name sounds familiar I've already told you about the korus family the wealthy powerful well-known Greek family who practically owned half the island yeah well this is one of Mr Coor's Sons Alex version of the events that unfolded that night are horrifying he starts by saying That his intention was to grab some food nearby alen's apartment

and then she was just supposed to go back home but they walked around for a little bit and by the time they got to the steakhouse it was closing that's when he said he suggested to alenny that she come back to his friend's vacation home where he was staying and they could grab some food on the way at a fast food place and they could eat on the rooftop they could drink hang out together and then maybe Even take a walk on the beach alenny agreed and they drove to monus's family beach house in lindos

where manolis and Alex were staying now this account adds up so far with the CCTV footage they have the footage from the apartment with Alex and then they also have the footage of the leaving the apartment and then showing back up near a gas station right near lindos Alex explained that once they got to manolo's family's beach house he and elenie were in the kitchen Grabbing drinks they had vodka and mixers then they went to the living room to eat afterward he and alenny were just hanging out they were on the rooftop they began kissing

and this is when he claimed manolis walked up to them and saw them making out so Alex decided to take alenny somewhere more private into to one of the bedrooms where they continued to kiss and eventually he said he was lifting elenni onto the bed and they were starting to get a little more Intimate when all of a sudden a drunken manolis stormed into the bedroom unclothed from the waist down and clearly ready for action use your imagination or don't because this is just disgusting that's when Alex claims that Manola said to aleni something to

the effect of this is my house he brought you here and I get to F you of course he used the real f word well alenny was not okay with this and she began to try to leave at which point Manola stands in her way and said if I don't get to F you then you're not leaving the words were way worse it was something like if you don't sit on my bleep then you can't leave Alex explained that he was very intoxicated and he can't recall the details perfectly but elenni wasn't going to give

in Alex said she tried to get away and manolis pushed her onto the bed and then he got on top of her and he punched her in the face Alex was shocked and Scared and at this point elenni is disoriented from the strike and she calls out for help but Alex admitted he didn't intervene at this point he said that manolis was so angry he was scared of him and he told alenny something like now you'll see what happens since she was resisting he went into the kitchen and he came back with a knife and

he waved it in alen's face all the while he's trying to take off her clothes and he's trying to force himself on her her As he continued doing this and threatening her alenny was screaming for help when manolas then grabbed her by the neck and slammed her head against one of the walls Alex said he yelled for him to stop and that's when manolas grabbed an electric iron coming after alenny again at that point Alex said he pushed manolas and manolas swung the iron at Alex but it grazed him and struck aleni in the head

manolis raised the iron again and swung it at her head Once more and that's when she fell to the floor and stopped moving manolis told Alex that he took a nitrate supplement when he was working out and that made him go into a frenzy I had to look this up I wasn't sure what it was it is a strength and energy booster and remember monus's family owns Health shops that would certainly carry a product like this Alex said that elenni was bleeding from her nose and her Temple and he was in total Shock at what

his friend just did he then told manolas not to hurt him and then he ran and picked up alenny he brought her into the bathroom to clean her up and at this point she was regaining Consciousness Alex said she asked him to look at her face in the mirror but he didn't want her to see herself so he didn't let her he then placed her in the shower to rinse her off and afterward he gave her a sheet to cover herself because his intention was To take her to the hospital and he didn't want her

to be cold he took her back to the main living area and when she saw manolis she told him she was going to call the police well this enrage manolis Alex said manolis threatened to hurt him if he didn't help him hold alenny down Alex said he wanted to get her to the truck to get her help but Manola seemed to agree at that point and They carried her to the mini truck they got her into the passenger seat With manolis driving and Alex squeezing in next to her Alex noticed that they were not going

in the direction of town that they weren't going to the hospital and instead he said manolas told him let's just finish this he drove 7 minutes away and stopped at the top of a cliff then he grabbed alenny from the truck tossed her over his shoulder and she was barely conscious but her last words according to Alex was that her father would find them and that is so Heartbreaking they knew that she was alive when she was thrown off the edge of that Cliff Alex said after manolas was finished dropping alen's body which he claimed

manolas threw on the ground and then kicked over the edge he came back and said to Alex I got rid of her because she would have put me in jail he said well Albanian it's over let's go Alex said the manolis threatened to kill him and his family if he didn't help him clean up the evidence so they drove back To the house and they cleaned up and then they returned to the cliff and threw all the evidence off the side alen's clothing her purse and the Bloody clothes wow I mean all of this sounds

horrible but plausible the investigators were able to obtain security footage from a camera on a house in the area of the beach and sure enough it captured the white truck at 2:26 a.m. driving in the direction of that Cliffs side and it returned to the Area of the beach house around 2:42 so this means it only took them 16 minutes to discard of her body a human being that was still alive and then 45 minutes later the white truck is seen again on the same footage and this time they were discarding all of the evidence

Alex even agreed to show the investigators where they dumped all these items they were then able to collect alen's personal belongings they retrieved her black purse which you can Actually see her wearing in the CCTV footage of her coming out of the apartment now it was wet and full of sand there was the key to her apartment on a key ring a torn cardigan women's underwear torn on one side a woman's shirt a broken electric iron a Lenny School identification card a couple dirty sponges a pair of men's underwear a pair of sports shoes and

a kitchen knife I've been showing a few of these pictures on the screen they were found In a different area than where the investigators had found the other items on the cliff side and these items didn't make it into the water because the cliff wasn't just vertical there were additional Ledges and brush and rocks that kept the items from falling down but it was dark when these guys were there so they probably didn't know that Alex seemed to be cooperative so now it was monus's turn the investigators wanted to speak with him and they also

Wanted to search the vacation home where Alex claimed the attack took place I want to start there Alex LED investigators to the korus beach house I'm not sure if they needed search warrants in Greece because it seems like they go right in these places but Alex said the two of them cleaned up well it truly looked like they never cleaned a day in their life and maybe they hadn't because this place was a mess and it was obvious a violent struggle had happened There they found blood all over the hallway in the kitchen on the

ceiling the walls the staircase the bathroom more blood was found on the tile of the base of the bathtub on the shower curtain on the wall and a lot of the blood was smeared as though they tried to clean it and there were even smears across the kitchen ceiling they attempted to remove that as well unsuccessfully in the kitchen you can see Cleaning Supplies on the counter a Bleach bottle several washcloths near the sink on the kitchen table sat three yellow coffee cups one was almost full of a clear liquid a vodka bottle with maybe

