Update (July 16): Police on Crete have said that a local man “motivated by sexual satisfaction” has confessed to raping and murdering Eaton, CBS News reports.
Update (July 11): Local authorities in Crete told CBS News that they believe Suzanne Eaton was strangled to death and that more than one person may have been involved in the crime. There are currently no suspects. A coroner told CBS that Eaton's death was “100 percent” murder.
Authorities have found the body of American scientist Suzanne Eaton, 59, in a cave on the Greek Island of Crete yesterday (July 8), CBS News reports.
Eaton, a molecular biologist at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in Dresden, Germany, and a professor at the Biotechnology Center of the Technical University of Dresden, was in Greece to attend a conference. She was reported missing last week; colleagues believe she had gone ...
