> The man arrested in Italy over the Easey Street murders – one of Victoria’s most brutal unsolved killings – was a student at a school where one of the victims taught.
> Perry Kouroumblis, now 65, was a student at Collingwood High School – now called Collingwood College – where Susan Bartlett was an arts and crafts teacher.
> […]
> More than a week after the bodies were discovered, Kouroumblis was pulled over by local constable and later homicide detective Ron Iddles, who found a knife in a scabbard in the boot of his car.
> Kouroumblis, then a teenager, said he had found it on Collingwood railway tracks on January 10, between 10.20pm and 11pm. That was 90 minutes after the two women were last seen alive.
> Blood on the knife was found to be human and matched A positive, the same blood type as Armstrong’s.
> According to author and crime reporter Tom Prior in his book, The Trusted Men, the inquest accepted a statement from Kouroumblis but could not question him because he had absconded while facing burglary charges.
> “Perry, said by police to be ‘in smoke’, was on the run to escape burglary charges. Perry had been questioned on other matters some days after the murders, police said. A bloodstained knife with a long blade had been found in a scabbard in the boot of the car,” Prior wrote.
> The inquest was held in July 1977, the same month Kouroumblis’ parents sold their home on Bendigo Street, Collingwood – three streets away from Easey Street.
> The parents dropped off the electoral roll in 1980 and are believed to have later returned to Greece. It is not known if their children went with them. Perry “Dingo” Kouroumblis, Australian-born, also moved to Greece before returning to Victoria.
> When approached by cold case detectives in 2017 to provide DNA over the Easey Street murders, he headed to Greece on a “short holiday” and then refused to return.
> […]
> Police said Kouroumblis was arrested in the early hours of Friday Melbourne time at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci Rome Fiumicino Airport. He had been living in Greece but could not be arrested there as under local laws, charges must be laid within 20 years of the alleged offence.
> Attempts through diplomatic channels to have him returned to Melbourne failed, and he was put on an international watch list that led to his arrest in Rome.
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> The man arrested in Italy over the Easey Street murders – one of Victoria’s most brutal unsolved killings – was a student at a school where one of the victims taught.
> Perry Kouroumblis, now 65, was a student at Collingwood High School – now called Collingwood College – where Susan Bartlett was an arts and crafts teacher.
> […]
> More than a week after the bodies were discovered, Kouroumblis was pulled over by local constable and later homicide detective Ron Iddles, who found a knife in a scabbard in the boot of his car.
> Kouroumblis, then a teenager, said he had found it on Collingwood railway tracks on January 10, between 10.20pm and 11pm. That was 90 minutes after the two women were last seen alive.
> Blood on the knife was found to be human and matched A positive, the same blood type as Armstrong’s.
> According to author and crime reporter Tom Prior in his book, The Trusted Men, the inquest accepted a statement from Kouroumblis but could not question him because he had absconded while facing burglary charges.
> “Perry, said by police to be ‘in smoke’, was on the run to escape burglary charges. Perry had been questioned on other matters some days after the murders, police said. A bloodstained knife with a long blade had been found in a scabbard in the boot of the car,” Prior wrote.
> The inquest was held in July 1977, the same month Kouroumblis’ parents sold their home on Bendigo Street, Collingwood – three streets away from Easey Street.
> The parents dropped off the electoral roll in 1980 and are believed to have later returned to Greece. It is not known if their children went with them. Perry “Dingo” Kouroumblis, Australian-born, also moved to Greece before returning to Victoria.
> When approached by cold case detectives in 2017 to provide DNA over the Easey Street murders, he headed to Greece on a “short holiday” and then refused to return.
> […]
> Police said Kouroumblis was arrested in the early hours of Friday Melbourne time at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci Rome Fiumicino Airport. He had been living in Greece but could not be arrested there as under local laws, charges must be laid within 20 years of the alleged offence.
> Attempts through diplomatic channels to have him returned to Melbourne failed, and he was put on an international watch list that led to his arrest in Rome.