Pallini Satanists Sacrifice and Shock Greece
By: Lisa Marie Fuqua
Tags: Culture, Justice, True Crime, History, Greece

This story takes us to the Pallini region of Athens and brings us face to face with three of Satan’s Disciples.

Dimitra Marietti, Asimakis Katsoulas, and Emmanuil Dimitrokalis (left to right) | via Chania Post

All For Satan in Pallini

In the early ’90s, friends, Asimakis Katsoulas 21, and Emmanuil Dimitrokalis 19, started to act on their desires to serve Satan. Until this time, they had merely read books, listened to Blackened Death Metal, and fantasize about what they wanted to do. But, the time had come to start gathering others.

Both Katsoulas and Dimitrokalis were attractive, charming young men and easily drew others to them. One such girl was Dimitra Marietti, 18.

Their first Satanic Acts involved ritual ceremonies that would eventually turn into an orgy between the twenty-some members. The Sect seemed content to kill animals for a while, but all of that changed in the summer of 1992.

Dora Syropoulou | via Thema News

The First Satanic Sacrifice

On August 27, 1992, Katsoulas, the leader, his second Dimitrokalis, and their shared girlfriend, Marietti, took their devotion to the next level. They thought a human sacrifice in the name of Satan would grow their power and influence.

They had decided in advance that they would sacrifice Dora Syropoulou, who was only 14 years old. Dora was drawn to the older members and wanted to join them in practicing “white magic” that’s what they had led her to believe.

On the night of the sacrifice, they promised to induct her into their Sect. Instead, they made her strip naked, where they handcuffed her and forced her to kneel on the ground holding a candle.

She was probably scared, but at this point, still thinking it was part of the ceremony. That is until they used a log to smash her in the head. Badly injured but still alive, they resorted to strangling her to death.

As her bloody body lay on the ground, the men then raped and sodomized her. After, they poured accelerant on her corpse and set it on fire. The fire quickly grew out of control, and a large section of forest in Athens was destroyed.

Dora Spyropoulou’s body would be discovered in the ash. The police investigated but had no answers to why she was in the woods or who had murdered her.

Garoufallia Giourga | via Thema News

The Second Satanic Sacrifice

Eight months after their first sacrifice, the group decided it was time to make another. The first had been planned out in advance, but this time they wanted to be spontaneous and pick someone at random.

One night in April 1993, the trio was out driving and passed a bus stop. There sat Garoufallia Giourga, 28, waiting for the bus to take her home after working a shift at a hotel.

Somehow Katsoulas and Dimitrokalis convinced Garoufallia that they were police officers and that she needed to get into their car. They then drove her to an abandoned winery in the woods.

There they forced her to strip. With Garoufallia naked, they handcuffed her and then took turns raping her. When they were done, Katsoulas used a rock to cave in her head.

After this murder, the three had grown so bold that they couldn’t help themselves and told friends outside the Sect what they had accomplished.

Asimakis Katsoulas, Emmanuil Dimitrokalis, and Dimitra Marietti (left to right) | via Facebook Serial Killer Material Page

Their Undoing

Dora Syropoulou’s family had no idea what had happened to their daughter and were desperate to find out. The police had drawn a blank, and the case started to grow cold.

That’s when Dora’s family hired a private investigator. He found answers where the police had not.

After talking with Dora’s friends and others in the area the last night she was known to be alive, the investigator started to put the pieces together. And they all seemed to lead to Asimakis Katsoulas, Emmanuil Dimitrokalis, and Dimitra Marietti.

When he looked into the three closer, he started hearing rumors that they were bragging about killing another woman, who died the same way Dora had.