Horror as mother’s severed HANDS are found by German motorway and her baby is discovered left outside monastery
By OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER[1]
Published: 12:18, 18 November 2025 | Updated: 13:15, 18 November 2025
German police are probing a gruesome mystery after a woman's severed hands were found on a motorway - and her baby was discovered alive hours later outside a monastery.
The remains were spotted on the A45 near Olpe in North Rhine-Westphalia after a driver reported seeing what looked like human body parts on the road.
Officers arrived to find two severed woman's hands and immediately closed the motorway in both directions.
Around 70 miles away, monks at the Coptic Orthodox monastery in Kroffelbach, Hesse, found a baby left in a stroller outside their gates.
The child was unharmed and appeared to have been placed somewhere it would be found quickly.
According to Bild, fingerprints identified the dismembered hands as belonging to a young Eritrean woman living in asylum accomodation in Bonn.
She is reportedly the baby's mother, according to local media.
The woman had not been reported missing and investigators say it remains unclear whether she is still alive.
German police are probing a gruesome mystery after a woman's severed hands were found on a motorway - and her baby was discovered alive hours later outside a monastery.
The remains were spotted on the A45 near Olpe in North Rhine-Westphalia (pictured)
Monks at the Coptic Orthodox monastery in Kroffelbach, Hesse (pictured), found a baby left in a stroller outside their gates
Police are now searching for her partner, the baby's father, who has vanished.
Detectives have not confirmed if he is a suspect but say they urgently need to find him.
No further body parts have been found despite extensive searches along the motorway and nearby woodland.
Prosecutors have refused to disclose the exact number of remains discovered but investigators have ruled out a traffic accident, describing the injuries as deliberate.
Officers searched the women's room at her asylum hostel but found no signs of violence at the accommodation, according to German media.
The A45 has since reopened, but homicide detectives say the investigation continues 'at full intensity' as they try to establish how the woman's severed hands ended up on a motorway while her baby was abandoned outside a monastery.
References
- ^ OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER (www.dailymail.co.uk)