Man beheads girlfriend in Greece, is caught after chase

**celeb_2006** · August 3rd, 2008, 05:07 PM

(In other beheading news....)

Man beheads girlfriend, is caught after chase
A 31-year-old man killed his girlfriend on the Greek island of Santorini on Sunday, beheaded her, then fled in a patrol car, a local official said.
During the ensuing chase, the suspect was shot five times by police and ran over two women doctors who were riding a motorcycle before he was caught, the official said.
The suspect, Athanassios Arvanitis, a cook at a local restaurant, is undergoing surgery at an island hospital, said Chrysanthos Roussos, head of the Santorini district on the island.
Neighbors said that, following a heated argument, Arvanitis beheaded his girlfriend's dog with a butcher knife, then killed and beheaded the woman.
The victim, 25-year-old Adamantia Karkali, worked as a teacher at a local village, Angelos Roussos, the mayor of Thira, the island's main town, was quoted as saying by TV station Antenna. Angelos Roussos and Chrysanthos Roussos are not related.
Initially, Arvanitis roamed the village of Vourvoulos exhibiting Karkali's head, neighbors said. Townspeople said they locked themselves in their homes and called the police.
When a policeman tried to handcuff him, the suspect knifed the officer and flung the woman's head into a patrol car, Roussos said. The policeman was only slightly injured, police said.
Arvanitis then made off in a second patrol car and ran over the motorcycle before he was caught, Roussos said. One of the two doctors suffered multiple fractures, Roussos said. The other was uninjured.
As the police fired at Arvanitis to stop him, a stray bullet hit a woman bystander, injuring her slightly, police said.

**Hummus** · August 3rd, 2008, 05:19 PM

Whoa, that dude is crazy.

**Sojiita** · August 3rd, 2008, 05:28 PM

ok..WTF is with the beheadings? Is this one of those things that runs in 3's? Great now we have to wait for one more beheading story.

**Grimmlok** · August 3rd, 2008, 05:41 PM

THANK GOD!

they weren't on a bus.

**Sojiita** · August 3rd, 2008, 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by Grimmlok

THANK GOD!

they weren't on a bus.

We only have two, and there must be three(these things ALWAYS go in threess..) so go cut Ed's abusive crack-making head off and throw it out of your upper floor Arlingtonhaus window!!! Winterpeg will be famous for it's head choppers!

**Rondette** · August 3rd, 2008, 06:41 PM

Good lord.

I mean.....good lord! That is as creepy as the bus thing.

**twitchy** · August 3rd, 2008, 06:42 PM

Originally Posted by Sojiita

We only have two, and there must be three(these things ALWAYS go in threess..)

This wasn't good enough? British girl found dismembered in suitcase in Brazil

**Just Kill Me** · August 3rd, 2008, 06:44 PM

I think that one definitely counts!

What the fuck is wrong with people; do you know how much work is involved in removing a person's head? I don't personally but I watched that Berg video.

DitaPage* · August 3rd, 2008, 06:51 PM

This is crazy. I thought only the Middle East were so uncivilized that they still beheaded people. Apparently not.

**twitchy** · August 3rd, 2008, 06:52 PM

This wasn't a government execution. This was a nutter.

**Sarzy** · August 3rd, 2008, 07:36 PM

Originally Posted by Just Kill Me

I think that one definitely counts!

What the fuck is wrong with people; do you know how much work is involved in removing a person's head? I don't personally but I watched that Berg video.

I'm glad you said that, JKM!

These stories are just so sick.

**McJag** · August 3rd, 2008, 07:40 PM

I hope this is not some new fad.

**Just Kill Me** · August 3rd, 2008, 09:36 PM

Trend watch 2008; in Cosmo's next What's Skanky What's Sexy (that's what it's called, right?) they'll list things like Skanky: Trashing your ex to all your mutual friends.
Sexy: Beheading them!

**Ravenna** · August 4th, 2008, 07:14 AM

I couldn't believe how many people watched that Nick Berg video after having deliberately sought it out and then came crying on message boards about how traumatized they were and how they couldn't sleep that night. Well what did they expect from watching the slow beheading of a live victim on video?? Even hearing about it spooked me for days.

This story is horrifying and creepy, but it doesn't freak me out as much as 'wrong place, wrong time' stories like the one on the bus.

**Rondette** · August 4th, 2008, 07:22 AM

Originally Posted by Ravenna

I couldn't believe how many people watched that Nick Berg video after having deliberately sought it out and then came crying on message boards about how traumatized they were and how they couldn't sleep that night. Well what did they expect from watching the slow beheading of a live victim on video?? Even hearing about it spooked me for days.

This story is horrifying and creepy, but it doesn't freak me out as much as 'wrong place, wrong time' stories like the one on the bus.

I'm a bit of a gore-hound but I couldn't bring myself to watch that video, why would I want to? Sounds absolutely horrifying.