3/4 of vodka still left in it a pill bottle a lighter an energy drink another couple taller coffee mugs among a bunch of other items and then in that same room there were two dirty twin-sized mattresses on the floor in front of a TV there were no pillows on these mattresses and hardly any blankets Except for one dirty white one and a dirty pillowcase a pair of sandals sat at the end of the mattress closest to the wall you may or may not already get a sense that these mattresses were not set up for sleeping

they were strategically placed in front of this TV for a reason that I will get to soon but you may be able to guess there was a very obvious blood smears in the bathroom wall as well as a dirty mop in a bucket next to the toilet it's almost As though they never thought that anyone would even come in here because they hardly tried to cover up this crime at all and it's probably because they thought that alen's body would make it out to the Sea by the strong current and winds never to be found

the forensic team collected everything of Interest including two sponges two towels a back of tobacco another kitchen knife which was bent two open condoms one which appeared to be more used than the other And most of all the base to an iron which was missing the iron was already found at the side of the cliff so they're putting it all together and this is pretty obvious elenni was armed here and now they go to speak to manolas and get his version of the events that unfolded that night and it was very different from what Alex

said of course it was first of all the fact that manolis was Greek and Alex was an immigrant from Albania seemed to be the CR talk of his reasoning as to why he was of course innocent it was all this terrible unhinged person from another country who he claimed he hardly knew and only met 6 months before this at a kickboxing class that killed alenny he claimed he'd only hung out with Alex a few times couple times to get coffee and a few times with some girls but Manola says I have a girlfriend her name

is Ornella we were together for 6 months and you can check with her she have only Good things to say about me Manola said before that he dated another girl named Annabella who had gone off to England and he had no trouble getting women this was of course to prove that he wouldn't have tried forcing alenn into a sex act claiming why would he need to he was rich goodlooking a nice body beach house to take girls women were always wanting to be with him according to him instead he claimed it was Alex Alex was

poor he Couldn't get women he didn't drive nice cars he didn't have nice things Manola said he just had him around basically to be his assistant which is what Alex's purpose was according to manolis on the night in question he claimed he was the one who knew alenny he had invited elenni to come to his beach house and that Alex was merely his designated driver he instructed him to drive to alen's apartment and fetch her and that he was there he was in the back of the Truck now wait a minute I was a little

perplexed by this where and I've actually read articles that mention this like he was in the back he was in the back seat first of all no back seat okay no back seat and then you mean to tell me that this not so small dude is inside the shallow bed in back where there's a cover that is clearly seen completely down in the video clip of the truck leaving roads and in the other clip of it coming up to Lindos at the gas station so of course when he's questioned about this he changes his story

and he says oh no no wait I was actually inside the front with Alex and elenni and I found that to be laughable but I mean it could be true who knows manolis claimed that at first elenni was kind of like e why is this other guy here speaking of Alex and that's when manolis explained oh he's just my driver but we already know that alenny never mentioned manolis to her Friend only Alex and the messages between them really were about them agreeing to meet that night and talking for a week but claimed he'd already

been dating alenny for a while seems to be a lie right away it doesn't make sense but he continued he said they stopped at a kebab shop on the way to his beach house and he made Alex get out to go get them but unfortunately they weren't open and that's convenient because if they found CCTV footage and they saw Alex walk up Then it would look like the story is true but monus's version is that the three of them arrive at 10 p.m. we already know that's incorrect it was not 10: p.m. it was past

12:30 he said that as soon as they got in he poured him and alenny some vodka and that Alex wasn't drinking manolis claimed he took aleni to one of his bedrooms and they had intercourse when they were finished he left the room to pour two more cups of vodka and that's when he heard something Happening elenni was talking to Alex she said something to insult his manhood and Manola said he saw Alex get up and punch her in the face Manola said he didn't intervene because according to him him he was in a panic he

was afraid of Alex he said Alex punched her in the jaw and then she fell to the ground and fainted then Alex put her in a headlock and she went unconscious and that's when he says Alex hit her on the head in a way that could have killed her he was shocked and He was frozen in fear so he did nothing to stop it and then when Alex grabbed the iron Manola said he couldn't watch he went into another room not wanting to see what Alex was going to do he claims he never actually saw

him hit her with it but he heard lenni screaming for help but all manolas could do was sit there and pull out his hair in Devastation that's quite the story and it's not over yet he continued saying that he didn't call for help because he was trembling With fear and then he saw Alex go to the kitchen and grab a knife with a plastic handle and he said that she was going to pay for this dearly that's a translation all of this is by the way but I think you get the idea Manola said he

never stopped Alex because he was too much in shock but he did see him stab alenny in the neck he was telling Alex to stop since she was already unconscious but instead Alex yelled to him that he actually Needed another knife and I'm assuming since that one had bent remember we saw it in the evidence photo then Manola said that Alex took elenni to the bathroom hit her head on the sink and yelled I will cut your neck then he threw her in the bathtub removed all of her clothes and he poured cold water on

her manolis claimed he kept telling him don't do this but he just sat there looking at all the blood it was everywhere on the walls left and right On the ceiling on the bed and then he watched as Alex wrapped Del Lenny and bed sheets and carried her out of the house he has no idea where they went because he stayed behind he said that his grandmother was staying on the floor below them and that she will tell them that they were smiling and having a good time with the girl he never hurt her it

was all Alex wow what would you have believed as an investigator regardless both men are arrested because according To them both of them are involved and until it can be proven which version is true they had to detain them both and on December 5th it's announced that the authorities have two men in custody for Lenny's murder and this starts a media storm there were so many accusations being made mostly that it couldn't be the Greek boy it must be the Albanian that's the whole stranger danger xenophobia part of this case so many were quick to

judge the so-called Outsider the local news was very quick to make it seem like manolis the Greek was an unwilling participant who was influenced by the violent and dangerous Foreigner and monus's family was also going with this narrative and they quickly obtained an attorney for their 21-year-old son Alex was also represented and both of the men claimed they were not guilty of their arraignment just Days Later pinning the crime on one another they were jailed to Together at first in the same cell just waiting for the next part of this case to happen but they

refused to speak to one another Alex was vocal about how he felt about Manola telling the media all the things that they did he said I don't care what the Greek says I have a lawyer which insinuated he was telling the truth and that his lawyer would uncover that in the beginning when Alex gave the authorities manolas his name they actually did go to his house and whoever Answered the door told them he's not here he's working at his father's carpentry shop so they went there and they started speaking with his mother but she stopped

talking to them as soon as manolo's father arrived and then none of them wanted to cooperate but they did end up putting enough pressure on them to reveal where manolis was this family had so much money and influence that manolas didn't have to play by the same roles that everyone else did he was used To getting his way and when he didn't he would simply throw money at the problem until he did when they ran a background check on him they found out that he had previous charges for theft and for physical violence none of

his crimes have resulted in anything more than a fine which his family were more than happy to pay for to make it disappear and to contradict men's story Alex claimed that elenni had no idea who manolis even was and that when they Arrived at the beach house all manolas did was brag about himself to alenny talking about how rich he was that that truck she came in didn't even belong to Alex it was his he told about the house his family owned which included a property that looked over the water and PF key but then

in turn to the investigators and the media Manola had other things to say other really messed up statements including one where he claimed that when Alex tried to stab Alenny it wasn't working and it wasn't killing her because and I hate to even repeat this but I will because it's just the truth he said it was because she was too fat wow and she was not fat that really bothered me like why would you even say that about someone who is now deceased later that day after the arrests a large crowd gathered at FIA Beach

where alen's body had been found and they lit candles in her memory they set those candles out on Shore and they Said prayers for her and that Justice would be done it was impossible to know which version of these stories was the truth but the investigators know that either way alenny texted her friend at 1:07 a.m. to say call her in an hour because something felt off it must have that would have been close to when she arrived at the beach house so maybe as soon as she realized there were two men there that night

she panicked and there's a reason why because something Terrible had happened to elenni just one year before her murder while this investigation is going on friends of hers are coming forward with some shocking allegations ones that would cause even more of an uproar in the media and a media circus it would lead to the biggest protest for women's rights the town had ever seen alen's friends explained that one night back in November of 2017 alenn was out at a nightclub with friends when she began Talking to a guy and they were hitting it off he

invited her to come hang out at his place nearby and she agreed when she arrived there were two other guys at this apartment and at first everything was okay they were drinking together they were hanging out but soon elenni began to feel sick it turned out that someone had slipped something into her drink and soon she was completely out of it she could vaguely remember being V vide taped while these three men forced Her to carry out unspeakable acts on them she was helpless as they took turns violating her and she was lucky to make

