Anastazja Rubińska, a 27-year-old Polish woman from Wrocław, traveled to the Greek island of Kos in 2023 to work the tourist season at a local hotel. She left home one day and never returned. Six days later, her naked body was found wrapped in a sheet, dumped near a salt marsh area.
Investigators determined she had been kidnapped, raped, and strangled to death. CCTV footage had captured her socializing with a group of South Asian workers before she was last seen riding on a scooter to the home of Salahuddin S., a 32-year-old Bangladeshi migrant who had been living on the island for over a decade.
When police arrested him, he had fresh scratches across his face. Anastazja had fought back. His phone search history from the night of her death included searches on how to confuse police, how to remove fingerprints from a body, and how to make a corpse impossible to identify.
A Greek court later sentenced Salahuddin to life imprisonment for the abduction, rape, and murder. Throughout the trial, he maintained his innocence. The court did not believe him.
Anastazja had texted her boyfriend that night asking him to pick her up because she felt unsafe. Minutes later, she sent another message saying everything was fine and that someone would drive her home. That was one of the last things she ever sent.
She was 27. She went to Kos to work and build something for herself. She deserved to come home.
RIP, Anastazja.
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Anastazja Rubińska, a 27-year-old Polish woman from Wrocław, traveled to the Greek island of Kos in 2023 to work the tou...
Written on 11/15/2026