The Cruel Affair of Caroline Crouch

[Music] hey you and welcome my name is mike and in this whole video uh what we are doing today we're going to greece yeah finally says the 0.1 percent of people from greece who uh watch me you got your islands sun a lot of blue uh sky c flag and you've got a lot of history i mean i suppose so it's kind of everywhere uh you know has a lot of history they just decided to jot it down and this story will add to that history though maybe not you know in the way that they would want outside of athens sly is the suburb of glycanra and by the way i really must say i'm gonna just like butcher uh some greek names so look forward to that but i'm not the only butcher so let's give this story a go [Music] athens is where we are chilling today you know uh named after the goddess athena the birthplace of democracy for some not all it's got all the hits you know all the good ones in its history and i will go through them now one by one phew all right not about cover is that [Music] people have been chilling in that city for over 5 000 years if you can believe that and they sure as scatter that [ __ ] in greek left their mark as much as the gods have and this story we have here it plays out uh very much like one of those good old great tragedies i keep hearing so much about not really but this one actually takes place in greece so i guess that's like bonus points glycanra is a suburb of athens located to the north east not a whole lot to say about it other than it was home to a house that was home to charlemos babis anagnostopoulos and caroline crouch guess which one was greek and which one was british it was from the home that they shared together with their 11th month old baby daughter lydia that babis as he went by tiled 1-0-0 that's the greek 9-1-1 [Music] please he dialed it with his nose that was on the 11th of may 2021 there had been a home invasion burglars they broke in they tortured babus and caroline for their money for their valuables and um well when the police arrived at house that early morning they would find caroline ah dead she had been murdered what happened it was believed was that in the early morning hours of the 11th of may at about 4am three men some armed with handguns broke into the house in that affluent suburb via the cellar window a fourth stood outside to keep sketch caroline who was 19 years old 2 months shy of 20 was sleeping in the attic with her baby babist 33 was sleeping downstairs he was tied to a chair caroline was tortured then strangled the family dog was also killed roxy had been had been hung had been hung from the banister on the stairs thankfully the baby was unharmed they made off with about 10-ish grand euros and um about 20 grand worth of jewelry and eventually babas he managed to kind of worm his way out he called the police at 6am they arrived they untied babis and then they found caroline upstairs face down on her bed with her 11 month old daughter crying beside her [ __ ] pretty dark pretty disturbing and not that's at all something that occurs often in uh in greek society sure [ __ ] hope not [Music] babis and caroline had been living together in that three-story housing like hannah for about two years at this point babis to pay the bills he was a commercial helicopter pilot flying around the islands that got the [ __ ] out of the aegean sea caroline she was a college student studying at the university of paris studying stats baby that's statistics caroline was the daughter of a british father filipino mother and born in 2001 in liverpool uk she ran into babas you know for the they first met on the island of alanis that's where she had moved as a child the whole gang and moved there they met when caroline she was still in school she was 16 and babis was uh 29 so be weird he would even fly over her school in his helicopter to impress her jesus christ dude they married in portugal while on holiday in 2019 before moving to glycanara adopting little roxy the dog four cats and a baby and their life seemed absolutely fantastic you know from the outside you know lovely house lovely wife lovely life caroline she was mad into kickboxing babists athened virgil bikes and things were great and neighbors they would say they were a lovely you know lovely young couple they had it all and they weren't going to give it back until may 2021 foreign be the robbers had made off with so much in cash uh the reason babas and caroline had that much cash was they were they're in the process of buying some land uh outside of the city because they wanted to build their dream house baby and um i think a lot of greeks don't keep their money in banks because mit don't know if you heard but about over a decade ago they had a spot a spot of trouble there they had a fear that you might not be able to get it when you need to when they broke in fabus cooperated the cash was in a monopoly box great or [ __ ] placed uh to hide your commercial you decide caroline she didn't uh try to cooperate though she tried to fight them off and that's um well why things ended the way they did these bad bastards didn't take uh too kind it's kind of odd though that you know a young she was 19 years old just mother to an 11 month old baby fighting off these four guys who had guns kind of you know would go against what you would think her motherly instincts would be you know give them the [ __ ] and let them get out of here nobody needs to get hurt that was weird baba said though these [ __ ] when they broke in they tied him up they blindfolded him but he could hear them talking he couldn't see them but he could hear them and he said they spoke with accents accents you say i'm they spoke in broken greek so you can see where this is going and so the hunt was on it was less than a week later that an arrest was made right on the border between greece and bulgaria in a place called eros almost 900 kilometers away by car a 43 year old georgian not the state not the font the country he was arrested over the murder of caroline crouch now he was charged with carrying out another burglary in a house about 20 minutes from caroline's where he along with four others broke into the house of an elderly couple and robbed them very much like caroline's right they give away like they broke in they tied up with the elderly couple the el ones who lived there and forced them to hand over all their [ __ ] so like well you know no [ __ ] but he wasn't a killer it wasn't terribly violent what happened to that other couple so to go from that to murder well that's what they say but you know what it only takes one and at the same time police announced they were looking for a recently released albanian man uh in connection with what happened to to caroline then a few days later footage was released footage of a suspicious car and motorbike driving away from the scene this was around the time babis said they would have fled the home after killing caroline and the dog and a neighbor said that that bike had been in the area days before circling the block scoping out the place covert like the local gangs especially you know foreign local gangs albanian georgian they were thoroughly examined uh by the police they were they're cracking skulls this case was huge it was so high profile this the murder of caroline crouch had gripped greece by the balls but no progress uh was being made foreign foreign days went by and after multiple interviews the police were unable to link the georgian man to the murder and although the home of babis and caroline