Tom Kruwis
A woman dubbed the "killer ice" by the Austrian media admitted in court on Monday that he killed two men and cut off their body parts with a saw. Then he buried them with cement in the basement of his ice cream shop.
Crying, Goidsargi Estibaliz Carranza Zabala,
who is a citizen of Spain and Mexico, tells the body how to shoot and cut her
ex-husband with a chainsaw in 2008. In 2010, he did the same to his new
partner.
She froze members of the victim's body in the
apartment that doubles as an ice cream shop space. She hid the body in a lump of
concrete that was in the basement of his shop "Schleckeria" in the
Austrian capital.
Gruesome body parts were discovered by chance
when the building was renovated in June 2011. Carranza was arrested a few days
after fleeing to Italy and then extradited.
Carranza shot her ex-husband, Holger Holz,
which she often violent, lazy and tortured and refused to leave the house after
their divorce. She was shot at close range with Holz Beretta .22 caliber pistol
three times in the head.
"I never thought I could do that,"
said Carranza, who wore a gray dress and sunglasses, in a full courtroom.
"It was 3 o'clock in the afternoon. There were kids outside when it was
nice weather, so someone must have heard it.
"I think the police would come. Then my
cell phone rang. It is customer's ice cream, they asked me to come."
After several unsuccessful attempts to dispose
of the body, including the "crazy idea" to burn, Carranza decided to
use a chainsaw.
"I continue to clean up the murder scene
in the days afterward," he told the court.
But his new relationship with Manfred
Hinterberger, an ice cream vendor who was about 20 years older than him,
quickly deteriorated until she felt "like being in prison ... my head like
a smothering with plastic bags."
Before he learned to shoot and kill her
practice to mix the concrete at the local hardware store. Carranza shot him as
he slept after a fight in a state of drunkenness in November 2010 with the same
weapon.
"Manfred turned her face to the wall and
began to snore ... I was so angry. I keep the pistol under the mattress. I
pulled out a gun, cocked and shot him," Carranza said in court.
In the morning Carranza "Manfred
apologized for what he had done." She then dispose of the bodies of
victims.
While in custody, Carranza was two months
pregnant by another man, who married him while in prison in March this year.
The baby was born in January, but the boy named Roland according to his father,
was immediately taken away and is now reportedly being cared for by parents
Carranza in Barcelona.
"He's really different. He was very
gentle, not macho," Carranza said about her new husband. "He will not
take me to a situation as bad as that."
"This woman likes to pretend," said
prosecutor Petra freh time in the packed courtroom on Monday. "He will try
to perform here as someone who behaves well, which is not possible to do
something like that."
"My job is to show another side of
himself ... that he is a cold blooded killer and immoral," said freh.
"Do not be fooled."
A psychiatrist appointed by the court to
examine the behavior say that Carranza, now is in a state of "abnormal
mental," harmful and feel like a "princess ... who wants to 'rescued'
by a man."
The trial is scheduled to last for several
days, with about 50 present and seven expert witnesses to testify.(AFP)
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