Austrian police find body parts in Spanish woman's ice cream parlor

Police in Austria are searching for a 32-year-old Spanish woman- the owner of a Vienna ice cream parlor- after finding body parts inside two ice chests in her shop's basement.

An international arrest warrant was issued for Goidsargi Estibaliz C., who disappeared on Tuesday and is thought to have headed for Barcelona. Next to the ice chests, which were filled with cement, police found two telescopic rifles, a pistol inside a woman's handbag and a diary written in Spanish.

Witnesses said that Establiz suddenly left the ice cream parlor after a client told her that the police had found the dismembered bodies the day before. "I had never seen her with that expression on her face," said Erkan Köksal, the owner of a hair salon next door. "That wasn't the person that I knew. She was always friendly and kind with everyone. She was shaking and very nervous," he told Efe news agency.

It was Köksal who made the grim discovery. During work to install an air conditioning system for his salon, workers went to the basement the two shops shared. "She knew we were working there and would come two or three times a day to check to see what part of the basement we were at," he said. It was on Monday when they found the weapons and the ice chests.

The sensationalist Austrian press speculated that one of the bodies belonged to an ex-boyfriend, who disappeared around November. "When he went missing, his brother came from Spain to search for him. Maybe there is a connection," Köksal recalled. "I just pray she is not guilty and only disappeared because she got scared."