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The “Ice Cream Killer”: A Woman Hid the Remains of Her Victims in a Café for Over Two Years
“Esti” Carranza Zabala brutally murdered two men, cut up their bodies and hid them in the basement of an ice cream parlour.
Pictured above is a Spanish-Mexican woman named Goidsargi Estibaliz “Esti” Carranza Zabala, who was arrested in June 2011 for the brutal murders of her ex-husband and boyfriend.
The bodies of Holger Holz (ex-husband) and Manfred Hinterberger (boyfriend) were discovered by workers carrying out maintenance in the ice cream parlour where Carranza worked in Austria, Vienna. Both men had been shot in the back of the head, dismembered with a chainsaw, frozen for a short time and their remains were then encased in blocks of concrete and hidden in the cellar of the dessert café.
The victims had been killed and disposed of in very similar circumstances, yet the murders were carried out two years apart. Carranza, who was 33 years old at the time of her arrest, confessed to killing her husband in 2008 because he refused to move out following their divorce, and said he was violent…
