Overview
- Police announced on November 14 the discovery of a 34-year-old woman and her 10-year-old daughter inside a large freezer hidden in a storeroom of an Innsbruck apartment.
- The pair had been missing since July 2024, after a relative in Germany flagged a loss of contact and suspicious bank activity.
- Two Austrian brothers, aged 55 and 53, were arrested in June 2025 and remain in pretrial custody as the case advances under a formal criminal proceeding.
- Officials said one suspect was the woman’s coworker and had a relationship with her, while the other owns the apartment where the bodies were found.
- The brothers have admitted hiding the bodies but deny killing the victims, describing an accident, as autopsies continue without a confirmed cause of death.