it out alive because of how violent they were treating her the next day when she was back at her apartment and finally feeling better she was mentally broken she didn't know what to do but she couldn't keep what happened to herself so she confided in her cloes friends and they encouraged her to go to the police and report it but just before she did One of the the perpetrators messaged her on Facebook and told her that everything was recorded on a video and if she went to the authorities they would release it publicly and essentially

everyone would call her terrible names no one would ever want to be with her because she was a loose woman they said it another words they were blackmailing her her dignity in exchange for her silence which one is she going to choose elenie could have stayed silent but she decided that it Wasn't a deal she was willing to make if she gave those men the power to hold that video over her she would never be free from them it was around the same time in Greece that Force intercourse was finally being recognized as a real

crime with consequences I know and the law still didn't consider whether it was consensual or not and what I mean by this is that forc intercourse occurred as far as they were concerned when someone was coerced by you know physical Violence or a threat of immediate danger whether or not they consented didn't matter even if they were saying no it didn't matter but if they weren't harmed into it it wasn't considered a crime the law didn't recognize married men who forced their wives in Intercourse either that wasn't a crime and what was worse is if

the unmarried perpetrator agreed to marry their victim they wouldn't be punished for their crime what I was thinking in what world does that even Make sense you get violated and then you would even think about marrying the person who did it to you so they won't get charged with a crime so backwards I don't get it but it was actually a step from where where Greece was prior to 2017 so alenny thinking that she would be helped by the law and the authorities she bravely went to the police department in roads and she told them

what happened that must have been so difficult to do this fact alone gives You insight into the kind of person elenni was even though her attackers might release the video of her she had a strong sense of what was right and wrong and she wanted to protect other women elenni gave the police the name of the guy she had met that night and everything she could possibly remember about the two other men explaining that she was told that everything had been recorded and they were threatening to release the footage but instead of the Police taking

action they told alenny to let it go they said it wasn't worth their effort to investigate it since a week had already gone by that's right she can't possibly re reporting something that happened so long ago really so a woman's body can be completely violated and if just a week goes by that's too bad bad I don't think so it's like they were referring to food that had an expiration date this is a person's body it's a person's dignity That was stolen from them a young person who's coming there for help and the videotape well

when she mentioned it the cops wanted to see it to believe it wow and they added that if the men had recorded it then she had to have done something to make them think she wanted to have relations with them in other words it it was Al lenn's fault that she had been treated the way she was by these men essentially she was a tease that she was asking for it by going home With this guy to begin with the authorities completely dismissed alen's report they didn't even take a statement in the incident book which

is required for any complaint regardless of whether it leads to an investigation or not it was as though they were telling elenni that what happened to her didn't matter that her pain and her trauma were insignificant and it didn't deserve to be acknowledged like it never even happened in the first place Greece is a Profoundly patriarchal society where men hold the majority of the power dating back to ancient Greece as far back as the Bronze Age and the dawn of the Greek mythology in about 3,000 to 1100 BC with men being at the top of

the social hierarchy and violence against women was normalized as a way to maintain male control we can see this just by looking at Greek art most of which I can't even show here on YouTube but it glamorized and normalized Men forcing themselves on Women and promoting the rward culture patriarchy in Greek imposes gender roles that dictate how women should act how they should speak where they should go who they should go with the word itself patriarchy comes from the Greek language which means the rule of the father and it implies men make the rules This

is highly ingrained into the minds of the Greek people and unfortunately it is a very hard mindset to break and some may argue that men don't want to change Things alen's experience with was horrific and the way the officials responded to her pain was equally appalling but tragically this was just the beginning of alen's mistreatment but in that moment she felt like she had to deal with her trauma on her own she became withdrawn and quiet and the bright spark that she had that once defined her seemed to fade she felt an overwhelming sense of

Shame and guilt about what happened so much so she Couldn't bring herself to tell her parents she knew that if she did it would confirm their worst fears about the dangers of living away from home in a big city and they would insist that she came back but Alena didn't want to leave rhs she wanted to continue her studies and regain control of her life so she chose to suffer in silence keeping her pain hidden from those who loved her the most thankfully elenni had a very strong and supportive group of Friends and they did

their best to be there for her and slowly with time there were signs that she might be finding her way back to herself she began to go out more and there was hope that even eventually she could heal and move forward and it was in November of 2018 exactly one year later when she finally felt she was ready to move forward and start dating again what terrible irony that her first date was with the devil but neither of these men Alex nor Manolis looked like Monsters they usually don't if they did no woman would be

tricked into trusting them instead they looked like the boy next door presenting themselves as kind charismatic good guys so the fact that this had happened to her meant that if she did notice that it wasn't just Alex there at that house that night she would have been on guard right away and as the investigation progressed it was uncovered that the three men who Violated alenny in 2007 were a 19-year-old a 22-year-old and a 23-year-old and their names were never released to the media but they actually knew manolis and Alex and not only that one of

the men was friends with manolis and this caused investigators to wonder if manolis and Alex were aware of what these men had done to elenni and if they knew about that video and possibly even watched it because this connection did not seem like a coincidence how did Alex Begin messaging alenny to begin with they thought it was highly unlikely he just searched aimlessly on Facebook instead it appeared almost planned if Alex Olas knew that these three men had been able to force her before maybe they imagined they could do the same one of the men

actually lived right on the same street that Alex lived on it wasn't a big area at all and the apartment she was taken to that night in 2017 was right next to where Alex lived that is Very suspicious at this point the media has come out with this story and women are Marching In the Streets they're holding up signs that say things like they're killing us showing that femicide is real and should be recognized we still have issues here in America of domestic killings and even femicides where we as women are hunted violated and killed

just for being women and discarded after being used for men's pleasure there was so much publicity About this case many people in power wanted the noise to stop before more information was uncovered corruption was rampant there were people high up that were trying to get the lead investigator officer zovas pulled from this case after he was threatened to drop it and he refused they thought that he was doing too much in their perspective but luckily this man couldn't be bribed then Greek prosecutor aristia donga entered the case she was determined to get Justice for elenni

and her family and the fact that the prosecutor was a woman made a huge difference Just One Look at what happened on alen's own Facebook profile following the news shows how backward some people's thinking is about women who are victims of sexual violence coincidentally on November 24th just days before she was killed alenia changed her cover photo to a picture of a storefront with a sign on the door that read if you're a racist sexist Homophobic or an a-hole don't come in now who knows why she posted this at the time but there were some

nasty comments from people after she was killed who claimed that she brought this upon herself one person was calling her an immigrant Outsider even though we know she's from Greece but for whatever reason he claims she was from Syria and on the picture of her commenting about how much she loved living in roads this nasty person said it was a journey with No return for her and then he put Emojis with laughing faces while the public came to her rescue they acted like their own detectives trying to track down who this person was that was

hiding behind a Facebook profile it even made it into the news one article said that these commenters were saying such nasty things they were so bad it would make Hitler blush now I don't know about that but I did try to translate some of them and I don't know if it's translating exactly Because the first comment says go feed the worms you filthy scrotum but clearly it's meant to insult alenny who is now deceased by saying that she's food for the bugs in her grave and that's messed up others said that's what you get for

hanging out with an Albanian so much victim blaming even comments that asked why she went out with two guys to begin with that she must have wanted them people came to her defense and they even reported the users to the Cyber crimes Division this opened up arguments about why the authorities hadn't looked into Alex and mans's phones and their Facebook accounts but they were trying at this point both of the phones were now missing and they never found alen's phone so it proved to be very challenging I noticed that even back in 2015 alenny was

