AUSTRIAN authorities say a 63-year-old Vienna man is suspected of killing and dismembering a woman and stashing pieces of her body in his freezer to later eat.

Prosecutor Verena Strnad told reporters on Wednesday that the suspect, whose name wasn’t released, confessed to authorities he killed the unidentified woman in his apartment at the end of March and cut her into pieces.

The woman’s torso, head and other parts were discovered mid-April in the Neusiedler See, a lake southeast of Vienna where the suspect had a cabin and boat.

Austria’s APA news agency reported police dogs found DNA traces near the cabin.

The body parts in the freezer were found during the ensuing search of his apartment.

It was reported by AFP on April 28 that Austrian authorities had arrested a Viennese man over the discovery of a body without head or limbs in Lake Neusiedler, which is popular with water sports enthusiasts.

The female torso, thought to have been there for several months, was found at the bottom of the shallow lake on April 13. Police divers later located the head.

The victim has still not been identified but the Salzburger Nachrichten daily reported that investigators believe she was a Czech or a Slovak prostitute.

The man arrested is thought to have been known to the dead woman. The Neusiedl lake in southeast Austria straddles the border with Hungary

The case comes ten years after the case of 19-year-old Robert Ackermann, another “cannibal killer” that shocked Vienna in 2007.