'Ice cream killer' dubbed too dangerous for women's prison

The woman dubbed ‘Ice Cream Killer’ is to be moved into a men’s prison in Austria, because authorities say she’s too dangerous to be locked up with other women.

Estibaliz Carranza was sentenced to life behind bars in 2012 for the brutal murder of her husband and her one-time lover in separate attacks.

On both occasions, the 38-year-old shot the men in the head, carved up their bodies with a chainsaw, stored some body parts in the freezer and buried the rest of the remains under her ice cream shop.

Carranza had been held at a women’s prison in Schwarzenau in Lower Austria, but according to UK media, will now be moved to a “special” all-male facility in Asten.

Carranza won’t be the only woman at the new jail, which currently holds 91 men, with authorities set to move another 13 women into the prison.

In 2008 Carranza walked up behind her husband Holger Holz as he sat at a computer and shot him in the back of the head.

Two years later, she killed then-boyfriend Manfred Hinterberger after confronting him over an alleged affair.

It wasn’t until midway through 2011 that tradesmen stumbled across the men’s remains when working on plumbing underneath the ice cream shop.

Carranza was arrested while two-months pregnant to another man, who she has since married during her time in jail.

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