Estibaliz Carranza

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Goidsargi Estibaliz "Esti" Carranza Zabala , from 2002 to 2008 Goidsargi Estibaliz Holz , (born September 6, 1978 in Mexico City ) is a Spanish - Mexican businesswoman and double murderer . She murdered her husband in 2008 and her partner in 2010 out of greed and deposited their dismembered corpses in a walled-up freezer below her ice cream parlor in Meidling , Vienna . After the bodies were discovered during repair work in June 2011, Carranza fled the capital and shortly afterwards went online with the police in Italy . In the Austrian media she was referred to as an ice lady and one of the most famous personalities in recent Austrian criminal history. Since her conviction, she has been serving a life sentence in the Asten prison in the Upper Austrian market town of the same name . Two books have already been written about her life, one of which she was a contributor to.

Life

Childhood and Early Life in Spain

Goidsargi Estibaliz Carranza Zabala was born in Mexico City , but came to Spain with her family at the age of five and grew up in the Catalan city ​​of Barcelona . Since then she has held both Spanish and Mexican citizenship. Her father Armando Carranza Mendoza Lopez is a locally known author and has written books on the subjects of esotericism , shamanism and the life of the Incas , Mayas and Aztecs . He previously worked as a journalist in Mexico . Her mother Angela Zabala comes from the Basque Country . Carranza also has a younger brother. Even as a child, she built up murder fantasies against her own tyrannical father. She studied at the University of Barcelona at the request of her father Economics . About her difficult relationship with her father, she later said in court:

"We weren't allowed to stand out, not exist."

- Estibaliz Carranza : quoted from

She was in a relationship with her first fiancé for five years. With regard to this relationship, it is known from her later statements that he regarded it as his property and treated it accordingly. After she finished her studies, the boyfriend broke up with her because, unlike her, he was not interested in a serious relationship. The murder fantasies were now directed against her ex-boyfriend and she considered manipulating the brake hoses on his car.

Moved to Germany and married Holger Holz

Shortly afterwards, Carranza abruptly left her Spanish homeland and settled in Germany . She lived for a short time in Munich , where she worked as an au pair with a family of friends. In the new environment Carranza had no teething problems, as she had already learned the German language in her childhood. After finishing her job as an au pair, she stayed in Bavaria and took a job in an ice cream shop in a village near Nuremberg . During this work she also met her first husband, Holger Holz. At the time, Holz was a refrigerator seller, a member of the Hare Krishna religious community, and fourteen years older than them. Weeks after the first meeting, he made her a marriage proposal.

The two finally married in 2002 and moved to his hometown Berlin , where she worked in various jobs. A short time after the wedding, Holz showed his different face, took away all the money she earned as a waitress, and later also the papers when she wanted to go back to Spain. He is also said to have hurt her verbally and physically. She later went back to work in an ice cream shop. There, too, she was humiliated by her superior. Among other things, she was denied toilet visits. The fantasies were now directed against him and she researched the net how the business could best be burned down.

Opening of his own ice cream parlor in Vienna and murder of wood

In 2005 Carranza and Holz went to Vienna , where they jointly opened the Schleckeria ice cream parlor in Oswaldgasse in the Meidling district . Wood participated in this with a higher amount of money. He previously worked as a journalist in Mexico . This was her greatest wish for a long time. During this time, Holz developed a love for weapon technology and first-person shooters . He also forced her to join Hare Krishna as well. Shortly after arriving in the Danube city, she met the ice machine seller Manfred Hinterberger. Two years later, she began a liaison with him and eventually divorced Holger Holz, who, however, stayed in the small, shared apartment.

On April 27, 2008, Carranza finished her job at the ice cream shop and returned to her apartment, where she met wood. Her now ex-husband insulted and denounced her, according to her own statement, for hours in the course of the evening until she finally wanted to put an end to it. She picked up a Beretta pistol and fired a total of three times at wood from behind while he was playing on the computer. The cartridges of the caliber 22 weapon penetrated twice in the back of the head and once in the temple, thereby killing him.

"I was absolutely helpless, I thought I would never get my life back."

- Estibaliz Carranza : quoted from

The actual motive was probably on the one hand that Holz did not want to move out of the shared apartment and, on the other hand, that she had high debts with Holz and the repayment would have cost her the ice cream parlor. She let the dead body sit on the armchair for the next few days. First attempts to destroy the corpse by fire in the shared apartment failed due to the heavy smoke development. A few days later, she bought a chainsaw in a hardware store and had them explain how to use it. At home she used it to cut up the corpse, put it in plastic bags and freeze it first. When she was given notice of the apartment later in autumn 2008, she concreted the plastic packages in tubs. The head was frozen to the bottom of the freezer, so she filled it with concrete too. She then stored the tubs in a cellar compartment under her “Schleckeria” ice cream parlor. She herself took the freezer to the storage location with the help of two unsuspecting acquaintances. She told people who inquired about wood that he had joined a sect in India , which is why he was never reported missing.

