The murder of the Dresden scientist Suzanne Eaton is informed according to findings of the police: A 27-year-old man from the Greek island of Crete has stood the deed, as the investigators in the port city of Chania today announced. The body of the native American was found on Monday last week.
Eaton was from Oakland, California. She worked at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in Dresden.
„He confessed and is being brought before the judiciary,“ a police spokesman said at a press conference in Crete broadcast on television.
Eaton had participated in a meeting of experts in the small port city of Kolymbari and on July 4 had set off on a hike from which she did not return. Hikers found the body in the cave near the village of Maleme, about eight and a half kilometers from Kolymbari.
„I had to do that“
The alleged perpetrator – son of a priest, married, two children – have admitted to having hit the biologist twice with his car. The victim was injured. „I had to do that,“ the man told the police. Nothing works well in his life. The 27-year-old had then raped the woman and thrown the body in a shaft that had been used as a bunker during the Second World War.
The forensic examinations are still in progress. It should be clarified whether the perpetrator Eaton smothered himself or whether she could not breathe because of her rib fractures and died of it.
The police had come on the track of the alleged perpetrator by shooting a surveillance camera, a mobile phone tracking and tire marks.
