“Technologically, no device has been made so far that can replace the nose of an animal and especially a trained dog” stated at RES-EMP Evangelos Alexandris, his instructor Echoof Belgian shepherdwhich he succeeded yesterday to locate the body of 31-year-old Babis K. at Messolonghi, whose traces have been missing since January 5.

As Mr. Alexandris explained, following a request from the relatives to the Messolonghi prosecutor’s office, appointed the same expert witness as head of the “Anubis Coldcase K9” team to participate with trained dogs in research.

Finally yesterday, early afternoon, the body was located by dead missing people and human remains detection dog Echo.

The scene was secured, the area cordoned off and the competent employee of EL.AS was called to the place where the group was operating in order to protect her demarcated scene until the arrival of the competent bodies conducting the preliminary investigation and the main investigation.

He found the body after two days of searching

“With the guidance of the police authorities, we have narrowed down the search area and we started last Saturday with a total of 3 sniffer dogs. The field was neither easy nor difficult, only on the first day it was very strong wind which made our work difficult.

Finally, yesterday, Echo spotted it corpse after two days of investigations. He stood at the scene and gave me a kinematic and audio alert,” says Mr. Alexandris.

The Hellenic Philanthropic Society, with its relevant announcement, expressed its intention to reward the particular scout dog and its chief trainer. But Mr. Alexandris, answering a question about how he judges the intention of Filozoiki, is categorical: “The award belongs to the family of the victim who was so patient. We were just doing our job…”