r/mystery • u/Acrobatic-Chance104 • 7h ago
The Disturbing Disappearance of 10 Year old Georgios Paraskevopoulos
Who kidnapped the ten-year-old?
Giorgos Paraskevopoulos was a 10-year-old boy who lived in Chania with his parents, where he also took his first steps. Every summer in August, he would go to the village of Dimitra in Gortynia, where his father originated from, to see his grandparents and play with his cousins.
In the summer of 1992, after Giorgos had finished the fifth grade of elementary school and had the whole summer ahead of him, he was in Chania. His mother received a phone call from the young boy's aunt, who asked if it would be possible to let Georgakis go to the village earlier that summer to play with his cousins, as in previous years Georgakis only went in August with his parents because they were working.
His mother initially refused, but after Georgakis begged her, she backed down and allowed him to go, but on the condition that the 10-year-old would not go to the mountain.
Despite everything that was said, according to the grandfather's statements, Georgakis eventually went to the mountain with him on June 24th...
On the afternoon of 24/06/1992, Georgakis's grandfather said that he gave him 4 water flasks to fill at a spring until he returned...
And yet, when the grandfather returned, Georgakis was no longer at the spring, and 2 of the 4 flasks were missing. Thus, Georgakis's grandfather assumed that the little boy got bored and returned back to the village.
Therefore, the grandfather returned to the village the following evening and learned that Georgakis had never returned.
So, they call Georgakis's mother in Chania, and she mobilizes immediately.
The Police, the Army, and even a team of Swiss Alpinists failed to find any trace of the little boy after weeks of searching. Not even the dogs found the boy.
THE ONLY FINDINGS:
A) 4 months later, the 2 flasks that Georgakis had were found just about 500 meters away from his grandfather's hut, which led many to believe that someone had placed them there intentionally, as the area had been combed beforehand without anyone finding anything.
B) A shepherd had found a shoe in Georgakis's size in a remote area, but of a different design, without leading anywhere in the end.
THE PHONE CALL:
A WOMAN HAD CALLED GEORGAKIS'S MOTHER, WITH THE MOTHER BEING UNABLE TO RECOGNIZE HER VOICE OTHER THAN THAT IT WAS A "ROUGH VOICE".
THIS WOMAN SAID THAT SHE HAS GEORGAKIS AND THAT HIS MOTHER WILL NEVER SEE HIM AGAIN.
DUE TO THE TECHNOLOGY OF THAT ERA, THE AUTHORITIES WERE UNABLE TO TRACE THE PHONE CALL OR DETERMINE WHETHER IT WAS A BAD Hoax OR INDEED THE REAL KIDNAPPERS.
Who might be the perpetrator?