The belief that Captain Thanassis Lambrou committed suicide on December 8, 2014, when aged 42 years was overturned after witnesses from Argolis, in the Peloponnese where he lived, came forth and revealed new information.
The captain was found sprawled face down in a pool of blood in the courtyard of his best friend’s house. A revolver was found clasped in his right hand. However, there was also a bloodstained knife next to the victim.
Nafplion police work found that though the murder scene was staged to look like a suicide, there were many question marks regarding the death.
What unravelled during the examination was a case of sex, seething jealousy and betrayal that had all the trappings of a sex mystery.
The last time the murder victim was seen alive was at 11.30 a.m. on the main road leading to his friend’s house. He rode his bike, didn’t respond to people’s greetings and lookd as though something was bothering him. Just 10 minutes earlier he had been on the phone with his cousin and appeared calm. For an unknown reason, within ten minutes he was stirred to leap from his home, leaving behind his bag, cell phone and cigarettes – three items he always had with him.
The victim’s wife, Dimitra Lambrou-Voulgari, said she had coffee with her husband and took her daughter to school as usual. She described her actions that day in detail, and appeared on various shows making it her life’s purpose to find the culprits responsible for the murder. “I may seem a little cold and distant but I cried a lot and now I’ve detached from my feelings. I only feel hatred and enormous pain,” she told a missing person’s show. “I will feel pleasure when they catch the perpetrators. I live for that moment.”
From the first moment she fought to prove that her husband had been murdered rather than committed suicide. And who better to know this than the murderer? She, herself.
On Friday, July 24, she broke under pressure and confessed to the murder after 16 hours of questioning. No sooner did she confess, that she was led to Korydallos security prison only to deny the confession.
The motive
There were whispers in Argolis about spicy details concerning Dimitra’s personal life. When Lambrou came back to Argolis from his latest shipping expedition he sought a 19-year-old he believed was his wife’s lover.
He gave up his job with trips to Madagascar so that he wouldn’t have to be away, however Dimitra had already begun to believe that her husband was having an affair. She states that h always kept his cell phone hidden – even hidden in his undies or under his pillow so that she wouldn’t find it. Money would go missing as he shouted women and hookers at bars.
There was bickering in their 12-year marriage. The night before the murder, a huge argument broke out over her husband’s relationship with a blondish blue-eyed woman that some say worked with Thanassis on a yacht he captained.
Friends and relatives state that he left the house in a hurry to catch his wife cheating on him. Dimitra states that the opposite is true.