skeptical about people and this was before her attack by those three guys she wrote a note on her phone and posted it to Facebook book it said Translated quote count people in the end at the beginning everyone seems good end quote she actually composed that note back on August 22nd of 2015 but posted it to her Facebook April 13th of 2016 it's basically saying that everyone puts on a front when you first meet them and you have to wait to see their true colors It's just sad that elenie didn't have time to tell who her

killer or Killers truly were investigators were getting a clear picture though even Though he had been clouded by monus's family's influence it was so strong they painted him as the victim his family commissioned articles news stories and all kinds of positive PR to present him as the unwilling participant in alen's Murder they made him out to be devastated by what happened in Greece albanians are often viewed with deep suspicion and Prejudice manolas knew this all too well and even though he had once called Alexander his best friend he Was more than happy happy to use

his friend's foreign status to get him off the hook now that's not to say that Alex didn't deserve the criticism I'll get to him in a moment he was by no means a good guy but he wasn't a worse guy or a more responsible guy just because he was Albanian in the media at least Alex took the full force of the blame whereas manolis was portrayed as naive and innocent the local who got caught up in something terrible but he was a good guy From a good family and he should be viewed more positively than

Alex whose mother was just a maid and father just a construction worker Alex had no college education and only cared about his looks according to all these articles but investigators uncovered so much more about manolis people were coming forward gladly they had known him since childhood and they said he was always a troubled kid even as a child in elementary school his parents who we Know have a lot of money enrolled him in the best private schools in RADS but at the age of 10 he beat a child in school so badly instead of him

getting in trouble the management just changed him to a new class but things only got worse from there manolas grabbed a pair of scissors threatening a child and they eventually cutting off their hair at that point the school kicked him out so his parents they tried to enroll him in a second private school on the island But luckily the school rejected him because of his background over the years there were many fights that broke out between manolas and other kids and each time his parents would just conclude it wasn't their child's fault always making excuses

for him and just moving him to a new school seven different schools every time mans's father would claim his son was being targeted because of who he was almost as though he was saying that the kids were just jealous of him when he Graduated high school but didn't hold down a job his parents actually let him work at their businesses but he hardly worked and yet yet he still got paid he would ride around town on tricked out motorcycles and bully people who he looked down on always showing off his muscles his parents allowed him

to have the equivalent of $500 every 2 weeks and this wasn't a new thing he would show up with a lot of money at his high school and he would just defiantly be like Flaunting in front of the teachers and students it was clear that manolis believed because he had money he was better than other people back in 2014 manolas was once again expelled from school because of a fight that he got in with another student he was fighting him with his fist but also with a night stick or a baton this time the police

were called and one of the professors who witnessed the fight spoke to the media and the police well monus's father Tracked the professor down he cursed at him threatened him that if the professor spoke to anyone about what happened again he would see what would happen to him so perhaps violence runs in the family then investigators pulled up a case that just happened in June of 2018 18 only 5 months prior to elani's murder a world champion jiu-jitsu fighter sued manolis and his family for injuries that he sustained when manolis was doing tricks on his

motorcycle and collided With the professional athletes vehicle headon when his bike went into oncoming traffic the 29-year-old jiu-jitsu fighter could no longer compete because of his injuries and he took legal action against The Reckless 21-year-old yikes so this dude was bad news but as I mentioned Alex was too his facade began to crack as well when a 19-year-old special needs student came forward to the police with her father this changed the investigator's perspective on Alex And his story the media actually never released her name so for clarity I'm going to call the 19-year-old girl Emma

and in reports she was described as being 67% intellectually affected and I'm not sure what all that entails but she did attend a special needs School Emma told the investigators that who she knows as 19-year-old Alex would come up and hang out in front of her Special Needs school with other guys and they would try to talk to the girls there That made me sick to my stomach he was targeting these vulnerable members of society that's sickening she said she wasn't friends with any of the guys but she was acquaintances with them she would talk

to them here and there and then on December 1st so just 3 days after alen's murder Emma was approached by Alex and another 24-year-old guy they convinced her to give them her phone number and later that evening they called her and they invited her to come Take a drive with them and listen to some music together after agreeing they picked her up in a vehicle that Alex was driving and they began driving to a remote area at the tip of roads where there was an aquarium now I looked this up on the map and I'm

sure by night this area looks very different by day there's a beach with a lot of people hanging out but at night I would imagine this being very desolate she said the three of them started walking to where the bathrooms Are located and once once they were in a hidden place they began to force themselves on her making her have intercourse with them as well as other indecent acts she couldn't fight against them she wasn't strong enough and Alex even slapped her across the face but at one point she began to scream and fight harder

and for a moment they reduced the resistance and she was able to make her Escape but this poor teen she faced post-traumatic shock and she even met With a psychiatrist who reported that the girl's Behavior had changed after what these men had done to her and unfortunately the girl did not have the courage to report this incident immediately what prompted her to do so was the fact that Alex's picture showed up in the media in relation to alen's murder and she knew that she had to come forward after this arrest warrants were issued against both

a 24-year-old man that was not in custody yet and charges Were added to Alex's record when confronted with this new evidence Alex cried and he said that it was unfair instead of taking ownership he claimed that who we are calling Emma was dating the 24-year-old friend of his and she mentioned that she was attracted to Alex so they planned a three-way together and it was 100% consented to the investigators wanted to know how he could possibly be turned on enough merely 3 days after what he claimed to Witness Manola due to alenny to want to

be involved in this act with Emma consensually or not and I thought that was a great question I mean wow if if he was truly affected by what he saw by what manolis did to aleni why would he want to try to engage in something so similar to stays afterward he was a predator that's clear Alex maintained his innocence though saying that he tried to help olenie and that after what happened to her he never even went out Of his apartment he's like I didn't go out at all Alex claimed that Emma was lying all

she wanted was money that's why she was making up the story so that the media would get onto it so that she could sue him for money and get financial gain he explained that Emma's family was poor and that they probably convinced her to come forward and make up lies Alex added that he knows what's going on behind the scenes that he's being discriminated against and he even Said he was afraid for his life he was already being bullied in jail and now with this news coming out he's going to be in for it and

he was right about that once Alex was jailed and he was moved to a different cell than manolis he was in serious danger for his own life Greek police police prison guards and inmates are known for not being very kind to foreign prisoners it wasn't looking good for Alex or manolis but that wasn't all another woman came forward I'm going to Call her Kia and this time she claimed that Alex and manolas worked as a team to attempt to violate her this time it was one week before alen's murder Kaa said that both men reach

out to her on Facebook Messenger at random first it was manolis they exchanged a few messages and he asked her to to meet him in person but she refused later she was then contacted by Alex now he caught her eye so they began chatting and soon he suggested coming out to a campsite for a Party and at the time Kia said that Alex didn't appear to be dangerous she said quote he seemed like an okay person to me end quote but on the night she was supposed to go with Alex he explained he was coming

with a friend of his but thought his friend would be driving his own car either way it didn't matter because katu's phone died before she could actually meet up with them thankfully she added that at the time it didn't seem strange at all that Alex was Going to pick her up with a friend until a friend of her saw the news on TV and called her to let her know the guy she was planning to go on a date with and the one she refused to talk to on Facebook were both arrested she was shocked

she started thinking about the fact that she could have died that night so she came forward it was now clear to investigators that manolas and Alex had been running a scheme where Alex was the bait he was the objectively more Good-looking of the two men and manolis would bribe him with money and nice things to do his bidding but of course we find out that Alex began doing the same on his own with other friends of his probably after knowing it worked a number of times so now neither one of their stories made sense it

