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German family 'fed father to dogs'
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-07-06 08:38

A German woman has been charged with helping her two daughters murder their father amid suspicions the family fed his body to their pet Doberman dogs, police said.

The family reported the dead man, identified as Rudolph R., 52, as missing to the local police in the southern German town of Neuburg in October 2001.

Police confirmed press reports that the fiance of one of the dead man's daughters had already confessed to bludgeoning him with a wooden board, slicing the man's body into pieces and feeding it to the family's seven dogs.

A police spokesman said there were indications, but no concrete proof, that the man's body had been fed to the dogs. He did not provide further details.

Now prosecutors have named the man's 49-year-old widow and her two daughters, aged 17 and 19, as defendants in the case after completing investigations last week, magistrate Sandra Von Dahl told Reuters.

The widow and daughters were not identified.

Press reports said the man was killed after an argument broke out and the family joined forces to beat him to death.



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