Crime

Woman killed in violent hotel room 'exorcism'

Police have arrested five relatives of a woman found beaten and choked to death in what appears to have been a violent "exorcism" in Frankfurt on Saturday.

blood

Murder squad called to undertaker's car

A police murder squad was called to a parked car in a town in western Germany this week after blood was reportedly seen dripping from it. A body was found in the vehicle, but the driver was just doing his job.

Police

Police find corpse watching TV

Police broke into an apartment in central Germany to find a woman's corpse sitting in front of a flickering TV - six months after she had died.

Police

Woman's body pulled out of frozen cesspit

Police are appealing for help to identify the body of a woman who was pulled out of a frozen cesspit in Munich on Friday evening.

Crime

Police find missing woman set in concrete

Police found the body of a woman near Bonn on Wednesday set in concrete and hidden behind a wall, five years after she went missing.

Cologne

Graveyard cremates wrong body in mix-up

A graveyard in Cologne cremated a woman who was supposed to be buried after it mixed up two bodies, city authorities admitted on Wednesday. The family of the deceased went to the police after the woman's coffin disappeared.