The police made a gruesome discovery on Monday afternoon in Auerbach, Saxony. The body of a 37-year-old lay in an apartment. Neighbors had previously heard screams and informed the officials.

In the Vogtland district, the police found a 37-year-old dead in her apartment on Monday afternoon. “There is a possibility of a crime,” a police spokesman said early Monday evening.

Neighbors had heard the woman scream in her apartment in Auerbach and then contacted the police, it was said. When officers arrived, the woman was already dead. The results of the autopsy are still pending, it said. They are expected on Tuesday. Until then, the criminal police will investigate “in all directions”.