An Upstate New York restaurant manager had been convicted Thursday of perpetrating a horrendous crime against a female employee who planned to make his hidden financial matters known.
22-year-old Allyzibeth Lamont was hit several times with a baseball bat, then shocked with a plastic bag until she passed away at around 7:30 p.m. on October 28, 2019.
She was ambushed at the kitchen of the sub shop where she worked and buried in a shallow grave in Sarasota County.
The jury ruled that the business manager Georgios Kakavelos, 52, and another employee James Duffy, 35, were the murderers caught on surveillance footage from a nearby business loading the young victim’s body into Kakavelos’ Volkswagen.
Duffy testified that Kakavelos paid him more than $1,100 to help get rid of his co-worker who’d been creating troubles and threatening to tell his wife about his under-the-table business.
“Kakavelos could ill afford an investigation into his finances, so he killed Lamont to forever silence her,” First Assistant DA Alan Poremba said.
“We teach our children to speak up when something is not right. That’s exactly what she did. She spoke up when things weren’t right. She just happened to speak up to the wrong individual, and that wrong individual was Georgios Kakavelos, who was willing to commit this heinous, barbaric crime.”
