HORROR: 8 Dead Babies Found in German House

A murder probe has been launched in Germany after the bodies of eight babies were found in a house in the Bavarian town of Wallenfels. Officials did not give any details of the circumstances of their deaths.

DailyMail reports:

Police said a local woman contacted emergency services on Thursday afternoon after finding one body at the flat. Officers then found several more bodies in a room in a single box. Police and prosecutors initially said they believed there were seven bodies. Later on Friday, they said an eighth set of remains had been found – wrapped in towels and plastic bags like the others.

Now police are hunting the 46-year-old mother of the babies – known only as Andrea G – who has gone missing. Police have not yet disclosed whether she is a suspect.

The mother hasn’t been seen since the end of September after a ‘heavy row’ with her partner, according to Bild.

Apparently, the paper added, he was often drunk and, when inebriated, would say to her: ‘I know you have hidden babies’ bodies in the house.’

The woman lived in the house for 18 years and was the owner of a local news kiosk. Police said she and her husband had three children aged between 12 and 13 but she had ‘several’ children from previous relationships – the children thought to be the dead infants discovered in the house of horrors.

Bild newspaper reported: ‘The woman was often pregnant but covered these pregnancies up.’

One local told Bild: ‘Once she said she had had four abortions.’

Neighbours described her as friendly and polite and loving to her children. In summer months she worked as an assistant in the local swimming pool.

Wallenfel Mayor Jens Korn said: ‘Actually they are an ordinary family.’

The man of the house was said to be ‘very active’ in clubs in the small town of 3,000 people and both he and the woman regarded as ‘nice people.’

‘The mother always took good care of her children. Now there is great dismay in Wallenfels, a mourning for the children who were not allowed to live,’ he said.

Autopsies were due to be carried out on the remains on Friday.