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Updated · bbc.co.uk · Aug 1

Greek Police Fast-Track Tests in 38-Year-Old Scot's Suitcase Death, Eye Results Within Days

Updated

Updated · bbc.co.uk · Aug 1

Greek Police Fast-Track Tests in 38-Year-Old Scot's Suitcase Death, Eye Results Within Days

Q: Who sent the chilling texts from Elisabeth-Jane's phone days after she was hidden in a suitcase?

It is not yet known who sent the texts from Elisabeth-Jane Ross’s phone. Greek investigators believe someone else had control of her mobile phone after she died and used it to send messages designed to make it appear she was still alive. Reports say those messages included claims that she needed time alone and was going to a Greek island. Police see that as potentially significant evidence because it may have delayed efforts by friends, family and authorities to realize she was dead. At this stage, police have not named a suspect or publicly identified the sender. Their main lines of inquiry include tracing the “American friends” Ross said she was going to meet in Kypseli, examining phone-location data, reviewing CCTV, and reconstructing her final movements. They are also trying to establish who had possession of the still-missing phone in the days after her death. So the chilling texts appear to have been sent by an unknown person who had Ross’s phone after she died, but investigators have not yet determined or announced who that person was.

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Greek police said toxicology tests in Elisabeth-Jane Ross's death have been made a priority, with results expected within days rather than the usual weeks or months.
Those findings are meant to establish how the 38-year-old Scot died and whether foul play was involved; police have not yet classified the case as murder.
Ross was found dead in a suitcase in an abandoned Kypseli building on July 18 after going missing on July 15, having traveled from Edinburgh to Greece in late June.
Investigators are also trying to identify American friends Ross planned to meet in Kypseli, while her mobile phone reportedly kept transmitting a signal and sending some messages after her death.
The UK Foreign Office, Police Scotland and Scotland's government are supporting her family as Greek authorities continue the investigation.