seemed like they were both involved and purposely pinning it on one another knowing everything we know including how Lenny had already been through everything Shad In 2017 I highly doubt if both of these men would have come to pick her up that night in that truck that she would have gotten in especially in such Close Quarters and we know from the video that no one was in the back bed part so it truly appears like times before that Alex used his good looks and his fake charm to convince elenni to come back with him to

the beach house whether or not he said that it was his or his friends who knows we don't know for sure If she even knew how far she was going to be driven that night because just after she arrived she sent her friend that message that's when she probably realized she and Alex weren't alone but perhaps At first she still wanted to give Alex a chance despite what happened to her a year before I mean what are the chances that would have happened again but when you're living in a place like this maybe those chances

are high and that makes me sad these men plan this It's true that this area of the beach was so isolated only local would have known where it was so that would indicate the manolas was the one who threw aleni from the cliff however the medical examiner mentioned that alenny almost 6 ft tall and 154 lb Plus in a semiconscious state it would have not been easy to move her they had to bring her down a flight of stairs into this truck off of a cliff and that it was not going to be easy for

just one person in His expert opinion he believed that the two men needed to carry her soon after this news came out Alex was being taken to a hospital he had been attacked by seven other inmates he claimed they came screaming at him for being a killer and the RW but he kept denying it and saying he didn't do it but they took off his pants and his underwear and the Gang forced him into intercourse yeah and it was proven to be true by a video of the incident that Surfac online and I watched it

definitely not going to be showing that here but I will show you a still screenshot of Alex cornered on a cot in his cell clearly at the mercy of shirtless inmates who are kicking him and taking off his clothes as he tried to defend himself the forensic physician concluded that the wounds he sustained and where they were down below he was in fact forced into what he claimed and I don't know what to say about that one of The inmates that was involved was later questioned about it and he said that Alex got the minimum

of what he deserved that apparently they had knives ready to use on him saying that what he did by not protecting a woman a Greek woman and letting her trust him only to be killed at either his hands or even his Greek friend's hands was not acceptable so they took off his clothes and they did what they had to do to humiliate him for doing the same to aleni this inmate Added that he should have been paraded naked around the entire prison but he deserved much worse and by the way in Greece the media cannot

release pictures of the accused faces so any time an article or a video was posted their faces were always blurred out but the victims was not and I've seen this before in cases I've done internationally and I honestly think that they should show their face but I guess innocent until proven guilty and They don't want to like Mar them because maybe if they're not guilty they have to live with the fact that they were plastered all over but Alex was then transferred to a new prison after this attack and in the weeks after lenn's murder

Greek police formed a special department for cases of domestic killings days after the department was set up citizens protection Minister made a statement saying quote violence against women can happen to any family And any woman silence is tolerance and tolerance feeds violence victims are not to blame for the silence we are going to give them their voice back end quote feminist activists were not backing down they were following this case very closely making sure the investigation was progressing and constantly rallying loudly to put pressure on the authorities to bring alen's Killers to Justice which is

one of the biggest reasons this case didn't end up like so Many that came before and also it was just by chance that the prosecutor was a woman who actually took the time to look into the evidence critically and was in support of females rights it was clear that neither of these men's statements added up to the story that the evidence was telling if either one of them wanted to they could have stopped what was happening to elenni each of them had a cell phone they could have called the police or gone for help or

stopped the Attack by telling the grandmother that was downstairs remember that fact but they didn't and that led the prosecutor to believe that they had both attacked her together and thrown her off the cliff together and that meant they were equally culpable for her death but there is an additional even more disturbing aspect to this case the manolis family didn't stop at blaming Alexander and when they couldn't defend their son's Actions with all the evidence that was coming out they decided to go with a new tactic and blame elenni herself which highlights the misogyny in

the Greek culture this was going to be monus's defense that's right that alen was sleeping around with multiple men and she was meeting people at random online opening herself up to dangerous situations she hadn't learned her lesson the first time a year before yikes you would think that this is a bad idea to Go with this as your defense but soon both defendants were doubling down on this perspective probably hoping that it would get them off the hook for what they had done to elenni they changed their stories again they had to there was too

much evidence that showed not only did at least one of them have intercourse with her and I'll explain that in a moment but the electronic evidence was also damning once the cell phone data reports came back the Investigators could see that a few hours after they dispose of a Lenny off that Cliff 21-year-old manolis sends a message to a well-known lawyer on the island it was at 1011 in the morning and they talk on the phone and apparently he's asking them what he should do 19-year-old Alex also made phone calls to a close friend they

talked at 812 8:45 110 7 and 1112 why do you think he was making so many phone calls I could guess but then the next night at around 9:31 p.m. November 29th manolis went online and read the news that someone had found alen's body at sea but just an hour later at 10:27 p.m. guess what he's doing he's Googling a song called Mama I'm a Criminal by a band called Aion I hope I'm pronouncing that right I looked up the lyrics and they're exactly what you would probably assume they're about the singer confessing to their

mother that they're a criminal and how he puts people's names on granite meaning Gravestones I think Eminem sampled the intro of the song back in 2022 and put out his own version but manolis was looking up the Greek version and listening to it if that's not proof of guilt there's plenty more where that came from he was acting like nothing happened he went further he began talking to more women on Facebook trying to get them to meet up with him and when one wasn't interested and responded negatively to him harassing her over and Over again

I might add he just moved on to four other girls on messenger there was one girl he was calling and calling and pressuring her to hang out with him this is literally hours after he just dropped a woman off of a cliff when she said she didn't want to go saying I don't want to he said but I do disgusting there were also a bunch of text messages between manolas and his friends about going for a walk walk working out the gym but what was even More telling was at the time the crime against elenni

occurred there was evidence on monus's device that showed he was searching for adult content adult movies if you will he was Googling and looking on YouTube at 2:00 in the morning while aleni was at his Beach House however there was no communication found between manolis and elenni but the investigators did locate those messages from her and Alex after the murder Alex went to her Profile two separate times and that kind of made me feel sick I also mentioned proof that at least one of these men had intercourse with her while a used condom was found

at the house which had a Lenny's DNA on the outside but there was no male DNA collected inside due to them not finishing now when you think about Alex's story his starts to look like it might be closer to what happened he said he was on the bed with alenny they were doing something and then manolas walked In so keep that in mind among other things but when the truck was examined blood stains were also found on the passenger side the passenger door the left tire and some was smeared like it had been wiped and

when tested both alen's and monus's DNA were found in the passenger seat of the truck and Alex's DNA was found on the mop in the home monus's DNA was also found in samples from the bathroom as well as the trunk lid in the back of the truck Fingerprints of both perpetrators were found on the vodka bottle on glasses and mugs and a box of oranges inside the kitchen and one of lenn's fingerprints was found on a box of chocolates so now their story turns into okay we admit we both hooked up with her but it

was her idea adding that she liked it rough and she wasn't mentally stable so not only did they murder elenni in real life but they were trying to destroy her reputation after her death and it's Completely legal for the defense team to take this position and it's certainly not the first or the last time the strategy has been used in a Greek Court many cases like alenny has never even make it to trial in most perpetrators of this kind of violence are never even charged with a crime and if you need any more evidence about

the attitudes of Greek men towards women wait until you hear this monus's defense team petitioned the court to allow an all Male jury because he said quote women couldn't be trusted to be impartial end quote the fact that that's even a possibility in their minds and even in a court clearly demonstrates how women in Greece are viewed but of course that request was denied the murder trial began in May of 2020 in the middle of covid and both Alexander and manolas pleaded not guilty this trial went on for 5 months there were delays because of

