Army officer serial killer

Cypriot authorities have been accused of failing to properly investigate the women's disappearances due to neglect and racism. President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday fired top police officer Zacharias Chrysostomou a day after Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou announced his resignation over the case. Metaxas appeared in court without a lawyer and has been remanded in custody for a further eight days. Authorities have acknowledged that all the women and girls that the army officer has admitted to killing were reported missing to police, except the one from Nepal who was reported to immigration for being absent from her place of employment.

The police said today they would continue to look for a third suitcase the suspect allegedly confessed to dumping in the lake. Authorities said they were able to locate the second suitcase by using sophisticated equipment including a robotic camera flown in from the United States.

He said police were still assessing data found on electronic equipment belonging to the suspect. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.

Argos AO. Privacy Policy Feedback. Cyprus serial killer: Police find fifth body in suitcase as army officer 'who has confessed to killing seven foreign women and girls' appears in court Captain Nicos Metaxas, 35, has been dubbed 'the island's first serial killer' He appeared in court today as police found the remains of a body in a suitcase Local media have reported the body is that of a child Metaxas has confessed to the murder of five women and two of their daughters But he has not yet been formally charged over their murders By Jack Newman For Mailonline and Afp Published: GMT, 5 May Updated: GMT, 6 May e-mail 1.

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Comments Share what you think. View all. Bing Site Web Enter search term: Search. Kickstart your with the one thing you need this January He went to high-school at Canada's most prestigious boys school in Scarborough, Ontario, and was working as a newspaper boy. In his final two years of high school, his parents moved to South Korea because his father accepted an overseas job with a nuclear research program. He studied economics and political science at the University of Toronto, Scarborough.

His year military career was nothing but success. The same year, Williams married Mary Elizabeth Harriman with whom he had four healthy children. On the Department of National Defence website, Williams described himself as a keen photographer, fisherman and runner as well as an avid golfer.

They thought they know Williams and spent a great deal of time together with the sadistic murderer, who also shared a close bond with both of their children. The former colonel felt so comfortable inside their home that in September , he chose their daughter as his first victim. Posted by Rick Jr. Paulson May 8, Serial Killers. Born on May 27, , he was and Army veteran, serving almost two decades as a helicopter pilot for the U.

He dropped out of college soon after and got married. Working as a prison guard did not last too long, as in he enlisted in the Army, attending flight school at Fort Rucker. He graduated being authorized to fly civilian transport airplanes and helicopters.

Looked like a fulfilling career and well awarded. Yates ended his career as a chief warrant officer-4, the highest rank a warrant officer could attain in the Army. However, he was not able to fly anymore in part because of delays in processing his medical examination. During his evaluation, he was grounded.

Yates Family Home Movies. Between and , multiple prostitutes were found dead, all at the hand of Robert Lee Yates. Initially they were solicited for prostitution. Yates used to have sex with them, after which he killed them.

All of his victims died of gunshot wounds to the head. But that was not when he started killing. His first victims were back in , almost two decades earlier. Susan Savage, 22 years old and Patrick Oliver, 21 years old, were a couple enjoying a picnic on Mill Creek, when fate put them in the path of Yates. Yates was practicing his target shooting in the same area.

For Yates, the couple were nothing more than targets. He viciously executed them, shooting Patrick three times in the head, then shooting Susan two times. He buried the bodies under a pile of brush. Their remains were found just days later. After his arrest, facing death penalty, he made a deal in which he confessed killing another victim on July 7, , as well as pinpointing her location and injuries.

She was Stacy Elizabeth Hawn, a 23 years old prostitute, whose remains were discovered months later in Skagit County. She was shot in the head.

On August 26, , the remains of Jennifer Joseph, 16 years old, were found in an advanced state of decomposition. Law enforcement retrieved DNA samples from semen swabs, which were matched to Yates. She was buried in a shallow grave, with tho plastic bags covering her head. The cause of dead was two gunshots to the head. DNA samples were retrieved from her body and matched again to Yates. On December 7, , another victim was discovered. The failure of the authorities to adequately investigate the murders, despite the five women and two girls being declared missing, has triggered outrage in a society until now unused to serial killings and the horrors of serious crime.

Protest vigils have been held by migrant workers and civil rights groups outside the presidential palace, and in towns across the island. The trial followed a two-month search for the bodies of the victims, with British and Israeli experts flying to the island to offer specialist assistance.

In what was the final discovery for authorities who had worked around the clock to locate victims, the body of a six-year-old girl, the youngest person to die at the hands of Metaxas, was found earlier this month wrapped in a sheet tied to a cement block 20ft six metres underwater. Last week, the British Cypriot businessman and philanthropist Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou also announced he would be compensating the families of victims.