Couple held for killings in ‘house of horrors’
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A GERMAN couple lured women to their village home with personal contact ads, then trapped, tortured and killed at least two of them, authorities said yesterday.
Police said they were not ruling out more deaths from what one newspaper dubbed the “house of horrors,” where one woman’s body was cut up and burnt in the fireplace.
The 46-year-old man, identified by Bild daily as Wilfried W, and his ex-wife, Angelika B, 47, were arrested last week, accused of tormenting a 41-year-old woman through almost two months of captivity.
The couple was caught after their car broke down with the badly wounded victim inside. She died hours later in hospital from a head injury.
Prosecutors and police said yesterday the female suspect had admitted to at least one more killing by the couple, and to trapping several other women over the years.
The second victim was a 33-year-old woman, whose body the couple had stored in a deep-freezer, then cut into pieces and incinerated in their fireplace.
The woman died on August 1, 2014 as a result of “severe physical abuse,” in the village house in the western town of Hoexter, said chief prosecutor Ralf Meyer.
Investigators could not rule out that more people were killed, although police at this stage had no evidence of further deaths, he said.
“We are looking for more victims” who survived, said Ralf Oestermann, chief of the homicide division in the nearby city of Bielefeld.
He also told a press conference that the male suspect had denied all charges of abuse and torture.
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