A childhood friend of the victim’s daughter, an acquaintance of the family, that was often in and out of the house and knew the area well. This is the confessed perpetrator of the murder of the 63-year-old woman in Chalkida.

The man had been brought in earlier by the authorities and finally “broke down” and confessed to his heinous act.

Well-informed sources told protothema.gr that the perpetrator had issues with gambling and knew that there was money in the woman’s house.

So he decided to break into it and when the unfortunate 63-year-old woman realised who he was he picked up the knife and took her life by stabbing her five times. In fact, his fingerprints were found at the scene of the crime.

The tragic story began to unfold on Friday afternoon (10/5) when a family friend of the victim called the authorities and reported that she went to the woman’s house and found her dead.

At the scene, members of the National Police rushed to the scene. and found that the body of the deceased was inside her two-storey house, at the base of an internal staircase, in a prone position and with a visible head wound, and there was a pool of blood at the scene.

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In addition, it was found that the rooms on the first floor of the house were visibly disturbed, the entrances to the house bore no obvious signs of forced entry and were unsecured, and, as the deceased’s daughter and cohabitant testified, the sum of 7,000 euros had been taken from her room at an unspecified time.