Greek police are questioning a suspect in the murder of the American biologist who was found dead in an abandoned World War II bunker on the island of Crete last week. The suspect is a 27-year-old man from Kissamos, a town about 20 miles away from Chania, where Suzanne Eaton was attending a conference
Greek police are questioning a suspect in the murder of the American biologist who was found dead in an abandoned World War II bunker on the island of Crete last week.
A high-level police source who spoke to ABC News on the condition of anonymity said the suspect claimed he committed the murder and intentionally hit Eaton with his car. Eaton, a U.S. citizen and a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, was in Crete to attend a conference and vanished on July 2.
Eaton fought for her life when she was attacked with someone with a knife, a police source told ABC News. Her body had substantial injuries from a knife that was"defensive" in nature, the source said.Coroner Antonis Papadomanolakis told Greece's ANT1 News that"something complicated happened" during Eaton's death, stating that it was"not immediate" and"there was duration involved.
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