what was happening in the world but It had been nearly 2 years two years of heartache and pain for everyone who loved aleni her her parents had to lay her to rest to say goodbye to their beloved daughter their only daughter who could never be replaced alen's father said that when they had to transport her coffin by plane from roads back to their Hometown he kept thinking the captain should go higher so that her body may meet her soul and come back to life and that made me sad the funeral procession Went all throughout the

streets of Viv Moto all the town's people and Friends of alenny and her family followed the Mercedes-Benz hearse as it made its way to the funeral parlor alen's parents sobbed as They Carried the line at the back of the hearse it was gut-wrenching to see their sadness everyone in black with umbrellas shielding them from the light rain as they showed their support and honored the memory of the 21-year-old girl gone too soon but after Alenny was finally home and at her final resting place inside her white coffin in a beautiful grave in a cemetery her

parents were not standing by idly they were constantly in the media they remind me a lot of the parents of Kaylee Gonzalez in the Idaho student Massacre who continued to Grant the media interviews and refused to let Society forget about the crime that stole their daughter and her friends alen's parents never stopped giving their opinions About The Killers and what they had done and the Ripple effects it had her mother said quote I feel the loss I understand that I will never see her again and that hurts a lot a daily pain unbearable and tyrannical

I can't handle it I accept that I lost my child in this heinous barbaric way end quote and she said that she replayed the night her daughter was killed in her mind retracing the path the truck drove and reconstructing the crime in her mind from the evidence she Said quote I identify with her pain with her screams I have a lot of unanswered questions because for 3.5 hours they could have saved her and they did nothing and quote she went on to say that they didn't take into account that elenni has parents they weren't just

killing her they were killing everyone who loved her adding quote my life is ruined I have no more life I'm a living but dead person I just live with memories in my house and with candles to Remember my daughter end quote alen's father said there was rarely a night since alenny was murdered that they could sleep he thinks about the horror his daughter went through her torment and it torments him every night images of her final moments Replay in his head sometimes it makes him wonder if they raised her to be too kind and that

hurt my heart but on the other hand he made the point that it's not as though you can pinpoint who in your child's life is Evil or bad just by looking at them he said you can't say look at that person you're with they might be a murderer because there are people all around us wearing disguises acting like well-intentioned people but underneath they're dark with Cruel Intentions instead of wondering if they raised theen wrong for being too loving and giving everyone a chance they turn their anger on the parents of the monsters who took her

life yes and you may not agree With this but remember this family is going through so much pain but Yannis pointed out that these men murdered a woman who did nothing to them but manolas he had so many chances to do the right thing in his life and growing up he chose a bad path and his parents swept his issues under the rug Giannis made the point that monus's parents knew he was violent they knew yet they didn't take him to get help from a specialist instead they continue to enable him I Think the best

point that Giannis made was that being a father or a mother isn't about creating the child in the womb it's about what you do during their life how you guide them what you teach them it's not just that you're a mother or just a father because you got someone pregnant or you gave birth to a child it's a difficult role that requires hard work to shape them into a loving person it's not about throwing money at them and hoping they'll figure it out or at Least get out of their parents' home and not be their

burden anymore like what they did with manolis all this is very deep and I felt really sad for this family I read so many of alen's Mother's Facebook posts about her pain and the way she described it so vividly I can't fully understand it but I can empathize with the loss that she felt there's nothing she could have done to save her daughter and then so many secrets were uncovered as they awaited trial so many Women came forward with stories about manolis and about other men like him and there was proof of a tragic Trend

in roads where during the summer these men Target tourists to force them into terrible acts and when the winter rolls around they target students and they lure them back to places like the beach house force them to watch graphic adult content and then act out the same things on them I told you those mattresses weren't meant for sleeping they were set In front of that TV where manolis and Alex would play violent sexual videos while their victims awaited their fate whether it was to get the guys in the mood scare the women or a combo

it's just suppor the investigators even found a private secret Facebook group that was really popular with men on the island where they would post nude photos and videos of girls that they had been intimate with and they would share these with other people the interrogation in This case alone went on for over a year and then during that over 5mon trial both men put their true Nature's on display they smiled at one another they laughed during the proceedings and they even taunted the media waiting outside the courtroom they were photographed on more than one occasion

flipping the finger to the camera as they walk between the Courthouse and the prison well lenn's mother made sure to let everyone know how they made her feel Many times people had to hold her her back when she saw those monsters she would scream at them things like Killers you've ruined our lives and my child's life and I have to look at you when inside the courtroom having to breathe the same air as these men who were responsible for taking alen's Last Breath her mother would scream at them one time she's like I will kill

you with my own hands you murderers I will take your life of course her husband had to Restrain her and many times she had to be led out of the courtroom to calm down and honestly I don't blame her her the perpetrator's family weren't silent either Alex's father said to the media quote condolences to the family I say it and I mean it I'm also a father and I'm in the same pain end quote he said that he didn't raise a monster and I do understand that he's also essentially losing a son when he's behind

bars but it's not the same and monus's family was Not silent either his mom told reporters that he called her crying saying mom I couldn't kill that girl I was trying to close my ears so I wouldn't hear her scream and then mans's mom talked about how her family was going through such a difficult time and that she will stand next to her child and she could also feel the pain of alen's mother she went on to say that words don't matter only the truth matters and hopefully it will come out a trial she said

she wish that None of them were in this position and I don't really know what to say about that because um your son created this whole situation one thing that's different in Greece compared to the United States is that Greece an attorney can actually request a cross-examination of the defendant in court whereas here it's the defendant's choice to testify and then they can be cross-examined but in Greece if the judge grants the prosecution's request They must answer questions that directly challenge their version of events and try to establish inconsistencies with any of the evidence that

was presented and I found that to be very interesting in and in this case the judge did Grant the request and both defendants would be subjected to intense questioning because even their defense attorney said that they sometimes confessed their actions sometimes they denied them and in general they had so far contradictory Positions about what exactly happened by this time manolas had changed his version of the story to say that alenia agreed to have relations with both of the men at the same time and then afterward the reason why Alex hit her with the iron and

started to beat her was because she told him that manolis was better in bed manolis never admitted to any part of the crime he claimed he didn't help elenni because according to him Alex threatened to hurt him and he Was a martial arts Champion so he was scared and Alex stuck to his same exact story that elenni was there to be with him and manolas tried to force himself on her and she refused so manolis beat her another change in the story that I forgot to mention is remember when Manola said oh Alex just left

