A glimmer of hope has emerged in recent hours for homicide department officers after the discovery of video footage showing a little girl believed to be the unfortunate child found dead on Eden Beach in Palaio Faliro. Coast Guard officers who initially took charge of investigating the case, since the girl’s body was found in the sea, managed to collect security camera footage that records, in two different routes, a woman walking with two children while having another child in a stroller. The child in the stroller appears to be wearing a similar shirt to the one worn by the little girl who drowned in the sea of Palaio Faliro.
The woman with the children walks along the waterfront toward the location where the body was discovered. The second video footage, which presents exceptional interest, shows the same woman accompanied by the two other children, but not the third child in the stroller. The stroller appears to be empty with the heavy-set woman walking. Journalistic sources report that the woman does not appear troubled or concerned about anything. She walked at the same pace along the waterfront in the first video as she did in the second footage.
Based on the times when her movements were recorded, police are now analyzing video footage frame by frame from other cameras in an attempt to sketch her profile and, primarily, her route. Where she might have started from, where she might have ended up, whether she boarded any vehicle and, of course, whether there is a clear shot of her.
Police investigations have focused on this specific woman and there is a race against time to locate her. The footage records the woman’s movements with the children on Saturday afternoon, approximately 12 hours before the unfortunate girl was found dead.
Dead girl in Palaio Faliro: The questions that remain
It should be noted that during the autopsy of the little girl on Monday afternoon at the Athens Forensic Service morgue, the two forensic pathologists who examined her, Giorgos Di Lernia and Nikos Kalogrias, determined that the girl died as a result of drowning. Moreover, findings from sand and seawater were discovered in her internal organs. Consequently, police estimate that the child was brought alive to the Palaio Faliro waterfront.
However, why the woman abandoned the child in the sea and disappeared remains an unsolved mystery. Perhaps she wasn’t the child’s mother? What happened that prevented her from filing a missing person report? Did the child die and she feared arrest?
Answers to these questions are expected to be provided, most likely, once the woman recorded in the video footage discovered by Coast Guard officers is located, breathing new life into investigations that had previously reached a dead end.
