Panayiotis Yamarellos (, 19??-2006), also called as Panos Yamarellos/Giamarellos, was a

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retired

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professor of

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and arguably the most famous

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in Greece, based in

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. He was for many years the Head of the Medical Examiners of

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. He has received various awards for his work in the field of medical jurisprudence and published thousands of projects and works in Greece and abroad. He has been involved in hundreds of death cases in Greece as a

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, with most famous to be the crime of a man who killed and dismembered his fiancee in 1987, the case of

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Romiopoulos' suspicious death in 1997 and the case of Monk Vissarion Korkoliacos. Panayiotis Yamarellos died of heart failure in hospital "Evagelismos", Athens, on April 28, 2006.Εφυγε ο Παναγιώτης Γιαμαρέλλος
flash.gr, 29 April 2006, retrieved 29 August 2020.

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