Cypriot police continue to search a toxic man-made lake Police search a toxic man-made lake southwest of the Cypriot capital Nicosia in search of the remaining bodies of a serial killer's victims. The search is focused on two lakes where the killer, identified in Cypriot media as 35-year-old army officer Nicos Metaxas, said he dumped the bodies in a crime that went undetected for nearly three years.