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buries babies  Mom freezes, buries babies  June 03, 2005 23:29
IST The bodies of four slain infants have been found at an
apartment complex in southern Austria -- two stuffed in a
basement freezer and two entombed in paint buckets filled with
cement, police said Friday.  The infants' 32-year-old mother
confessed to killing them out of despair over her inability to
pay the bills and the fear that having children might drive away
her longtime male partner, investigators told the Austria Press
Agency.  Police at the house where the four infants were found
in the basement freezer and in paint cans.  (AP Photo)Both the
woman and her 38-year-old companion were arrested and placed
under formal investigation for murder.  The killings in the city
of Graz, which authorities said may have begun as long as three
years ago, stunned the tranquil alpine nation, where multiple
homicides and other violent cri