<p>A German couple lured women to their village home with personal contact ads, then trapped, tortured and killed at least two of them, authorities said today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Police said they were not ruling out more deaths from what one newspaper dubbed the "house of horrors", where one woman's body was cut up and burnt in the fireplace.<br /><br />The 46-year-old man, identified by Bild daily as Wilfried W., and his ex-wife, Angelika B., 47, were arrested last week, accused of tormenting a woman through almost two months of captivity.<br /><br />The couple was caught after their car broke down with the badly wounded 41-year-old woman inside. She died hours later in hospital from a head injury.<br /><br />On Tuesday prosecutors and police said the female suspect had admitted to at least one more killing by the couple, and to trapping several more women over the years.<br /><br />The second victim was a 33-year-old woman, whose body the couple had stored in a deep-freezer, then cut into pieces and incinerated in their fireplace.<br /><br />The woman had died on August 1, 2014 as a result of "severe physical abuse", in the village house in the western town of Hoexter, said chief prosecutor Ralf Meyer.<br /><br />Meyer stressed that investigators could not rule out that more people were killed, although police at this stage had no evidence of further deaths.<br /><br />"We are looking for more victims" who survived, said Ralf Oestermann, chief of the homicide division in the nearby city of Bielefeld.<br /><br />He also told a press conference that the male suspect had denied all charges of abuse and torture and had placed all the blame on his ex-wife.<br /><br />Meyer said police had no evidence of sexual abuse in the case.<br /><br />The couple married in 1999 and filed for divorce in 2013, the same year the man married the 33-year-old woman who later died, police said.<br /><br />Oestermann said the male suspect had also "massively abused" his co-accused ex-wife.</p>
<p>A German couple lured women to their village home with personal contact ads, then trapped, tortured and killed at least two of them, authorities said today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Police said they were not ruling out more deaths from what one newspaper dubbed the "house of horrors", where one woman's body was cut up and burnt in the fireplace.<br /><br />The 46-year-old man, identified by Bild daily as Wilfried W., and his ex-wife, Angelika B., 47, were arrested last week, accused of tormenting a woman through almost two months of captivity.<br /><br />The couple was caught after their car broke down with the badly wounded 41-year-old woman inside. She died hours later in hospital from a head injury.<br /><br />On Tuesday prosecutors and police said the female suspect had admitted to at least one more killing by the couple, and to trapping several more women over the years.<br /><br />The second victim was a 33-year-old woman, whose body the couple had stored in a deep-freezer, then cut into pieces and incinerated in their fireplace.<br /><br />The woman had died on August 1, 2014 as a result of "severe physical abuse", in the village house in the western town of Hoexter, said chief prosecutor Ralf Meyer.<br /><br />Meyer stressed that investigators could not rule out that more people were killed, although police at this stage had no evidence of further deaths.<br /><br />"We are looking for more victims" who survived, said Ralf Oestermann, chief of the homicide division in the nearby city of Bielefeld.<br /><br />He also told a press conference that the male suspect had denied all charges of abuse and torture and had placed all the blame on his ex-wife.<br /><br />Meyer said police had no evidence of sexual abuse in the case.<br /><br />The couple married in 1999 and filed for divorce in 2013, the same year the man married the 33-year-old woman who later died, police said.<br /><br />Oestermann said the male suspect had also "massively abused" his co-accused ex-wife.</p>