Μake us preferred on Google According to reports on Mega Channel’s Live News program, the suspect is a young man known to the woman. Investigators are believed to have gathered significant evidence, including security camera footage reportedly showing the suitcase being abandoned at the location where the body was found.
Later press reports identified the prime suspect as hailing from Nea Guinea.
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How authorities identified the suspect
Police initially examined a man from Cameroon who had hosted the woman during her first night in Athens but reportedly found no evidence linking him to the case.
Police subsequently focused on two or three foreign nationals from her circle of acquaintances. Two were ruled out, while attention turned to a third man who reportedly lives near the location where the suitcase was discovered.
Histological and toxicological tests are pending and are expected to help establish the precise cause of death.
The woman, identified in Greek media reports as “Aramata”, came to Greece from the African country Burkina Faso in 2024, aged 22. She was employed as a cleaner at a hotel on the Cyclades Island of Folegandros during the past summer season, before returning to Athens on Oct. 28.
The initial forensic assessment placed her death approximately five to seven days before her body was discovered on Nov. 8, suggesting she died around Nov. 1.
Similar case
Her body was in an advanced state of decomposition and the initial postmortem examination did not establish the cause of death.
A 26-year-old Afghan national was arrested in connection with her death on Aug. 2 and charged with intentional homicide, robbery and weapons offenses. Police said CCTV footage and digital evidence helped identify the suspect, who confessed to placing Ross’ body in the suitcase and transporting it to the abandoned building.
