{"id":3675,"date":"2025-02-14T02:25:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T02:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/man-kills-wife-then-takes-own-life-in-serres\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T02:25:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T02:25:44","slug":"man-kills-wife-then-takes-own-life-in-serres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/man-kills-wife-then-takes-own-life-in-serres\/","title":{"rendered":"Man kills wife, then takes own life in Serres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1261638\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"first-img article_thumbnail_wrapper\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                                                                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/policecar-thumb-large-thumb-large-320x200.jpg?v=1611920821\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/policecar-thumb-large-thumb-large.jpg?v=1611920821\" alt=\"Man kills wife, then takes own life in Serres\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/policecar-thumb-large-thumb-large.jpg?v=1611920821\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n<p>File photo.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>A 59-year-old man who killed his 52-year-old wife in the village of Sitochori, Serres, in northern Greece, took his own life hours later, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to local reports, the man called police early Thursday morning and confessed to murdering his wife at their home in Sitochori.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found the woman dead. Preliminary reports suggest the man strangled her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following the crime, the suspect fled to a nearby barn, where he reportedly set himself on fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters discovered his body during efforts to extinguish a fire in the makeshift structure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Six firefighters responded to the scene with three vehicles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Autopsies have been ordered for both victims.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/news\/1261638\/man-kills-wife-then-takes-own-life-in-serres\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File photo. A 59-year-old man who killed his 52-year-old wife in the village of Sitochori, Serres, in northern Greece, took his own life hours later, authorities said.\u00a0 According to local reports, the man called police early Thursday morning and confessed to murdering his wife at their home in Sitochori.\u00a0 When officers arrived, they found the &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Man kills wife, then takes own life in Serres\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/man-kills-wife-then-takes-own-life-in-serres\/#more-3675\" aria-label=\"Read more about Man kills wife, then takes own life in Serres\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/policecar-thumb-large-thumb-large.jpg?v=1611920821","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}