I have no idea what happened well the investigators lied him and said they had video and they knew he was lying and he confessed that he was actually at the Cliffs side but he said that of course Alex threw over the cliff anytime either one of these guys were talking about what happened they were talking like it was an ordinary part of their day it was like they didn't understand the gravity of the situation and neither one apologized also uncovered were prins from Alex's left palm on the ironing board now this became a big deal

but I'm going to say I don't think it's that big of a deal so what they were saying we Know that an iron is usually near an ironing board but what the defense were saying was that now we know it had to be Alex that use the iron because he grabbed it with his right hand while holding the ironing burn down with his left and of course we can take that as being the truth but we don't know if he grabbed it from manolis we don't know if he used the iron on a different occasion

cuz he' been staying there that doesn't prove he was the one who struck her with It but man's defense attorney was definitely running with that theory even though it was manolis who had been violent in his past and even presently in prison he would scream at prison officers and tell them that if he saw them on the outside he would F them up he was so cruel and threatening to one of the officers that he developed high blood pressure and had to be transferred away from man's unit I feel like a broken record but it

was also uncovered That the Bola family allegedly tried to delete information from his phone when he was in jail before it was finally confiscated and although incriminating searches which I told you out were deleted from the device they were still found on the data extraction even as Facebook was deleted following the murder and while in prison his parents paid a doctor to prescribe him with anti-depressants to make him appear more calm and so it was harder for him to Appear as aggressive the charging documents in the case against both of these men were finally complete

and it stated in summary that both men conspired to force aleni into relations and that manolas used Alex to lure her to his summerhouse where they took turns torturing and forcing themselves on her while strangling and punching her into a submission even threatening her with a knife to get her to submit to even more indecent acts and when she refused both Defendants who were into martial arts and working out punched her with force in the face and as a result she became dizzy and momentarily lost Consciousness regaining Consciousness after a while alenia declared to the

defendants her intention to report them to the police thus igniting their anger and at the same time they're concerned that they would be arrested and face criminal penalties for their behavior they then decided jointly to get rid of her as she Begged for her life and to be taken to the hospital instead they used an iron to beat her until again she was semiconscious then they took her to an isolated area that only manolas would have been familiar with and both lifted the body in her semiconscious State and threw it from a height of about

30 ft into the sea that was what they were charged for that was the entire charging document the trial began began 2 days before alen's birthday and rallies were Held outside the courthouse every day 11 Witnesses testified including co- Guard officer zovas the residents who spotted alen's body in the water the friend of alen's that I referred to as Nora who spoke to her last monus's grandmother who was supposedly in the lower level of the beach house that night both of the accused and their parents Alex's sister and the medical examiner and of course a

few other officers I'm not going to go over what both defendants said because Already know the story I'm not going to go over the medical examiner's report but when the medical examiner was testifying he was asked a question at the very end about whether there was proof that alen was forced into intercourse and the medical examiner said something pretty intense he said regardless of intercourse there is no consent in death so whatever consent there was there's no way it could have covered what happened next and that was So true one of the Coast Guard officers

Mr malami he testified that when he was interviewing manolis at first he knew manolis had a sister and he also had a sister so he said to him imagine this happen to your own sister why did you do it and manolis replied with quote it was very stupid God will punish us end quote both defendants were also questioned and there were many outbursts during their testimony when Manola said that alenny consented her father yelled and asked Are you ashamed what consent are you talking about you rushed her with a knife to her neck and if

it wasn't a Lenny it would have been another girl the defendant stories were the same as I already told you but when Alex took the stand he was sobbing uncontrollably saying that I didn't kill her I helped her I bathed her she told me to take me to the hospital I will say that his reactions were more human than monus's reactions he was much more arrogant but All of this could be an act when mans's father took the stand he painted him as a boy who had drug problems and was easily influenced by friends and

he said he believed his son that elenni wanted it and that it was consented to which of course caused an uproar in the courtroom and Alex's sister took the stand and she echoed the same in his regard that there was no way he forced elenni but we know he forced other girls if that's true the ones who came forward and in her Testimony she painted Alex as the one that was influenced by manolis she said their relationship was different than any other of his friends her brother treated manolis like an idol because he had so

much money she also claimed that Alex told her that he was so excited to meet alenny but when she asked him the next day how their date was he started crying but he wouldn't tell her why later when she learned about the incident from the TV she asked him again What happened and he started crying he apologized to her and she asked why are you apologizing he answered because I betrayed your love and that if it wasn't under the influence of fear he would have protected alenny he couldn't react in the moment because he was

trapped in his fears and he didn't defend her as for mana's Grandma she testified that she was home that night on the first floor in the three-story townhouse and that she was in the bathroom and she Could hear a car come up and then voices of her grandson calling to Alex she also heard the voice of a girl but she said she heard the laughter but she did not hear anything else that night she just went to sleep but she wished she would have been listening when it was alen's Mother's turn on the stand she

highlighted all that she had lost and how she wants the maximum punishment for the accused she said quote for two lifetimes they will not see the light of The Sun for me to be justified I will kill them if they're not put in prison for life I will do the work for elenni aleni was the most beautiful thing I had in my life I was happy when I gave birth to her and they ruined my life I want them to be sentenced with the highest penalty two humanoid monsters were found to take my daughter's life

end quote the defense was brutal at one point they claimed alenny couldn't have been forced into anything because her bra was still On when she was found yeah they were like what man would leave on a woman's bra if they were forcing her into intercourse what but yeah that was really one of their arguments but I do want to point out her other garments were completely ripped the defense also said that elenni was playing truth or dare with the men and completing their dares with consent which included in intercourse but the most powerful moment Was

when the prosecutor made her closing arguments which I wish I could read in their entirety like verbatim but they were 4 hours long I can't even believe that they were 4 hours long and it was very moving but again I know you like long videos anyway I'm going to highlight the most important parts of what she said and this was translated by a journalist online and she began with all this time the truth is been told in a thousand different ways the truth will Now be heard one final time from my lips in summation what

is closest to the truth and the truth that her family needs to hear is that Elena was led as an innocent lamb to the slaughter let Justice Prevail even if Hell Breaks Loose and the world is shaken to its roots Justice can see quite clearly in the dark when it wants to from the start of this trial the defendants resorted to all sorts of procedural tricks to obscure the fact of this case the two Men pretended to be angry at one another no intelligent person believes that there's a rift in the relationship simply because one

blames the other during the trial recess they laugh they're in complete alignment this is a game one of them blaming the other to create confusion the natural reaction for one charged with such a crime is not this two people with such crimes if they were in disagreement they would tear each other To shreds but here they are simply sticking to a predetermined strategy in this way they want to blur their responsibilities the lawyers are in on this game they're not trying to fool the judges they want to fool the jury to create doubt Alex's first

statement is the one that comes closest to the truth once the lawyers enter the scene lies and deceit abound so that's what she said in the beginning as she opened and now I'm just going to make a few points That she made I'm just reading it verbatim as it was translated the prosecutor at this point does something unheard of especially for women and an officer of the Court she accuses the defense of hiding the truth and she said these lawyers did their best to hide the truth she added that the lawyers for the defense were

trying to fool the jury right from the start and not to believe anything they said and she also said not to believe the defendants that they Didn't have any remorse and how officer zova solved this case and he put all the evidence together but certain people in power tried to silence him a certain prominent citizen of the island of RADS used all sorts of backhanded methods to stop stop officer Zas she said I come from roads I know a few things Alexander was the bait he's not wealthy manolis is the rich boy from roads Alexander

is the attractive boy with an Angelic face he was the front man to attract girls and Take them to the other who had money and at that particular moment aleni was fragile she had already been targeted and they targeted her an unsuspecting victim she wanted to make a point that even though it had been said by various witnesses that alenny was dating Alex or wanted to be with Alex and went on her own and willingly she said that doesn't matter even if you're in a relationship even if you're married she said a woman has a

right to say no and by the way a Year before this case went to trial in 2019 Greece finally recognize consent as a part of whether an act is forced or not that was a huge deal because remember before it didn't matter unless you were injured well that changed and now you had to get consent even if you were married the prosecutor also explained that a Lenny had no idea she was going to be going all the way to lindos that night that was evident by the way she left her apartment and I Wanted to

get back to that really quickly there was so much that showed she was in the middle of doing her chores her everyday routine and she told her friend she was just going to get a bite with Alex she did not have any plans for anything else as these defendants claim you think she would have told her friends like oh I'm going back to this beach house with a couple guys no the prosecutor brought up a another Point she said if she wanted to Do something further if she wanted to like hook up with Alex why

wouldn't she just do that in her apartment she didn't have to go somewhere else to do that they could have done it in the privacy of her own place not driven an hour away and the reason she texted her friend according to the prosecution is that she gets there and realizes she's in an isolated place with these two guys that she does not know but then according to the defendants they drank a lot well if That was the case why did they find a bottle that was pretty much to the top I mean was like