Relationship and murder of Manfred Hinterberger

After the death of Holger Holz, Carranza entered into a serious relationship with the Upper Austrian Manfred Hinterberger and moved in with him. Hinterberger also invested a large amount of money in the “Schleckeria”, which it would not have been able to repay without the sale of the ice cream parlor. The togetherness only paused briefly, however, as Hinterberger was often unfaithful to her. She was later described by an ex-significant other as a submissive who did anything for her lover. According to her own statements, she allowed herself to be led to numerous cosmetic operations for Hinterberger, for example a nose reduction, a facelift and the injection of her lips, which were too thin for Hinterberger's views. In addition, he did not want her to have children because she already had grown-up children. Ultimately, she decided to kill him too.

“It's like having a plastic bag over your head. You just have to get out, at that moment you just have to get out. "

- Estibaliz Carranza : quoted from

The second murder came with some preparation, as Carranza learned from her mistakes in the first murder. To improve accuracy, she took special training sessions at the shooting range, while shortly before the planned crime she also lined the floor and walls of the respective room in which the murder was to take place with plastic sheeting so that traces could be removed more easily later.

The meticulously prepared murder was finally carried out on the night of November 21-22, 2010. After a trip together for two, the couple returned to their shared apartment late in the evening. Carranza waited until Hinterberger fell asleep and killed him with four shots in the back of the head at close range. Carranza returns to the usual modus operandi after the murder . At first she left the dead body untouched for a while and then cut it down into its individual parts with the help of a chainsaw. The body parts were then set in concrete like those of ex-husband Holz in a freezer in the basement of the ice cream parlor.

However, Manfred Hinterberger's disappearance did not go unnoticed, and due to repeated inquiries, Carranza reported him missing four days after the murder. In December 2010, she entered into a relationship with Roland R., from whom she became pregnant shortly before her exposure.

Discovery of the murder victims and Carranza's escape

The Carranzas ice cream parlor was located in the same building as other business premises and one of the tenants had to carry out repairs in the basement as part of a water pipe burst. On June 6, 2011, the cellar compartment with number 6, which was locked with a padlock and could not previously be assigned to any of the residents, was broken into by the tenant (in other sources by craftsmen). Upon entering, a handgun, a total of three freezers filled with concrete and also concrete troughs and flower pots were found. According to reports, a lower leg protruded from one of them. Shortly afterwards, the police called in brought various body parts of the dead men to light. Several parts of Hinterberger's body were recovered, but only the skull of wood could be found.

The next day, June 7, 2011, Carranza was approached by a neighbor in her ice cream parlor about the discovery, who also expressed the assumption that the body could be Manfred Hinterberger. She emptied her bank account and safe deposit box, had her trusted cleaner fetch her passport and savings book and took a taxi to the airport. She booked a ticket to Paris, but fled the airport for fear of being arrested by the police before boarding the flight. At that time she was already being searched and investigators were actually already at the gate to arrest her. At the bus station she got into a taxi again, which took her to Italy . She checked into a guesthouse in Tolmezzo under a false name , which she left the next day, and thus escaped the Italian police. Carranza went to Udine and was picked up there by a street artist, who let her spend the night with her. In the end, however, with their extensive interest in the body parts found and their suicidal fantasies, he became skeptical and finally notified the police.

Arrest and first interrogation

On June 10, 2011 at around 7:30 a.m., the handcuffs clicked for Carranza in the northern Italian city. The Austrian authorities immediately submitted an extradition request for the suspect. Meanwhile, a corpse had also been identified as Manfred Hinterberger. Carranza, who was two months pregnant at the time, immediately admitted during the interrogation that she had murdered and disposed of the two men. Shortly after the discovery, the case was in the press in Austria and Spain. It was also speculated how a Spaniard described as small and petite could carry out the exhausting work of dismembering the body, setting some parts in concrete and removing the rest. A possible accomplice who had supported these processes, however, could not be identified to this day.

On June 24th, Carranza was finally extradited to the Austrian judiciary and was placed in custody on suspicion of murder in two cases. On January 11, 2012, Estibaliz Carranza gave birth to a son in the Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital in Favoriten , who was handed over to the father shortly after the birth. The two married in March in the interrogation zone of the Vienna Josefstadt prison .

