On the morning of July 4, an American marketing professor was walking towards his ex-wife’s house in Athens to pick up their two young children. It should have been an unremarkable, if strained visit – the couple had apparently been disputing the terms of custody arrangements.

Months before Przemyslaw Jeziorski, a marketing professor from the University of California, Berkeley, was killed, he filed a restraining order against his ex-wife.

Greek officials say the broad-daylight attack came one day after a custody hearing over the victim's 10-year-old twins.