Police find woman's dismembered body in suitcases but there is more

When a local resident found a floating suitcase by

the shore near the town of Gmunden, 50 miles east

of Salzburg in Austria, nothing could have

prepared the unfortunate fellow its gory contents.

The dismembered body of a woman. Promptly, the

police was alerted and they swung into action and

they found two suitcases containing the woman's

dismembered body near the shore of Lake

Traunsee but her head was missing.

A woman's severed head encased in a block of

concrete, was later found after an extensive search

next to a man's body at the bottom of an Austrian

lake, in what police suspect is a murder-suicide.

Authorities said that evidence suggests the man

strangled the woman and dismembered her body

before drowning himself using the concrete block

with her head in.

The hands of the man, whose body showed no

signs of struggle, were tied to bags containing

rocks as well as personal belongings.

The head of the woman, who was between 50 and

70 years old, was discovered after forensic experts

in the city of Salzburg broke open a concrete block

found in one of the bags on the lakebed.

'This makes us primarily think of an 'extended

suicide',' a prosecutor for the nearby town of Wels,

Birgit Ahamer, told a news conference, adding that

initial forensic examinations suggested the woman

had been strangled and the man had drowned.

Police said they could not yet identify the bodies. Photos right below...