Eirini Mourtzoukou, the 25-year-old woman who has confessed to the murders of four children — including her own two children, a friend’s child, and her younger sister — is set to appear before an examining magistrate on Sunday to provide her formal testimony.
According to exclusive reporting by MEGA and journalist Ioanna Mandrou, Mourtzoukou is expected to reiterate her earlier confession and present new information not previously made public. While her testimony will formally address three of the murders, the 2014 killing of her younger sister is not part of this specific investigation.
Sources say Mourtzoukou will implicate additional individuals who may have been aware of her obsessive behaviour. Meanwhile, a separate medical investigation into the death of a child named Panayiotakis is expected to be released in the coming days, with media sources warning of disturbing revelations.
A criminal investigation has now been launched into the Patras Forensic Service, following allegations that coroners may have failed to properly examine past child deaths — including those of the victims linked to Mourtzoukou and the high-profile case of Roula Pispirigou.
Patras’ chief appellate prosecutor Nikolaos Nikolaou has ordered an urgent preliminary inquiry to determine whether forensic staff committed any prosecutable offences, such as misconduct, issuing false reports, or negligent certification of deaths.
In response to growing scrutiny and new revelations, Greece’s Minister for Justice, Giorgos Floridis, has suspended the operation of the Patras Forensic Service. The decision cites multiple concerns, including that:
One of its forensic doctors has died;
Its former head is under disciplinary suspension;
Another coroner has resigned;
And a fourth has been directly linked to the Mourtzoukou case.
Until the Patras facility is restructured and fully restaffed, any new forensic cases in the region will be handled by the Corinth Forensic Service.