Psychiatric report

In a psychiatric report at the beginning of July 2012, it was determined that the defendant was "particularly dangerous" and that she was "fundamentally sane" during her actions. The forensic psychiatrist diagnosed Carranza with a serious personality disorder and also expressed her fear that she would commit serious crimes again when she was free. In relationships, she always submitted to her partner completely, but was never happy in this position, and since she was not able to end it, “there were essentially only deviant ways out”. Therefore, before she can enter into a new relationship, she would always have to end the failed one in “her own way” first. Despite the ascertained sanity in the two murders, an admission to an institution for mentally abnormal lawbreakers was recommended.

Trial and Conviction

On September 5, 2012, the Vienna public prosecutor's office brought charges against Estibaliz Carranza for double homicide to the detriment of Holger Holz and Manfred Hinterberger and requested that they be transferred to an institution for mentally abnormal lawbreakers. In the indictment, she was described as a woman with "a downright unique cold-bloodedness and unscrupulousness." After the two murders, she is said to have shown no remorse and not let new companions show it on the outside. The start of the process was scheduled for November 19th and was originally supposed to last three days. The hearing was later extended to four days of trial. Estibaliz Carranza was defended by the very experienced lawyers Werner Tomanek and Rudolf Mayer . The latter already represented the "black widow", the serial killer Elfriede Blauensteiner and the kidnapper and rapist Josef Fritzl .

On the first day of the trial, Carranza made a full confession to all allegations and described her own actions as "disgusting". She had felt “miserable” after the murders, but could not kill herself. She justified her lack of remorse and lack of empathy by taking soothing medication, which made her emotionally cold. In addition, she did not want to arouse pity for her person.

“If I burst into tears, one would say what kind of theater this is. It's disgusting what I did. I'm trying to pull myself together and take the blame on myself. "

- Estibaliz Carranza : quoted from

On November 22, 2012, Carranza was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment for double homicide in an institution for mentally aberrant lawbreakers. She and her lawyers appealed, but the judgment was confirmed by the Higher Regional Court of Vienna on March 20, 2013 and thus became final.

Life in prison and establishment as a media figure

Shortly after entering prison, the media reported on her everyday life in prison and Carranza's life in the Schwarzau prison . She aroused particular fascination for the tabloid press with statements on her part and with her "escapades" in custody. Thus, the Austrian press dug up new scandal stories of the Spaniard almost every week, making her one of the best-known murderers in the German-speaking world. Carranza made itself a brand, staged itself and used its level of fame in Austria to earn money from its story. In November 2014 she published her memoirs, which she wrote together with the journalist Martina Prewein . In this book, which was published by edition a under the name My Two Lives: The True Story of the Ice Lady , she explicitly describes her life, from childhood in Mexico to life in prison. It sold over ten thousand times in a year, but it also met with criticism. For example, at the end of 2015, Carranza's husband criticized the fact that no business should be done with the dead.

In August 2016 it became known that she was being transferred from the Lower Austrian women's prison in Schwarzau to the Asten Prison in the Upper Austrian market town of the same name . However, the relocation was not carried out until the beginning of November 2017. As early as February 2017, two inmates in Schwarzau were sentenced to six and eight months respectively due to the dangerous threat to the Estibaliz Carranza.

In September 2018, a new book on Carranza's life was published. The author Bernhard Salomon had more than a hundred conversations about this and packed this in the work cell 14 The true story of love between the murderess Estibaliz Carranza, known as ice cream lady, and a fellow inmate . Her relationship with fellow inmate Martin L. also became known for the first time after she had previously separated from her husband and child father. When the relationship with him became known, her new boyfriend was transferred to another detention center. But Carranza got engaged to him beforehand. In August 2018, Carranza and her husband Roland R. divorced after six and a half years of marriage. In July 2019 it was announced that Carranza and L. had split up.

reception

The person Estibaliz Carranza served the Austrian writer Bettina Balàka as a direct template for her work The Princess of Arborio , which was published in 2016.

The deeds Carranza are in the US crime - documentation Deadly Women in episode six of the 12th season, titled The Blame Game treated.

literature

  • Estibaliz Carranza, Martina Prewein: My two lives: The true story of the ice cream lady . edition a , Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-99001-114-0 .
  • Bernhard Solomon: Cell 14 The true story of love between the murderess Estibaliz Carranza, known as Eislady, and a fellow inmate . edition a, 2017, ISBN 978-3-99001-293-2
  • Rod Kackley: True Love, Too Late: A Shocking True Crime Story . CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, ISBN 978-1-976291-60-9

Web links

Individual evidence

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  41. ↑ The Blame Game in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Carranza, Estibaliz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carranza Zabala, Goidsargi Estibaliz (maiden name); Wood, Goidsargi Estibaliz (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hispanic-Mexican businesswoman and twin murderer
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico City , Mexico