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Cypriot police discovered human remains as part of an ongoing investigation into an alleged serial killer suspected of having participated in a killing that killed at least seven women.
Police said the suspect, a career officer of the Cypriot army, confessed to killing five women and six and eight year old girls from two of his victims. He contacted women on an online dating site for several years.
Four bodies have already been found. A rotting female body was found Sunday in a suitcase found in a highly toxic lake located near an abandoned mine in the west of the capital, Nicosia, police sources said.
"After considerable and persistent efforts and many difficulties, a travel case was removed from the lake, containing a woman's body and a block of cement," said Neofytos Shailos, head of the criminal investigations department at Nicosia.
It seemed to belong to an adult, Shailos told reporters.
The tourists stumbled upon the first victim, discovered by chance in an abandoned mine shaft two weeks ago.
A mother and a daughter from Romania were reported missing in September 2016 and the last of her victims from the Philippines, around August 2018.
"Failed the investigation"
The bodies of three women have been discovered in recent days. One of them was identified as Marry Rose Tiburcio, 39, missing in May 2018.
The bodies of the other two victims belong to a woman from the Philippines and a woman from Nepal who went missing last year.
The police were accused of failing to properly investigate the disappearances when they were reported.
In response, the police stated that a restrictive legal framework impeded the ability of the authorities to verify records such as telephone records without a court order, solely on the grounds that there is suspicion of a criminal offense punishable by more five years in prison.
Tiburcio, the first discovered victim, was found on 14 April. His six-year-old daughter Sierra is missing. Almost a week later, a second victim was found in the same mine shaft and April 25, a third at a shooting range located about fifteen kilometers.
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