Lawyers representing the 65-year-old Italian man charged in the high-profile double homicide in Logos, near the Greek city of Aigio, are awaiting the medical examiner’s final report before filing a request to lift his pretrial detention. According to reports, the latest evidence gathered by the Hellenic Police’s Organized Crime Unit—often referred to in local media as the “Greek FBI”—appears to challenge key assumptions in the case.

One of the main findings raising questions among homicide investigators concerns injuries found on the hands of the 54-year-old woman, according to local news outlet Flamis.gr. Scratches discovered on her wrist were reexamined and have now been classified as “hesitation wounds”—injuries commonly self-inflicted by individuals before delivering a fatal blow to themselves.

Initially, those marks had been interpreted as defensive wounds, strengthening the theory that the Italian suspect had killed the woman. However, more recent assessments by forensic specialists indicate that they were hesitation wounds that appear to have preceded what may have been a suicide.

According to forensic experts, most hesitation wounds are superficial because people attempting to harm themselves often hesitate before carrying out a more decisive act. The injury believed to have caused the woman’s death was a single stab wound to the heart. Investigators are examining this finding closely, as the woman was right-handed while all of her injuries were located on the left side of her body.

Homicide detectives are now awaiting the medical examiner’s final report, which is expected to either confirm or refute the assessment that the injuries were hesitation wounds. The forensic examiner is also expected to determine which specific injuries caused the 54-year-old’s death.

The latest findings add to a growing body of evidence that has further complicated the investigation.

The 65-year-old Italian suspect has maintained that the deaths resulted from an argument between the woman and her son, insisting that he was unaware of what had happened because he had been asleep on the living room couch.

Although investigators initially rejected that account, toxicology tests showed that the Italian man had used cannabis and sleeping pills, which authorities say could explain his unusually deep sleep. At the same time, according to police sources, investigators found no fingerprints or DNA belonging to the 65-year-old on the weapons or at the location where the bodies of the mother and son were discovered.