A bouquet of white flowers has been placed in the reception office of the camping site in Finikounda, Messenia, where the 68-year-old owner and 60-year-old manager met their violent deaths, as a small tribute to the two victims of this tragedy. The Live News camera captured the office space, the scene of the first murder, the room where the perpetrator entered determined to kill. The show revealed new details surrounding the shocking double homicide.
According to revelations from Mega TV, there is information that police may have found traces of the motorcycle the perpetrator used to escape, and who it might belong to. With the murder and the perpetrator’s escape occurring during nighttime hours, authorities’ investigations focus on providing answers to what happened before the murder and the perpetrator’s movements.
Finikounda: What the 68-year-old camping owner’s nephew says
The 68-year-old businessman’s nephew witnessed the murder and says he saw the perpetrator enter the camping site, bypass the manager, and then shoot his uncle.
The manager tried to flee the scene, with the perpetrator shooting him. It’s still unknown whether the sixth bullet, which ultimately ended up in a trailer, was intended for the victim’s nephew.
Timeline of the murder
With swift movements, the young perpetrator drew a weapon and shot the unfortunate Kostas twice. Once in the head and once in the chest. The manager, despite initial shock, tried to disappear. However, the perpetrator caught up and shot him three times from the side and behind. Then, according to the testimony of Kostas Tomaras’s nephew, the executioner turned toward him and shot once, fortunately missing. The reason the perpetrator didn’t continue shooting, police say, is because he used a revolver, meaning a pistol with a cylinder that holds six bullets. Rather than waste time emptying the cylinder and loading new bullets to kill the only eyewitness to the murderous attack, he decided to flee.
He crossed approximately 80 meters within the camping site’s fenced area and an additional 100 meters to the road, where he boarded a motorcycle and disappeared. The escape method was initially revealed by a Greek-German woman living in a house right next to the road, who reported to police that after the gunshots she heard a motorcycle leaving the scene at high speed, though she couldn’t see if there were one or two passengers. The motorcycle the woman mentioned was found abandoned outside Pylos and is being thoroughly examined for genetic material and fingerprints.
