A 40-year-old man accused of stabbing his 36-year-old wife to death in front of their four children late last week in the central Greece port city of Volos has been given a 48-hour extension – until Tuesday morning – to provide sworn testimony before an investigating magistrate as a suspect facing a charge of intentional homicide.

The suspect, a construction worker originally from Albania, evaded police capture for a day and a half after the particularly heinous murder that took place at the entrance of their Volos apartment building.

He remains jailed.

Three of the four children of the victim and the self-confessed perpetrator of uxoricide are underage, with the eldest being an 18-year-old daughter. All four siblings reportedly witnessed the violent stabbing of their mother in the neck and back with a sharp barbecue utensil.
The suspect was arrested 30 hours after the slaying roughly 300 meters from his apartment, hiding in the bushes around an abandoned private parking lot. CCTV footage along the route he took reportedly narrowed the area from where he vanished from cameras. A citizen’s phone call to police later pinpointed his exact location.

Media reports state that his initial statements to arresting officers was that his wife, who also hailed from Albania, was cheating on him and that this sent him into a fury. He also reportedly appeared unrepentant upon his arrest.

Police said the suspect did not have a registered history of domestic violence in the past, although he had been charged with a count of participation in a criminal organization and drug-related offenses.
Last June he was committed to a public clinic for psychiatric evaluation on a prosecutor’s order, where he reportedly stayed for an undisclosed period to receive treatment.