A former Upstate New York restaurant boss has been sentenced to prison for murdering a young employee. A Saratoga County jury agreed with prosecutors that Georgios Kakavelos, 52, ordered the murder of Allyzibeth Lamont, 22, because Lamont was seeking to report Kakavelos to the authorities for paying her under the table — and without deducting the proper payroll taxes.
The Case
As Law&Crime previously reported, Kakavelos paid another employee, James Duffy, 35, between $1,100 and $1,300 to help him kill Lamont in 2019 and to dump the victim’s dead body in a shallow grave off Exit 13 of the Northway, an interstate highway an hour away in a neighboring county. Lamont died of severe skull fractures and brain damage, testimony revealed; the murder weapons were a baseball bat and a hammer. At sentencing, Judge Jim Murphy III noted that Kakavelos was responsible for crushing Lamont’s body and encasing it in concrete at the burial site in the Town of Malta.
Kakavelos, who prosecutors argued was the mastermind behind the killing, operated the Local No. 9 sub shop on Townsend Avenue, a commercial strip in Johnstown, N.Y., in Fulton County about an hour northwest of Albany. His wife was the business’s official owner. Kakavelos also previously owned two other diners, including one in Saratoga County, where Lamont’s body was eventually found. The crime spree spanned three counties in New York’s Capital District; some of the evidence tampering occurred in Albany County, the jury...
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