Overview
- Police recovered the bodies on November 14 from freezers hidden behind a plasterboard partition in an Innsbruck apartment after a suspect disclosed the location two days earlier.
- Two Austrian brothers, aged 55 and 53, remain in pre-trial detention as formal suspects; both deny murder but admit to concealing the remains.
- The cause of death cannot yet be established due to advanced decomposition, which worsened after electricity to the apartment was cut following a suspect's incarceration.
- Investigators cite freezer purchases, movements on the victim’s bank card, sales of her belongings, and messages sent from her phone that did not match her language as key leads.
- The victims disappeared in July 2024 after being picked up in Düsseldorf, and a neighbor later reported loud noises and a child shouting “Mama” from the suspects’ apartment.