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Body found in Athens suitcase identified as British woman Elizabeth Jane Ross

Thursday, 30 July 2026, 06:23 · 1 min read

Greek police have identified the body found in a suitcase in an abandoned building in the Kypseli district of central Athens as Elizabeth Jane Ross, a 38-year-old British woman born in Scotland. Ross had reportedly travelled from the US to Cyprus before arriving in Greece on 29 June, and was last seen by friends on 15 July; a homeless man discovered her remains on 18 July, with a postmortem suggesting she had been dead for eight days prior to that. Authorities are treating the case as a criminal act, though no signs of injury or struggle were found, and Greek homicide investigators — who confirmed her identity through Interpol fingerprint checks and US-provided DNA evidence — have not ruled out UK investigators joining the inquiry.

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The GuardianBody found in suitcase in Athens is that of 38-year-old British woman ↗︎
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