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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nThe next morning, Holz’s bloodied corpse still lay there. Now, she had to deal with it. Her first idea was to burn the body, but that plan failed quickly. A bottle of alcohol wasn’t nearly enough to incinerate a human body, and the thick smoke that rose from her failed attempt alarmed the neighbors. The fire department arrived, but she managed to brush them off by claiming she had simply burned some food. They left, none the wiser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Realizing she needed a more practical solution, she searched online. The answer was grim: dismemberment. She bought an electric saw from a hardware store, where the salesman even showed her how to use it. Back at home, she began cutting up the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“You’ve probably seen a body being cut up with an electric saw in horror films,” she later said. “But let me tell you, in real life, it’s far worse and much more gruesome.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Piece by piece, she carried Holz’s remains to the ice cream shop’s basement, storing them in a large freezer. She locked the lid and convinced herself that her problem was solved.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nA few days later, her lover, Manfred Hinterberger – twenty years her senior – moved in with her and invested in the business. But it didn’t take long for the freezer’s contents to begin emitting a foul stench. The anxiety returned. What if someone opened the lid?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She needed a permanent fix. Mixing cement and sand, she poured the slurry over the body parts and fashioned a neat concrete bench atop them. Problem solved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When friends and relatives asked about Holz, she had a convenient lie ready: years earlier, he had joined a Hindu sect and become obsessed with its teachings. She told everyone he had moved to India to live with the group. No one questioned her story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her happiness with Manfred didn’t last. She discovered he was seeing other women. Their relationship soured, arguments escalated, and soon, it was clear things were over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Carranza wasn\u2019t the kind of woman who ended relationships peacefully. She didn\u2019t believe in letting lovers walk away to find happiness elsewhere. Murder had worked before. Why not again?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On a cold night in 2010, two years after killing Holz, she watched Manfred sleep beside her, snoring with his back turned. She rose, took out her gun, and fired four bullets into his skull.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This time, she was well-prepared. She built a makeshift tent of plastic sheeting to contain the blood. Then she cut him up with surgical precision, just as she had with Holz. His remains went under a second concrete bench in the same basement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Life returned to normal. Soon, she was dating again\u2014this time a man named Roland. In 2011, Carranza received news that made her heart swell: she was pregnant. It was the happiest moment of her life. But tragically, it was also the beginning of her downfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That same day, while celebrating with Roland, a team of sewer workers was repairing a pipe below the street near the ice cream shop. Many older European cities have interconnected basement tunnels. When workers couldn\u2019t reach the owner of one particular basement\u2014Carranza\u2019s\u2014they broke the lock and began drilling into the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They weren\u2019t prepared for what they found. The broken slabs revealed not just cement and sand, but human limbs\u2014hands, feet, even eyes and noses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
News of the grisly discovery spread quickly. A neighbor told Carranza what had happened, and she immediately realized her secret had been exposed. Luckily, the police hadn\u2019t arrived yet. She grabbed her valuables, emptied her bank account, and headed to the airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the last moment, fearing arrest at the airport, she abandoned the flight plan and rented a car to flee overland to Italy. But police had already identified her and circulated her description across Europe. Days later, she was arrested in northern Italy and extradited to Austria.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDuring her trial, Carranza showed no remorse. She justified her crimes: Holz had belittled and bullied her, refusing to leave after their breakup. Manfred had cheated. But even if her accounts were true, they were only one side of the story. And even if both men had been terrible partners, nothing could justify such calculated and grotesque murders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most relationships are flawed. Many marriages are dull or disappointing. But people don\u2019t respond by killing their partners. They separate, move on, find peace. Carranza chose a darker path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Psychiatrists deemed her dangerously unstable, saying she could kill again if given the chance. In 2012, she was sentenced to two life terms. She remains behind bars to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While in prison, she gave birth to a son\u2014a lifelong dream finally realized. But it didn\u2019t last. The child was taken and given to his father. The couple divorced in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2014, she published her memoirs from prison, recounting her childhood struggles and the murders in shocking detail. The press dubbed her The Ice Cream Killer<\/strong>\u2014a fitting name for a woman as cold as the desserts she once sold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “You’re an ugly woman. Don’t waste your time\u2014you’ll never find another man.” Holz sneered as he turned toward his ex-wife, who stood behind him adjusting her makeup in front of a large mirror. She was getting ready for a date with a new lover. Laughing mockingly, he turned back to his computer, ignoring her completely. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kabbos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kabbos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kabbos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kabbos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kabbos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kabbos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/kabbos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kabbos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kabbos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kabbos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kabbos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}