The remains of a woman, discovered in a refrigerator floating on the Albert Canal near Liege, have been identified as those of 74-year-old woman from Jemeppe-sur-Meuse in Liège Province. Shortly after the discover of some of the woman’s remains in the fridge that was floating on the canal, more of her bodyparts were discovered in a skip at Wandre (Liège Province). The woman's 35-year-old son has since been arrested. He was just about to leave Zaventem Airport for South Korea.
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Son arrested after 74-year-old woman’s remains are found in fridge floating in canal
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Earlier this week, a passer-by saw a refrigerator floating on the Albert Canal, a waterway between Antwerp and Liège, near Hermalle-sous-Argenteau. The fridge was pulled to the banks of the canal. Inside the fridge were the arms and the legs of a woman.
The police immediately linked the grizzly find a link to a strange call they had received 10 days earlier, in which an apparently drunk man reported that someone in Hermalle-sous-Argenteau had murdered his mother, cut her into pieces and then put her bodyparts into a refrigerator.
The police visited the drunken caller who told them that he had heard about the woman’s murder from another person who was also under the influence of alcohol. The police went to the woman's flat, but everything seemed fine there. A neighbour told them that the 74-year-old was on holiday in Italy.
After the discovery and identification of the body parts the police immediately tried to trace the woman’s son. He was arrested at Zaventem Airport while trying to fly to South Korea.
The 35-year-old has been charged with murder and having unlawfully disposed of a body. Nothing is known about the possible motive. He is said to have killed his mother on 10 July.