A scientist was killed and abandoned in a Nazi bunker of the Second World War

An American scientist, who went to the Greek island of Crete for a conference, was found dead in an abandoned Nazi bunker from the Second World War. As confirmed by the police this Thursday, It was a murder.

The victim has been identified as Suzanne Eaton, nail molecular biologist at the Max Planck Institute of the University of Dresden. His body was found Monday in the city of Chania. The last time they saw it, it was July 2nd.

In the forensic report that he consulted AFP the specialists ruled that he died of natural causes. "It was a criminal act," they stressed. In this sense, they specified that their killer He smothered it by covering his mouth and nose.

The remains of Eaton were abandoned in a cave used by German troops to store ammunition after the Battle of Crete in 1941.

This bunker is a 17-minute drive from where Eaton was to lecture at the Orthodox University in the municipality of Platanias. This area is surrounded by vegetation and weeds. For this reason, agents do not have easy access to the tunnel entrance.

At first, the scientist's family thought that a heat stroke had forced her to take refuge in this cave or that she had left to flee. However, investigators have already verified that it was a homicide.