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Estibaliz Carranza, seen here with her lawyers, is accused of murdering her husband and lover and setting their sawn-up body parts in concrete in the cellar of her ice cream parlor.
VIENNA - A former ice cream parlor owner confessed in court on Monday to shooting, sawing up and freezing both her ex-husband and her lover, and burying them under the cellar of her store in Vienna.
Estibaliz Carranza, a 34-year-old Mexican-Spanish woman dubbed the "Ice Lady" by Austrian media, told a court that both men had "demeaned" her; her ex-husband by yelling at her and making fun of her poor German, her lover by being unfaithful.
In both cases, she said she had shot her victim with a .22 caliber Beretta pistol, chopped up the body with a chain saw, put it in a freezer at the parlor, and eventually buried it downstairs in the cellar, the Austria Press Agency reported.
Prosecutor Petra Freh described the defendant, who appeared before a packed court wearing a grey dress and flanked by prison guards and her celebrity defense lawyer Rudolf Mayer, as "ice-cold" and a "ticking time bomb".
"It's clear that the defendant has two faces," Freh said, warning that Carranza could kill again.
Carranza told the court the nature of her husband, Holger Holz, had completely changed after their wedding, and that matters had got worse when they were evicted from their apartment and moved into the ice cream shop, and Holz joined the Hare Krishna movement.
"He slept until 10 o'clock and came at 11 o'clock. We had no ice cream. He did nothing. He didn't want to get a grip," she said.
Even after she started a relationship with ice cream machine salesman Manfred Hinterberger and divorced Holz, he refused to move out, she told the court on Monday.
One Sunday, after an argument about the issue, she said she had shot Holz twice in the back of the head and once in the temple as he sat at his computer.
'Behind the facade'
Mayer, who unsuccessfully defended Austria's most notorious living criminal Josef Fritzl in 2009, said the psychiatrist's report on Carranza showed that her danger to society could be reduced "to zero" with proper treatment.
He warned the jury not to be influenced by negative portrayals in the Austrian media, which have had a field day with the story of the Hispanic immigrant and her many lovers.
"The defense is determined ... that the jury do not accept the picture that been has given of her as ice-cold, unfeeling, unscrupulous, capable of anything, but rather that they recognize what is behind this facade," he told journalists.
Fritzl was sentenced to life imprisonment for incarcerating his daughter in the basement of his family home for 24 years, during which he physically assaulted and raped her, fathering seven children.
Hinterberger left Carranza shortly after her divorce but turned up on the doorstep of the salon with a suitcase a year and a half later after being thrown out by his girlfriend.
She said she had taken him back, but then found sex messages on his phone and his profile on a dating site.
'I was so furious'
On the way home from an evening out with friends, where he had flirted with another woman, she had wanted to talk about it but he had simply shouted at her and then gone to bed, she said.
"He turned to the wall and began snoring. He just turned around and that was the end of the matter for him. I was so furious," Carranza said.
She then described how she had reached under the mattress for the same pistol she had used to kill her ex-husband, loaded it, and shot him in his sleep.
Again, she chopped up his body, deep-froze the parts and eventually buried them under the icecream parlor, where they were found by chance during maintenance work last year.
Carranza was extradited from Italy, two months pregnant by another man, to face charges in Austria.
The trial is due to run until Thursday.
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What's even more F'd up is she hid sawed up body parts next to the ice cream she was selling.
Eeeww man! What if blood dripped onto the (Cherry) ice cream and she sold it. WTF man!
@ Rightthewrong - I believe you are correct sir, especially since she admitted it. LOL.
@ Creek Dog - Hilarious!
This chick is clearly mentally unstable and should be locked away for life. I am still amazed at people who are able to kill and then chop people up! Crazy world. I just don't get it.
wow, good thing they arrested her when she did or the guy who just got her pregnant probably would have been the next one chopped up!
What I dont get is the people that defend them actually being able to sleep at night. And worse yet the judges that buy into this bs and give them a few years in a mental hospital and thats it. This story reminds me of the book I read, The Ice Man. Creepy.
can ya' say ...i didn't like the bloody ice cream...with out sound'n like ya' from england...
Ice Ice Baby....
Hispanic woman who starts out great in the sack, then reveals her true crazy self...honey, they wrote an article about you.
Yes, she has two faces alright. A sociopathic/psychopath. A Mrs. Jeckle Mrs. Hyde.
I read the article several times; so, what did she do wrong? I don't understand why she is arrested!
