Overview
- Police found the bodies in an Innsbruck apartment on 14 November after the 55-year-old suspect recently acknowledged hiding them.
- The Austrian brothers, aged 55 and 53, are in pre-trial detention in the Innsbruck and Salzburg prisons.
- Investigators say the woman, 34, and her 10-year-old daughter had been missing since July 2024 after visiting a relative in Düsseldorf.
- Detectives report attempts to sell the woman's furniture and jewelry and note small ATM transactions believed to have been used to create false trails.
- Forensic analysis to establish how and when the victims died is ongoing, complicated by severe decomposition after the freezers stopped running during the suspects' custody.