had cctv it wasn't on the night of as for forensics on caroline's body nada in fact forensics in the entire house well these intruders were magicians under her fingernails it was conclusive and there were no real marks on her body to speak of babis would post this on instagram a loving memory to his dear departed it seems like the life they had together one of vacations luxuries and love had been destroyed by some other [Music] well the pictures they babasan caroline posted on social media you know they weren't the real story of course not it's usual thing you know what you post on social media you're actually that's not reality that's not the real life they were living people of course you know they only posts what they want you to see you know they don't uh post pictures of the boring and [ __ ] times which we all have without exception and without exception was caroline crouch babis and caroline had been in marriage counseling together and the fact that they weren't sleeping together can be a clue things weren't great and she kept a diary she wrote parts of her diary in code uh so i guess babas couldn't read it but we can 31st of december 2019 i argued with babus again this time a lot i hit him i cursed him and he broke the door the only thing i wanted was for him to ask if i was well when i woke up i'm thinking about leaving going to my sister i don't know if i can continue with babis i love him so much that i can't leave him even if this relationship is harming me from her diary it seems she had wanted to leave for for a long time the only thing stopping her was that she didn't want her daughter to grow up without her parents being together some of the codes she would use uh it's been reported uh so she would use the letter m a lot which police thought meant malaccas which basically means wanker then d g gamma a dangerous [ __ ] guy xx uh xylo as in beating pp polio pustus uh dirty old f word yeah boom with the g's in it it seems they argued quite a lot and she had to be careful about what she said hence the diary where she could you know and let's go back to something earlier the cctv inside their house this was one of the last shots babis with their daughter this was taken around 1am and then hours before the intruders broke in the sd card had been removed from the camera sometime it was over a month after the murder while babis and caroline's family were at a memorial for young caroline here is hugging her mother while they're at that memorial service for her on alanisus police arrived and said babis you gotta come in babis he was a lot like another greek an ancient greek herodotus a teller of stories uh baba's he kind of had his own the histories and also a father of lies his story just didn't quite add up didn't make much sense in fact nothing he said did and the police had found proof of it babis and caroline had gotten into an argument over custody she had been texting a friend saying she was leaving the early morning of the 11th of may 2021 and then he killed her babus was arrested and charged with his wife's murder this is babis ananya stopolos comforting his mother-in-law this week her memorial service was held on thursday and that is when anonystopolis was detained by police and told that they had fresh evidence against him he asked what's going on and his reaction is kind of strange and awkward he told them that the memorial isn't over and asked the officers to let him attend the memorial until the end they refused to let him and told him for his own good to hide his cell phone and not call anyone and that they have to leave immediately caroline's murder in may shocked greece the examination of some evidence and especially the digital evidence that we've confiscated from the site gave us some clues especially the evidence that showed movement of objects in particular the husband's phone during the same time he had testified that he was tied for weeks greece has been shocked by the specter of a violent murderous gang if the police are right then this horrendous crime instead comes down to the fury of just one man caroline had been wearing a smart watch which you know tracks your pulse and all that kind of [ __ ] and it showed that at 4 am she had been sleeping soundly her pulse went from sleeping to spiking in seconds and 11 minutes later it flatlined this was an hour before he said they broke in and babis also had on his phone you know a step tracker step counter and it showed that while he said he was tied up tied to a chair the phone step counter showed he'd been walk around his house quite a bit that entire night he staged the scene killed his own dog and placed his child next to her dead mother to make the scene more uh grisly and then two hours later he called the police during an eight-hour interrogation he broke down and confessed he said it got physical she pushed and punched and his judgment became quote blurred and so he strangled her he said she refused to apologize to him after an argument over their daughter presumably presumably custody issues as she wanted to leave and well he suffocated her he said he smothered caroline to death by pressing her face against a pillow for five minutes and you could hear her scream as he did so he then said he concocted the whole armed robbery scenario as he didn't want lydia to lose both her parents almost six weeks after caroline's death he was in cuffs his trial began a year later he argued wasn't premeditated and plan out jack [ __ ] you know uh caroline disney cuffs and he just snapped and strangled her and then didn't know what to do so he killed his dog [ __ ] malaccus am i right after all she was a kickboxer i could knock seven shades of shite out of him he said he was aiming for the lesser charge of manslaughter not murder a crime of passion but the prosecution they disputed that because caroline she was asleep when he attacked and they could tell fear her you know so well yeah he was also charged with murdering their dog roxy [ __ ] hanging it from the stairs a would take the stand for 10 hours saying he lost control but it wasn't enough to convince the judge and the jury he was found guilty and received a life sentence for premeditated murder in greece that's no parole for 20 years also a jail term of 11 years and 6 months for the brutal murder of roxy and a fine of 21 000 euros and so and the probably the most high profile case in recent greek criminal history tragic one uh tragically once again we seek it just divorce just [ __ ] divorce he was an okay liar uh people from the start did doubt his story killer is murdering the wife and the dog and leaving the husband isn't the usual her fighting back with a baby was also not terribly usual this was just not something that happened in greece and kind of how he acted seems kind of lame to me he should have watched some more of those greek tragedies uh you know get some tips on acting you know instead of uh well maybe creating one [Music] thank you so much for watching um i really appreciate you taking the time watching me watching this guy this little hawaiian shirt uh here go on i'll see you as always real soon in the next old video uh but until then you know um just please please look after yourselves on each other [Music] thanks i love you [Music] you

Channel: That Chapter

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Keywords: that chapter, caroline crouch, babis anagnostopoulos

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Length: 21min 47sec (1307 seconds)

Published: Fri May 27 2022