My Sweet Lord !
"I didn't order sauce."
"I didn't put any on."
Sort of like an elimination competition but with men, "I'm sorry Holger, but you have been chopped".
she sounds like she lived...a life full of holes...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raUcMun-l0M&feature=related
The Ice Queen is going to have a little ice cube.
Zheng? Seriously? What part of KILLED her huband and chopped his body up into pieces was hard to understand? And then, let's think a second, then she KILLED her extramarital lover and chopped his body into pieces? I don't want to assume you are stupid, but it is hard to say if you are being facetious.
And yes okay, the article said ex, blah de blah, so no extramarital affair, blah de blah. She chopped up a bunch of guys after she shot them in the head Same difference.
let me get this right; she shot and killed her LOVER for being UNFAITHFUL,
WTF
Shilodance...I think Zeng was just joking. Relax..
Shilodance,
Yeah, Zeng just wanted to see who would write a comment such as yours. Just messin' around.
ILuvUSMC,
Good morning sunshine! ;-)
What a cold bitch
@ Creek Dog -
Good morning darlin! ;-)
She didn't follow Dexter's code... now she is caught!
ILuvUSMC...
I think you know little or nothing about Latin women.... Even my 70 year old house keeper from Spain requires a fair share of TLC..... don't set her off or you'll pay. Thank god she looks out for me. Nice one to have at your back in that case.
How does that old adage go, "Don't go to be with anyone crazier than yourself."?
Yikes!!!
The police knew right away - by the piles of cherries and sprinkles on the floor.
I was beginning to think we had cornered the market on nutjobs........
LOL...I was thinking the same. She does look crazy though.
I dunno. Slap some makeup on that puppy and she would be up in the hot bracket. Definitely a tap-it and run situation though.
She was no ice queen in the sack - crazy women who run on emotions are always good in the sack. You want Ice Queen, just find any woman who has been married for 10 years...not tonight, I don't need an excuse.
"He slept... We had no ice cream. He did nothing. He didn't want to get a grip."
WOW! Best defense EVER ! lol
Ooh look! The photo of her at the top could be the movie poster, and she could be played by Angelina Jolie. Just dust the actress down with lots of bland makeup and she's the ice lady.
I called it first, so I get credit for the whole thing. Right guys? Guys?
By the time Hollywood gets around to makiing a movie out of this farce, Angelina will be in her nineties.
Estibaliz Carranza, a 34-year-old Mexican-Spanish woman dubbed the "Ice Lady" by Austrian media, told a court that both men had "demeaned" her; her ex-husband by yelling at her and making fun of her poor German, her lover by being unfaithful.
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Killed her lover for being "unfaithful" and here she is MARRIED?
Wow, just wow!
I was thinking the same thing. Lover...unfaithful? What, was he cheating on her with his own wife?
Timing isn't indicated here but cheaters can be especially jealous married or unmarried. This may play out with the Paula Broadwell affair, however we will only know when we read her book.
I have to say that is one bada$$ woman to pull that off....sick....but bada$$. You can tell that that is one woman you should cross the street to avoid by just looking at her.
And if you read all the way to the end - she is pregnant by ANOTHER man. Well we know at least he didn't tick her off - he's alive!
A total whack job, a true ice queen if there ever was one. She lived in the same place where she SAWED UP her ex-husband after she divorced him, took him back in then killed him. NOT A DANGER TO SOCIETY? I wouldn't trust her in prison. I would worry about the safety of prison inmates. And for heaven's sake - don't serve tough steak - no knives!
According to other sources, the timelime was that she divorced him (it does say she killed her "ex-husband", so she was not married), told him she had a new lover, her refused to move out, then she killed him.
I am not defending her, but it is not clear that she was also a cheater, and hypocrite...just a VERY COLD-BLOODED killer.
my thinking exactly. LOL
Sounds like she's a graduate from the General Petreaus / Paula Broadwell school of marriage.
Dumbazz re-read the article - she was divorced.
dmiller; the lover and ex had a thing going on!
Watch Penelope Cruz in Volver...it's been done before...
Another CSI episode in the making.
Note to self, Internet dating may be a bad idea and you may go to pieces afterwards.......
I guess men won't be falling apart over her like they used to.
IXLR8- would you like to meet for ice cream sometime?
Yeah, I'll have the soylent green ice cream...but why does my bowl look like a half of a coconut?
