Convicted murderer Irini Mourtzoukou is now retracting one of her four infant murder confessions in an audio recording from her cell at Korydallos Prison. Previously, she had confessed to killing four infants, while still denying any involvement in the death of little Panagiotakis. However, in new conversations that have come to light, Mourtzoukou is “taking back” her statements regarding the death of Katerina’s baby.
Irini Mourtzoukou: The conversation that “overturns” her confession
Specifically, in the audio document, the confessed killer can be heard telling a relative: “When Katerina called me, I think about it and get angry, many things go through my mind. ‘Please come quickly, because you need to watch the child for 20 minutes.’ Katerina, I’m working, I tell her, I won’t even have time to go see Maria, I didn’t have time to see Maria then, I saw her through video call. ‘Please, I have to, I have work.’ OK, I’ll go. Where’s the child, I ask her? She had the child, how was our door? She had placed it all the way back against the wall, there on the wall where the crib is. I ask her, have you given the child medicine? I’m not taking responsibility, she tells me yes. Milk, I say, yes.” “In how many hours, I ask her, will it wake up? To take medicine or milk again? Leave it, she tells me, it’s not going to wake up, it doesn’t need to. Every three hours it wakes up, I tell her, it’s a baby, won’t it drink milk? She had covered it completely. OK, I say, it’s sleeping. I didn’t even touch it, nothing. As I’m talking to Maria on video call and we were laughing, Maria, I tell her, I also have the little one here. Why is it so quiet, she asks me, how come it’s sleeping? I tell her, now that you mention it, wait let me check. Three hours had passed since Katerina left, from the 20 minutes she was supposed to come back,” she added.
