A witness has come forward saying she saw 3 people bundle Vasilis Kalogirou into a car close to the park in Larisa coossed by a branch of the Pineos river at the time of his disappearance, about 6 30 pm on December 2024.
https://www.topontiki.gr/2025/02/22/vasilis-kalogirou-bike-me-tria-atoma-se-ena-aftokinito-ti-lei-o-diikitis-tis-ipiresias-silver-alert-video/
Why did the police not find the witnss as part of their inquiries?
The witness report is consistent with the testimony of a close family friend who said he saw no sign that the 39 yeard old teacher and pyschologist was suicidal and considered his disappearance to be a crime from the beginning.
As top police analyst Stavros Balaskas has ruled out suciide and an accident and said the victim was most likely murdered, the main question now is who murdered him and for what motive?
Balaskas, a high ranking member of the police union, said one of the most significant findings under investigation concerns an injury to Kalogerou’s neck. conisent with stangulation.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1162529/police-unionist-being-probed-after-trashing-justice-system/
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/01/14/greek-police-protection-ring/
But no rope or means of stangulation such as tie or belt were found around his neck or close to his body as we would expect. After he strangled himself, he would not have been alive to move around and remove ropes etc
To clarify, the cause of his death has been attributed to sttrangulation or asphixation
But he had no rope or other means with him to strangle himself with. Threfore, he cannot have stangled himself.
That means, someone else strangled him.
His body was found lying on on rough terrain with rocks and low scrubberies and a few trees and not in proximity to any high tree, bridge, lamp post or elevated place where he could have hung himself even if he had a rope or other means to strangle himself.
https://www.protothema.gr/greece/article/1603616/oloklirothike-i-ereuna-sto-kinito-kai-ton-upologisti-tou-vasili-kalogirou-den-vrethike-tipota-upopto/
Yet, he was found only 600 metres from a barn belonging to a farm with dogs, which we know bark loudly because they started barking six days before his body was found.
Would he not have heard the dogs starting to bark and be afraid of being discovered if he really was determined to esxape all attention and commit suicide?
Why did he lie down in a place in close proximity to a farm with barking dogs when he must have thought he could be discovered any moment by the farrmer, alerted by hiis dogs ?
Surely, he would have headed away from the farm and the barn and the barking dogs if he had walked 18 kilometres across flat rough terrain precisely to avoid being seen?
On the other hand, if he wanted to strangle himself, would he not have headed towards the farm and barn in order to find an elevatred place or rope or means to stangle himself?
"When any case of hanging, strangulation or throttling comes to the Department of Forensic Medicine for Post-mortem examination, the hyoid bone becomes the most integral part of internal examination at the autopsy table. Many authors and workers in this field have seriously highlighted fracture of hyoid bone. Some have claimed hyoid bone fracture in about 20% cases of hanging. Some have claimed hyoid bone fracture in about 68% cases of hanging"
https://pesquisa.bvsalud.org/gim/resource/enauMartinsNetoViviana/sea-134738
The hyoid bone fracture is a very rare fracture of the hyoid bone, accounting for 0.002% of all fractures in humans. It is commonly associated with strangulation and rarely occurs in isolation. The fracture may be associated with gunshot injury, car accidents or induced vomiting. In 50% of strangulations and 27% of hangings, hyoid fractures occur.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyoid_bone_fracture
That an animal caused such a fracture is very unlikely as animals would have been interested in eating his body as a source of food and not in dragging it over rocks with such violence as to fracture key bones.
Yet, his body does not appear to have been eaten by animals despite showing bites. It decomposed.
His body decomposed but media report his clothes were still relatively in tact despite being exposed to winter weather, rain, snow, sleet for six weeks.
https://www.newsit.gr/ellada/vasilis-kalogirou-ta-anapantita-erotimata-gia-ton-thanato-tou-39xronou/4312508/
https://www.onlarissa.gr/2025/02/20/larisa-vasilis-kalogirou-aftopsia-sto-simeio-oi-astynomikoi-sta-vimata-tou-mechri-tin-perachora-porta-porta-sto-kontino-chorio-vinteo/
The police do not think that he moved along the road network but along the river by rural roads.
