That day she was going to the bank in Psila Alonia so as to deposit one million drachmas, income of the company she was working at, but she never arrived there. Angeliki Nikolouli didn’t believe that the woman ran away with other people’s money, as everyone said. She focused her research at her route from her work to the bank where she could go later as everybody there knew her well and would cater to her even late at noon. She found out that somewhere in her route was the house of her young boyfriend who exploited her financially and lately was going out provocatively with another woman. That was something that had infuriated the missing woman who was asking consistently for explanations that day. The journalist discovered that before the woman left her office, she talked on the phone with her boyfriend and a colleague of hers heard her saying: ‘I’m coming’. Her boyfriend Vasilis Sapsanis was telling everyone that he was anxious and that he was ‘looking everywhere for Labrini’. He didn’t want to talk to the TV show and tried to avoid the journalist who spotted him in Patra. His nervousness, his provocative way of living and his actions that day, convinced Angeliki Nikolouli that he was the one responsible of her disappearance. The Authorities weren’t convinced and didn’t proceed to any further investigation. Nevertheless, the show had revealed that that specific night, her boyfriend took out of his apartment many old objects and among them a folded carpet…The journalist realized from her research that they had a fight, he struggled her, he hid her body in his apartment where he was staying alone, he went out for coffee so as to have an alibi and at night he got rid of her. After sixteen months the body was found at the land of her boyfriend at Starochori of Achaia. The 33 year-old was arrested for the murder the next day, on February 6th 2002. He was taken into custody and on February 3rd 2003, he was convicted first degree at the Mixed Jury Court of Amaliada but he was found innocent. The Deputy Procurator of Appeals asked to change the verdict of the first court. After three postponements, the case was tried at the Mixed Jury Court of Appeals of Patra on May 19th 2008. He was sentenced to 16 years of imprisonment for fatal robbery because he didn’t hesitate to rob the woman he murdered! (He took from her all company’s earnings that she intended to deposit right after her date with him)
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