Woman dubbed 'The Ice Cold Killer' locked up for life in mental institution for murdering her husband and lover and burying their dismembered bodies in cellar • Ice cream seller Goidsargi Estibaliz 'Esti' Carranza confessed to killings • She shot dead her husband in 2008 and then killed her new partner • Carranza switched on ice cream-making equipment to drown out the noise of the chainsaw as she cut them into pieces • Austria has been gripped by the case amid a sea of publicity By Published: 09:31 GMT, 23 November 2012 Updated: 10:01 GMT, 23 November 2012. • • • • • • A cold-blooded ice-cream parlour owner dubbed the 'ice lady' for the calculated way in which she killed her ex-husband and lover was sentenced to life in a secure mental institution yesterday. Estibaliz Carranza, 34, had confessed to shooting the two men at close range in the back of the head, cutting up their bodies with a chainsaw, freezing them in a deep freeze and later interring them in concrete under the cellar of her store.

Judge Susanne Lehr told a Vienna court her confession and her state of 'considerable psychological damage' were mitigating factors, but her careful planning and her behaviour after the murders counted against her. Locked up for life: Goidsargi Estibaliz Carranza Zabala murdered both her husband and lover and then burying their dismembered bodies in the cellar Carranza, wearing the same grey dress she had worn throughout the four-day trial and donning a pair of glasses, did not react to the unanimous jury verdict and nodded to confirm she had understood the sentence.

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Her lawyer Rudolf Mayer - who also defended Josef Fritzl, who used his daughter as a sex slave - said he would appeal to have the verdict overturned. Share The photogenic Mexican-Spanish immigrant, whose case has attracted extensive interest from Austrian media, shot dead her German ex-husband Holger Holz with a. Live Share Grundig G5. 22-calibre Beretta pistol in 2008 as he sat as his computer. Carranza said he had completely changed after their wedding, turning verbally abusive, lazy and joining a Hare Krishna sect. She complained that he had refused to move out when she had a new lover, even after their divorce. The new lover, ice-cream machine salesman Manfred Hinterberger, suffered the same fate two years later, receiving four shots in the back of the head as he lay in bed snoring after she had tried to start a discussion about his infidelity.