That's funny
Ew! Lol!
spartacus1976- thanks for making me laugh out loud- first time today.
She's kind of cute. I'd do her, but wear my running shoes to bed.
and a flack jacket and helmet.
And a Prison Shank guard vest.
Just remember Bob and Weave, Bob and Weave......harder to hit a moving target.
Good one, Jay-1660872! LOL!!
Or sleep with one eye open
Has anyone noticed that all these insane stories are ALWAYS in Austria?
What the heck is in the water there???
they must import it from florida...
The Hitler gene pool originated in Austria.
Um, Wisconsin.
The italian guy just got the break of his life. Dead body parts coming to rescue just in time.
Gives a whole new meaning to the term "cold cuts".
And their assessment of her being released again , after psychological treatment. Thank God this is Europe. Or right, and I would have loved to see Jeffery Dalmer released, cured and seeing him as a server in KFC, asking if I wanted white or dark meat....NOT>
Let me get this straight.. she is able to handle a chainsaw to cut them into freezable peices, but used a dinky little 22 to kill them?
Steve,
The 22 is quiet and I'll put my paycheck on the fact that she used an electric chain saw. No noise, no emissions inside a basement and anyone can use it.
I guess a dremel was too small.
lol beakeeper :D
could someone please send me her phone number she doesn't look guilty
She has a nice rack, though.
This chick is Bat-Sh*t crazy. I hope she is locked away forever.
Oh, I don't know. I've been exasperated by a stupid boyfriend or two. He needs to thank his lucky stars that the butcher knife was in the dishwasher during his whiny little tirades, or so help me, I'd have hacked that look right off his face. I, however, took the more traditional path of dumping the boy, changing the locks, and telling his mother all about it. (That last one is to seal the deal. Once his mother hates you, the relationship is over.) Guns and chainsaws are too messy.
I'm guessing the ice lady's other relationships sorta "fell to pieces" eh?....
This woman makes me ashamed for being a woman. She should be locked away with absolutely no possibility of parole.
This woman makes you ashamed for being a woman? What planet do you live on? Gimme a break. How many men have killed women?
Yeah, we men are way more horrible than women, statistically speaking. Good catch, Julia.
Of course they could ship her down to Afghanistan. I here they have soccer stadiums just for women.
there is alot of women who kill men too, watch snapped so stfu julia & ken...
yah.....need to check in the basement concrete.
Good thing she didn't own a crematorium.
Ewww! What flavors of ice cream was she serving? Blood orange with a finger cookie on top?
Other flavors, "Sole Food", "Elbow Macaroni and Head Cheese", "Rump Roast Ripple".
Ben & Jerry.
Baskin Robbins 31 organ ice cream
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" in regards to the boyfriend. With the husband, he should of listened in regards to making fun of the accent, we women don't take to kindly to that. Relieved the third guy has escaped the wrath but in all seriousness, what will become of the poor child she is carrying?
You mean her little ice cube?
Just think....no boundaries in her head..........She must be a hottie in bed and have some wild, primal orgasms!
Damn...do not piss her off - whoa!
She needs either life in prison or the death penalty. I don't care which.
Perhaps she has invented a new Ben & Jerry's flavor: Cellar Dweller Delight
Nah! It's Cellar Dweller Feller!
Sounds like she cleared the earth of two SOB's....
yeah, but Don, how many people would be left on earth if being an sob or just a b (for the ladies) was an offense punishable by death? not enough to keep the grid running, i'm sure. I'd be one dead sob, i can tell you that!!
You should hook up with her,Donny-Boy. You and her sound like a match made in Hell.
This would make a good creepy movie except for the fact that two innocent people were murderd by this sociopath.
On the next episode of Deadly Women...
Give her the double tap and be done with it.
Not too many women are good with concrete.
Ha! Good one! Then again, if a guy helps her, who buries the last guy. There will always be one she must freeze...
Hm. A gun, a chainsaw, poring concrete... what the heck was she doing in the ice cream business..
maybe a career in construction or a lumberjack would have been a better outlet for her..
buried them up side down in freezer...dang...the hulk ain't got nothing on this girl...
Good one Agarbeau!
Even funnier would be a profile for her on a dating service...you know,something like-
"34 year old single Spanish gal, looking for a down-to-earth type of guy . Must luv ice cream and chain saws..."
If you buy a scoop there and she asks if you would like chopped nuts on that,,,,, think twice!
Especially if they're walnuts.
Or cement floor nuts.