Body of dismembered woman found in lake Fertő

A woman’s dismembered body and several body parts were found on 13 April in Lake Fertő, Austria, reports Index.hu. The police are currently running DNA tests. It is yet unknown whose body it is.

Facts

On 14 April, Burgenland.orf.at reported that a dismembered body was found on the Western bank of Lake Fertő, near the city of Rust, Austria. The dismembered body was found near the reeds by a passer-by around 11:30 a.m. on 13 April.

The woman’s legs, forearms and head were cut off. Police immediately started looking for the remaining parts of the body, and the woman’s head was eventually found in the evening. Since then, police also found a thigh, a dismembered arm without a hand, and a leg.

The police says that the body parts must have been in the river for months.

Speculations

It is yet unknown whose body it is, but the Austrian police have already started running the DNA tests. However, Hungarian tabloids have been writing about the case a lot, and how it might lead back to Hungary.