But how could he when he did not bring a flashlight and cellphone with him, he wouldn't be able to see more than ten centimeters in front of him in the pitch black winter nights, and so could not have gotten very far.
https://www.onlarissa.gr/2025/02/20/larisa-vasilis-kalogirou-aftopsia-sto-simeio-oi-astynomikoi-sta-vimata-tou-mechri-tin-perachora-porta-porta-sto-kontino-chorio-vinteo/
He lived two to three days after his disappearance but was not spotted by anyone in Larisa or the surroundings in all that time as he allegedly walked 18 kilometres across rough farm land falt terrain with few trees and sparse buildings.
Forensic pathologist Dimitris Galenteris highlighted crucial findings that could shed light on Kalogerou’s fate. “His digestive system indicated that he had survived at least 48 hours after his disappearance and died approximately two to three days later,” Galenteris explained.
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/02/20/death-vassilis-kalogerou/
Was he kept inside a building for 2 to 3 days after he was kidnapped? And then killed? Why was his body kept for nearly six weeks before it was placed on the hill, as Balaskas believes?
Local hunters frequenting the area also did not see the body druing Janruary and earlt February at the spot where it was found and their packs of dogs did not find it.
Larisa is a town of about 200,000 people with low crime, Most people come from the neighbouring villages forming networks of communication. Farmers and hunters criss cross the flat land around Larisa constantly as they go about their business.
Did the people who placed him there chose the spot 600 metres from the barn because they wanted him to be found?
Who would want their victim to be found? And why?
The witness report is consistent with the testimony of a close family friend who said he saw no sign that the 39 yeard old teacher and pyschologist was suicidal and considered his disappearance to be a crime from the beginning.
He clearly was not the victim of a random or opportunistic act by a rapist or a mugger.
A rapist searching for a victim in Alcazar park would have chosen a woman or a child and not a fit and healthy young man for a sexual assault.
A mugger searching for a victim might also have not dared assault a fit and healthy 39 year old but if he did, he would most liely have left his victim knocked down but alive in the park and run away at top speed after stealing the 70 euros in his wallet.
Muggers would not have kidnapped and killed a victim after keeping him for 3 days for 70 euros.
Therefore, it looks less like a random, opportunist act than as a planned, premeditated act carried out by a group.
It would have taken at least about 3 men to overpower him and abduct him, keep him alive for 2 to 3 days and keep his body hidden and then move it to the spot near a barn 18 kilometres away where it was discovered.
But more men or women could have been involved.
That number of people coordinating their actions suggests an organized criminal gang.
Which gang? Was it, for example, a drug gang targetting a top prosecutor who may have put, members of the gang in prison for drug dealing?
What sentences did the prosecutor hand out in the preceding months?
Did she sentence any gang bosses to long prison sentences?
A gang lord and his minions may, it can be argued, have felt a personal and sick satisfaction of revenge. But would they not have feared being caught and going to prison themselves or getting a life sentence for kidnapping the son of a top prosecutor from Larisa a main park so much that it overrode whatever other motive of revenge may have been at play?
A drug lord can still have huge power over his gang even behind bars. But would he risk his gang members being caught trying to abduct the son of the top prosecutor from Larisa main central park with lots of potential witnesses? Would a drug lord not have mulled it over and decided that the risk of his minions being caught outweighed any benefits from killing the son of a prosecutor?
What would such a gang have to gain from killing the son of the prosecutor if their fellow criminals were already in prison and serving their sentence and that could not be changed by a killing?
On the other hand, a gang which fears an upcoming tiral of their gang boss whose outcome it may influence by the crime, by intimidating the prosecutors, may take such a risk. Especially, if there are high placed people involved who could go to prison.
Such an example may be the Tempi cover up trials.
A gang which wants to intimdiate prosecutors to stop them putting their boss in prison might kidnap the son, kill him and put his body on display as a warning.
They could foresee that prosecutors would be intimidated by the disappearance of family members and fear to issue the arrest warrants or file the indicuments which they otherwise would.
And if their boss is a high ranking politician with control over the secret services and spy services, the Larisa forensix services, key police and prosecutors, that booss will have the means to organize an abduction and a cover up.
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