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The Boardwalk Murders — Kosta Fotopoulos

The Boardwalk Murders:Kosta Fotopoulos·Konstantinos "Kosta" Fotopoulos·Mark Kevin Ramsey·Bryan Chase·Lisa Fotopoulos

The case

Kosta Fotopoulos ran Top Shots, a pool hall in Daytona Beach, Florida, and had married into a family whose Joyland Amusement Center sat on the boardwalk. He also ran a counterfeiting operation. When his wife, Lisa Paspalakis, learned about his affair with Deidre Hunt, a twenty-year-old waitress at his club, and raised the idea of divorce, Fotopoulos set out to have her killed for her inheritance and a life insurance policy.

On October 20, 1989, he and Hunt took Kevin Ramsey, a nineteen-year-old former employee threatening to expose the counterfeiting, to a remote firing range. They tied him to a tree, Hunt shot him three times in the chest and once in the head while Fotopoulos worked a video camera, and Fotopoulos fired a last shot. A string of hired men failed before eighteen-year-old Bryan Chase agreed to shoot Lisa for $5,000. On November 4, 1989, Chase came in through a door Fotopoulos had left unlocked and shot Lisa in the head. Fotopoulos shot Chase dead and reported a burglary.

Lisa survived with the bullet still lodged in her brain and testified against her husband. Investigators recovered the Ramsey videotape. Fotopoulos was convicted in 1990 of two counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. Hunt was sentenced to death in September 1990; her guilty pleas were set aside and a 1998 retrial ended in a life sentence.

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Kosta Fotopoulos
Kosta Fotopoulos
Kosta Fotopoulos
Kosta Fotopoulos
Bryan Chase
Bryan Chase
Diedre Hunt
Diedre Hunt
Kosta Fotopoulos
Kosta Fotopoulos
Diedre Hunt
Diedre Hunt
Diedre Hunt
Diedre Hunt
Konstantinos and Lisa Fotopoulos
Konstantinos and Lisa Fotopoulos
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Kosta Fotopoulos
Kosta Fotopoulos
Kosta Fotopoulos
The Boardwalk Murders
The Boardwalk Murders
Kosta Fotopoulos
Kosta Fotopoulos

Where it happened

Daytona Beach, where Kosta Fotopoulos ran his businesses

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