Murder of Caroline Crouch

Caroline Crouch (12 July 2001 – 11 May 2021) was a Greek student of British and Filipino descent, who was murdered on the morning of 11 May 2021, in her home on Glyka Nera, a suburb of Athens, Greece.

[3] According to the initial statement given to the prosecuting authorities by her husband, a few hours after midnight (04:30), three hooded armed robbers entered the couple's residence through the basement window and killed the family dog by hanging it by its leash from the stair rail.

A reward of 300,000 euros was offered for information leading to the capture of the robbers; the police condemned the brutality of the crime.

[1][5] During the first days of the investigations, a 43-year-old man, a citizen of Georgia, was arrested as he tried to cross the border into Bulgaria with a fake passport;[6] however, no evidence connecting him with the case was found.

The investigations of the prosecuting authorities continued with the search for the escape vehicle of the perpetrators, analyzing data from the security cameras that were present in nearby houses and shops in the area of Glyka Nera, without finding anything related to the case.

[7] From the analysis of the digital evidence of both the victim and her husband (mobile phones, biometric watch, camera) it was found that there was a significant discrepancy in the times reported by Anagnostopoulos during his statement to the prosecuting authorities.

After a long testimony to the General Police Directorate of Attica, and with the announcement of the findings, the husband confessed that he murdered Crouch, claiming that the cause of his act was the frequent frictions that existed between them.

As for his attempt to divert the investigations by claiming the crime was a robbery, he attributed it to not wanting their 11-month-old child to grow up without either of her parents.