Nikos Metaxas

Nikos Metaxas (Greek: Νίκος Μεταξάς; born in 1984) is a Greek Cypriot army officer and suspected serial killer. He has confessed in writing to the murders of seven people including five women and two children. He has been charged by the Supreme Court of Cyprus with seven life-setences for the premeditated murder of five foreign women and two of their children.

Metaxas has confessed to the murders of five women and two children, all foreigners. All the adults were migrant workers. At least four bodies have been dumped in lakes; two were found in an abandoned mine.

36-year-old Romanian Livia Florentina Bunea and her 8-year-old daughter Elena, both killed in September 2016, are thought to have been the first victims. Two badly decomposed bodies, which the police believe to be those of Bunea and her daughter, have been found stuffed into suitcases and dumped in a lake. A third suitcase which is believed to contain the body of Maricar Valtez Arquiola, a 31-year-old Filipino woman who disappeared in December 2017, has yet to be found. Filipina Mary Rose Tiburcio, a 38-year-old Filipino migrant worker, was the last woman killed but the first body found in an abandoned mine on 14 April 2019 by tourist cyclists. Three bodies have been found naked, bound and wrapped in sheets. The police believe them to be the bodies of two Filipino migrant workers and possibly that of a Nepalese woman, whose body was found at an army shooting range by investigators. The body of another child, six-year-old Filipina Sierra Graze Seucalliuc, has been found on 12 June 2019 dumped in a lake. The child went missing with her mother, Mary Rose Seucalliuc, in May 2018.

Cypriot authorities are facing accusations of not fully investigating the reports when the women were first reported missing.