A person accused of two “grotesque” unsolved killings in 1977 has been extradited from Italy and can seem in an Australian courtroom Wednesday, police stated.
Perry Kouroumblis, 65, has been charged with killing two ladies in an virtually 50-year-old chilly case dubbed the “Easey Street” murders.
The twin Australian-Greek citizen was arrested at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci Airport in September after he was named in an Interpol purple discover, and has been held in jail since.
Victoria Police said he was despatched again to Australia late Tuesday night and can be interviewed by detectives earlier than showing in courtroom Wednesday afternoon.
“The man will formally be charged with two counts of homicide and one rely of rape throughout this courtroom look,” they stated in an announcement.
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The our bodies of Suzanne Armstrong, 27, and Susan Bartlett, 28, have been found at their home in Easey Street, Melbourne, on January 13, 1977, with a number of stab wounds. The pair had final been seen alive on the night of January 10, 1977.
Armstrong had been raped. Her then 16-month-old son “was left unhurt and had been unattended in his cot when police situated their our bodies,” police stated in a statement.
“It was a fully grotesque, horrific, frenzied murder — a number of stabbings,” Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Shane Patton stated after the arrest in September.
Detectives in 2017 began finishing up DNA assessments on dozens of suspects interviewed within the preliminary investigation.
Kouroumblis allegedly moved to Greece a short while after he was approached to offer a pattern.
Police provided an Aus$1 million (US $680,000) reward for data serving to clear up one of many state’s most notorious chilly circumstances.
“Over the previous 4 a long time, a big and tireless investigation into the murders has been performed by detectives from the Homicide Squad,” police stated Wednesday.
