Police are continuing to appeal for information in the unsolved 1993 murder of Melbourne taxi driver Emanuel Sapountzakis, more than 30 years after his death.
The 26-year-old’s Ford Falcon taxi was found abandoned on Mountain Highway in Bayswater one March morning, locked with its roof lights on and the meter still running at $127.80. Sapountzakis had last logged a fare at 3.29am.
Just over an hour later, his body was discovered in scrubland at “Police Paddocks” in Endeavour Hills, more than 15 kilometres away. He had been shot several times, including in the head. His wife and two-year-old daughter were waiting for him to return home in Clayton.
The motive for the killing remains unknown, but investigators say they are particularly interested in reports that Sapountzakis had, on several occasions, been seen carrying large sums of US currency.
Sapountzakis, whose family migrated to Australia from Brazil in 1971, was working as a taxi driver while studying chemical engineering at Monash University.
Despite a public appeal in 2015, no arrests have been made. Police say they remain hopeful that someone with knowledge of who was responsible, and why, will come forward.
Source: The Advertiser.
