Cyprus police start wellness checks on serial killer's phone contacts

As underwater search for at least two slain victims is ongoing in the serial killer case, police are performing wellness checks on all foreign women whose numbers were stored on a dedicated SIM card belonging to the suspect.
According to local media, police officers have been given the task to contact foreign women whose phone numbers had been stored on a SIM card owned by alleged serial killer Nikos Metaxas. The suspect, who went under the name "Orestis," had reportedly attempted to swallow the SIM card during his arrest last month but a police officer managed to stop him.
The actual phone device is believed to have been destroyed along with possible evidence of suspicious or criminal activity, such as stored conversations, videos, images, and possibly a larger number of contacts stored on the phone's internal memory. Metaxas is believed to have at least three different...