3/4 of the way full and if she was watching Adult movies the prosecutor said what makes you think she wanted to be part of that as they claimed she would have done anything if it meant saving her life she found herself in the lair of monsters she was innocent the prosecutor went on to say that there were two knives because there were two criminals they wanted to render Her motionless by strangling her and she fought back for 3 hours when she doesn't die that triggers their anger and they worry that if she survives she's going

to turn them in so they finish her off they take her to the bathroom because there's so much blood that won't stop and every so often she's regaining Consciousness she even asked him to take her to the hospital this whole house is full of blood even on the ceiling they found DNA then they wrapped her in a Sheet to hide her body and they dragged her down the stairs one in front of the other the body was Heavy she was in a semiconscious state the stairs were full of blood and then they t in the

sea she ended by saying that aleni was a girl with dreams and goals who had Incredible strength in a house of Terror and she was a symbol for other girls to be strong they treated her like she was nothing when she was done speaking alen's father approached her with Flowers and said that they were on behalf of elenni and the prosecutor was weeping hysterically and the whole courtroom was clapping at this point and this is not allowed in US courts so it kind of took me by surprise I I was like wow I can't believe

they just let people kind of have outbursts speak back to each other during the course of the trial but wow her statement was so powerful and remember it was 4 hours I only gave you a highlight of what she Said but it caused waves because she was a servant of justice but she was also a woman fighting against things that males have done in violence she was a hero to many women but she was actually reported to The Lawyers Association for so-called stepping over her boundaries when she accused the defense of lying and hiding the

truth so a government Deputy actually scolded her in public on social media and requested a disciplinary review in the end she maintained her Position and as for the two monsters they were found guilty in a unanimous decision by the jury and this would be a life sentence for both of them there were no mitigating factors even though the defense did try to bring some the judge denied their ability to do so in Greece the life sentence is actually a minimum of 10 years so Alexander was also given five extra because of what he did to

that other girl so his was a minimum of 25 years before eligible for Parole and since elen's tragic death her family has been actively campaigning for the recognition of femicide as a distinct legal category in Greece I stumbled Upon A now discontinued art exhibition that hoped to shed light on femicide and elenni was part of it this very unique project was called she's gone and I never seen anything like it before and I'm so sad that it wasn't continued the creators were two artists Israeli women Karen Goldstein and AD Levy they would reach out to

families of victims to ask for articles of clothing that they once wore proudly then they would hang them up from the ceilings of museums and they display them and it was very powerful seeing those clothes that were once worn without their bodies in them any longer alen's parents said that they wanted so badly for heleni to be featured but their souls were bleeding when they had to choose which which garment they would give away alen's mom Said they were crying over each piece of her clothing until they decided on which ones she said quote this

process was very difficult to know that once these clothes covered your child's body and now this child is gone and that the clothes will be shown in an exhibition about murdered women we didn't want anything to leave the house but we had to participate in this effort that is being made the choice was very difficult because in every garment there is a life Story there were dreams and now there's a cry of Despair frustration and anger there's no tomorrow or hope we too had all these dreams for our child to do the things she dreamed

of she was deprived of all of her dreams they took her from my arms in one night end quote I virtually walked one of these exhibitions online that one didn't include alen's garments hers were actually an event in Greece but I'll show you what the clothing her parents Chose looked like in a moment but I see the outfits from so many other women who were murdered and I read each of the tags that were on the clothing with a summary of their stories it was very sad and moving here's the Lenny's outfit it was a

professional suit signifying her dream of being a diplomat it consisted of a long- sleeve white shirt with ruffled sleeves a black blazer and black pants there was even a necklace included alen's murder was the first case in Greece where femicide was used to describ the motive of the attack it indicated a turning point in how the country and its citizens responded to gender-based violence elenni was the 18th person murdered in Greece in a gender motivated crime in 2018 alone femicide is recognized as a distinct crime in several countries around the world places like Mexico Argentina

Chile and Italy have laws that specifically address the killing of women because of Their gender every single year since her murder alen's parents go to her graveside on her birthday with a cake and celebrate with her I was tearing up looking at this because of the pictures that I found of her as a child with a cake It's just sad it's hard not to be affected by these photos of them as they age over the years probably faster because of what happened in 2021 the mayor of alen's Hometown named a street after her and put

up a beautiful Monument many people gathered around when it went up and spoke kind words about elenni and her family even famous people spoke out a Greek rock musician singer and songwriter fever's delorus I'm probably saying that wrong which translated as fear of delusion he he released a song entitled alenny in 2022 to honor her memory I always link all my sources below so you can do your own research but I will call out the link to this song specifically so you can listen To it of course it is in Greek but the lyrics are

also available to translate online and I will put them below as well if I can but the first few lines give you an idea he sings I'm thinking of alenny topila what if a song would have a purpose to rise in the Nets that drowned her to fall in the sea that threw her it's chilling and it's potic alen's murder has had millions of Ripple effects and I hope it has more now that I've shared the details with you I hope We can take away a lot from this case but I want to end with

her mother's words that she shared on Facebook in a post about her precious daughter she said my elenni my baby my little girl my child my soul heart of my soul and my heart my little one for 9 months you were inside my body 9 months how many thoughts how many dreams I made for us they get lost in the expectations I dreamed of you coming Into my life to see your little face to embrace your little body and awe to breathe your breath and I prayed and promised myself that everything would go well with

your arrival I dreamed that my arms would be filled with a new life I dreamed of singing you little songs lulling you and teaching you different things about life and people you came and lit up the whole world I was the luckiest and happy mom in the world I sat for hours and hours watching You and my brain recording your every smile every expression on your face when sometimes a cough for a fever bothered you I cried and prayed to the mother of God that you would overcome it that I wouldn't get something too because

then what would happen I dreamed that you would walk talk and do everything I dreamed you would run to me hug me I dreamed of you saying your first words and calling me Mom I would get lost in the magic of that word my little Leni as You Grew Older so did my anxiety the time had come for you to DARE and spread your wings cut yourself off from your parents for a while go to kindergarten at first it was difficult then everything became easy I wanted to go with you and hold you your little

hand getting lost in mine you grew up and you tried your best you put a lot of effort in your exams and we were always by your side in every one of your wishes and you finally found your path in life but it Didn't have a beautiful destination because some monsters got in the way of your life and they didn't let you enjoy everything you work for let my child's Soul Rejoice I did not dream of superb things I did not have big and dangerous plans only achievable goals I never dreamed of money lots of

wealth honors Glory medals and greatness only joy and satisfaction and love this is what I dreamed for for you I dreamed to have children that they would live to a very Old age Mya Lenny that you would have lived your whole life happy this is what I dreamed of and they got in your way those monsters to satiate their gluttony until they go through what you went through there will not be Justice let it happen I'm waiting her words were beautiful and I personally want to say to elen's family I am so true really sorry

from one parent to another I hurt for you and I know alenny dreamed of traveling the world and representing Greece on an international stage and while she never got that chance to achieve that in her life this story has been heard and talked about far beyond her Homeland and I hope that this video will reach thousands more and while it's not the path she envisioned her death has sparked conversations across multiple languages and countries that is an achievement she would have been proud of inp of its tragic Foundation thank you so much for being here

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